Andy Serkis

Andrew Clement Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his motion capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for computer-generated characters such as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in the Planet of the Apes reboot series (2011–2017), Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock in Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin (2011), Baloo in his self-directed film Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) and Supreme Leader Snoke in the Star Wars sequel trilogy films The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017), also portraying Kino Loy in the Star Wars Disney+ series Andor (2022).

Serkis’s film work in motion capture has been critically acclaimed. He has received an Empire Award and two Saturn Awards for his motion-capture acting. He earned a BAFTA and a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of serial killer Ian Brady in the British television film Longford (2006). He was nominated for a BAFTA for his portrayal of new wave and punk rock musician Ian Dury in the biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010). In 2020, Serkis received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. In 2021, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for The Letter for the King (2020).

Serkis portrayed Ulysses Klaue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Black Panther (2018), as well as the Disney+ series What If…? (2021). He also played Alfred Pennyworth in The Batman (2022). Serkis has his own production company and motion-capture workshop, The Imaginarium, in London, which he used for Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. He made his directorial debut with Imaginarium’s 2017 film Breathe and also directed Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021).

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Known For

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Not in library

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Not in library

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003

Avengers: Age of Ultron Not in library

Avengers: Age of Ultron

2015

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Not in library

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002

Black Panther Not in library

Black Panther

2018

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Not in library

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2015

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Not in library

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012

The Prestige Not in library

The Prestige

2006

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Not in library

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

2017

Rise of the Planet of the Apes Not in library

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

2011

Acting

2027 The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum as Gollum / Smeagol
2027 Untitled The Batman Sequel as Alfred
2026 Animal Farm as Old Major / Mr. Jones / Rooster (voice) In Library
2026 Young Washington as General Edward Braddock
2024 Hitpig! as Newscaster (voice)
2024 Venom: The Last Dance as Knull (voice)
2023 Luther: The Fallen Sun as David Robey
2023 Creature as (voice)
2023 Blue Whales: Return of the Giants as Narrator (voice)
2022 Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look as Kino Loy (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022 The Batman as Alfred
2022 Andor as Kino Loy (3 episodes)
2021 SAS: Red Notice as George Clements
2021 What If...? as Ulysses Klaue (voice) (1 episode)
2021 Animal as Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)
2020 A Christmas Carol as Marley's Ghost (voice) / Old Joe (voice)
2020 Once Upon a Time in Iraq: Fallujah as Narrator
2020 Home Movie: The Princess Bride as Count Rugen (1 episode)
2020 The Savoy as Self (1 episode)
2020 Reunited Apart as Self (1 episode)
2020 Once Upon a Time in Iraq as Narrator (5 episodes)
2019 Long Shot as Parker Wembley
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as Snoke (voice)
2019 FX's A Christmas Carol as Ghost of Christmas Past
2019 The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor as Self
2018 Black Panther as Ulysses Klaue
2018 Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle as Baloo (voice)
2018 The Director and the Jedi as Self
2018 Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen as Self
2018 Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors as Self - Presenter (2 episodes)
2018 GQ Presents: Iconic Characters as Self (1 episode)
2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedi as Snoke
2017 War for the Planet of the Apes as Caesar
2016 Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey as Self
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Supreme Leader Snoke
2015 We Are Stars as Narrator (voice)
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron as Ulysses Klaue
2015 Fungus The Bogeyman
2015 The Appendices, Part Eleven: The Gathering Storm as Self
2015 The Appendices, Part Twelve: Here at Journey's End as Self
2015 Fungus the Bogeyman as Narrator (3 episodes)
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self (1 episode)
2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes as Caesar
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self (1 episode)
