Andy Serkis - Wikipedia. Andrew Clement Serkis[1][2] (born 2. April 1. 96. 4) is an English film actor and director.
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He is best known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer- generated characters as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2. King Kong in the eponymous 2. Caesar in the Planet of the Apes reboot series (2. Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin (2.
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Supreme Leader Snoke in Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2. Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2. Upcoming performance capture role includes being casted as Baloo in Jungle Book (2. Serkis's film work in motion capture has been critically acclaimed.[3][4][5] He has received an Empire Award, and two Saturn Awards for his motion- capture acting. He earned a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of serial killer Ian Brady in the British television film Longford (2. BAFTA for his portrayal of new wave and punk rock musician Ian Dury in the biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2. In 2. 01. 5, Serkis began playing Ulysses Klaue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Avengers: Age of Ultron, which will be followed by Black Panther (2.
Serkis has his own production company and motion capture workshop, The Imaginarium Studios in London, which he used for Jungle Book. He made his directorial debut with Imaginarium's 2. Breathe. Early life[edit]Serkis was born and brought up in Ruislip Manor in Middlesex. Watch The Hammer Online Mic.
His mother, Lylie (born Weech), was English and taught disabled children; his father, Clement Serkis, was an Iraqi- born gynaecologist of Armenian descent.[6][7] His ancestors' original surname was "Sarkisian".[8] His father often worked away in the Middle East, while Serkis and his siblings were raised in Britain, with regular holidays in the Middle East including to Tyre, Sidon, Damascus and Baghdad.[9]Serkis was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing, and then studied visual arts at Lancaster University. He chose theatre as a secondary subject so that he could design posters.[1. Serkis was a member of the County College and part of the student radio station Bailrigg FM. He joined the Nuffield Studio, getting involved in designing and producing plays.
Having agreed to act in a couple of productions, towards the end of his first year Serkis played the lead role in Barrie Keeffe's play Gotcha, as a rebellious teenager holding a teacher hostage. As a result, he changed his major subject to acting, constructing his Independent Studies Degree around acting and set design, studying Konstantin Stanislavski and Bertolt Brecht, and including minor modules in art and visual graphics.[1. In his final year at Lancaster he adapted Raymond Briggs's graphic novel The Tin- Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman, a satire about the Falklands War, as a one- man show, which he performed to acclaim. In his third year at college, Serkis joined the backstage team at the local Duke's Playhouse to earn his Equity card.
On graduation, although advised to take a one- year post- graduate acting course, he joined Dukes as an actor and, under director Jonathan Petherbridge who used workshops based upon the methods of Augusto Boal, spent 1. Brecht through Shakespeare to modern British playwrights.[1.
After 1. 6 months, and having gained his Equity card, Serkis joined a series of touring companies, including productions of: Bouncers opposite Hull Truck; Florizel in The Winter's Tale; and the fool in King Lear with director Max Stafford- Clark.[1. In the early 1. 99. London, and took roles in Dogboy, the Royal Court Theatre's production of Mojo,Bill Sikes in a television film of Oliver Twist (1. Wilson Milam's production of Hurlyburly (1. Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, with Rupert Graves and David Tennant.[1.
Like many British actors, Serkis made the move to television by appearing in small roles, such as Greville in an episode of The Darling Buds of May (1. However, one of his first major starring roles was in the joint BBC/HBO production of Einstein and Eddington (2. Serkis played Albert Einstein, following the development of his theory of relativity, while David Tennant played British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington. Watch Down The Road Putlocker here. Serkis joined director Mike Leigh's ensemble for two film productions, and appeared in the romantic comedy Loop (1. Susannah York. Serkis first came to wide public notice for his performance as Sméagol / Gollum, in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2. CGI character. His work on The Lord of the Rings started a debate on the legitimacy of CGI- assisted acting.
Some critics[1. 4] felt Serkis should have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, since his voice, body language, and facial expressions were used. There is the argument that his CGI actions were partially, or in some cases fully, animated without his movements, but the same is true for actors in a traditional film with CGI. Serkis appears briefly in live action as pre- Gollum Sméagol at the beginning of The Return of the King, and the CGI Gollum's facial characteristics are fundamentally based on Serkis' own. Serkis has done critically acclaimed motion capture work in several other films, including the title character in the 2. King Kong (in which he also played the ship's cook in live action) and as Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2. War for the Planet of the Apes (2.
He also worked with game developers Ninja Theory on the 2. Heavenly Sword, providing the motion capture and voice for King Bohan (the game's main villain).[1. Serkis was cast as serial killer. Ian Brady in the BAFTA- nominated Longford, co- starring Samantha Morton as Myra Hindley and Jim Broadbent as Lord Longford. The film was attacked by relatives of Brady's and Hindley's victims.[1. In 2. 00. 6, Serkis appeared in the role of Mr. Grin in the film rendition of Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider novel Stormbreaker.
In 2. 00. 6, he was in the film The Prestige as Mr. Alley, assistant to Nikola Tesla, and as the voice of Spike, one of the henchrats in the Aardman Animations film Flushed Away. In 2. 00. 6 Serkis appeared in Jim Threapleton's improvised feature film Extraordinary Rendition, which premiered in 2. In 2. 01. 0, he played 1.
Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. Serkis appeared in Sugarhouse, a low- budget independently made film, playing local crime lord Hoodwink, who terrorises an east London housing estate. For the role, Serkis shaved his head and had sessions lasting 2. The film premiered at the 2. Edinburgh Festival and released in the UK on 2.
August 2. 00. 7. He appeared alongside Sacha Baron Cohen in The Jolly Boys' Last Stand. In 2. 00. 7, Serkis provided the voice over for Monkey Life, Five broadcast for three weeks from 1. August 2. 00. 7. This series is about Monkey World, the popular ape and monkeysanctuary and zoo near Wool, Dorset. Serkis reunited with Peter Jackson, as a cast member in Jackson's and Steven Spielberg's Tintin trilogy, based on The Adventures of Tintin.
Serkis supplied the voice and motion capture performance of Captain Haddock (adopting a Scottish accent) as well as his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock. Filming began in January 2. Filming was due to begin in September 2. Universal pulling out