2014 The Wil Wheaton Project as Self (1 episode)
2013 The Magnificent Lion Boy as Umberto Farini
2013 The Frame as Caesar (1 episode)
2013 The Last Leg as Self (1 episode)
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as Gollum
2012 London: The Modern Babylon as Spoken Quotations (voice)
2012 The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World as Self - Narrator (3 episodes)
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes as Caesar
2011 The Adventures of Tintin as Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock (voice)
2011 Death of a Superhero as Dr. Adrian King
2011 Wild Bill as Glen
2011 Arthur Christmas as Lead Elf (voice)
2011 The Jonathan Ross Show as Self (1 episode)
2010 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll as Ian Dury
2010 Brighton Rock as Mr. Colleoni
2010 Burke & Hare as William Hare
2010 The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge as Eadweard Muybridge
2010 Accused as Liam Black (1 episode)
2008 Inkheart as Capricorn
2008 The Cottage as David
2008 Einstein and Eddington as Albert Einstein
2008 Little Dorrit as Rigaud (14 episodes)
2007 Sugarhouse as Hoodwink
2007 Extraordinary Rendition as Maro, Interrogator
2007 Underground as The Driver (Narrator)
2007 Monkey Life as Self (Voice) (14 episodes)
2007 The Graham Norton Show as Self (1 episode)
2006 The Prestige as Alley
2006 Stormbreaker as Mr. Grin
2006 Longford as Ian Brady
2006 Flushed Away as Spike (voice)
2006 Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong' as Self
2006 Stingray as Stingray (voice)
2006 Simon Schama's Power of Art
2005 King Kong as Kong / Lumpy
2005 King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries as Self
2005 Ringers: Lord of the Fans as Self
2004 13 Going on 30 as Richard Kneeland
2004 Blessed as Father Carlo
2004 Stories of Lost Souls as Granny / Rastafarian / Hunter Jackson
2004 The Present as Self
2004 A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' as Self
2004 Standing Room Only as Granny
2004 The Making of 'The Return of the King' as Self
2004 The Appendices, Part Five: The War of the Ring as Self
2004 The Appendices, Part Six: The Passing of an Age as Self
2004 The Culture Show as Self (1 episode)
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as Gollum / Smeagol
2003 The Making of 'The Long and Short of It' as Self
2003 The Making of 'The Two Towers'
2003 The Appendices, Part Three: The Journey Continues... as Self
2003 The Appendices, Part Four: The Battle for Middle-earth Begins as Self
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as Gollum
2002 24 Hour Party People as Martin
2002 Deathwatch as Pvt. Thomas Quinn
2002 The Escapist as Ricky Barnes
2002 Icons
2002 HypaSpace as Self (1 episode)
2002 Spooks as Riff (1 episode)
2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Gollum
2001 Pandaemonium as John Thelwall
2000 Shiner as Mel
2000 Five Seconds to Spare as Chester
2000 The Jolly Boys' Last Stand as Anthony 'Spider' Dale
2000 Arabian Nights as Kasim (2 episodes)
1999 Topsy-Turvy as John D'Auban
1999 Insomnia as Harry
1999 Sweety Barrett as Leo King
1999 Oliver Twist as Bill Sikes (4 episodes)
1999 Shooting the Past as Styeman (3 episodes)
1998 Among Giants as Bob
1998 The Jump as Steven Brunos (4 episodes)
1997 Career Girls as Mr. Evans
1997 Mojo as Potts
1997 Stella Does Tricks as Fitz
1997 The Near Room as Bunny
1997 Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse as Sergeant Corrigan
1997 Loop as Bill
1996 Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self (1 episode)
1994 Prince of Jutland as Torsten
1994 Grushko as Pyotr
1994 Pie in the Sky as Maxwell (1 episode)
1994 Finney as Tom Finney (6 episodes)
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest (2 episodes)
1993 GMTV as Self (1 episode)
1990 The Chief as Jacko Dolan (1 episode)
1989 The Simpsons as Cleanie (voice) (1 episode)
1989 Streetwise as Owen (19 episodes)
1987 The New Statesman as Peter Moran (2 episodes)
1984 The Bill
1983 Natural World as Narrator (1 episode)
The Man Who Saved Paris as Chevenchy
The Man with the Miraculous Hands as Heinrich Himmler
Untitled Adventures of Tintin Sequel as Captain Haddock

Directing

2027 The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Director
2026 Animal Farm Director In Library
2021 Venom: Let There Be Carnage Director
2018 Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle Director
2018 The Ruins of Empires Director
2017 Breathe Director
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Second Unit Director In Library
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Second Unit Director
2004 The Present Director
The Giant's House Director

Production

2027 The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Executive Producer
2026 Animal Farm Producer In Library
2024 Brilliant Minds Executive Producer
2023 Next Goal Wins Executive Producer
2022 The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself Executive Producer
2021 No One Gets Out Alive Executive Producer
2018 Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle Producer
2017 The Ritual Producer In Library
2010 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Executive Producer
2003 The Long and Short of It Assistant Location Manager
The Last House on Needless Street Producer
The Monster Tale Executive Producer

Crew

2004 The Present Cinematography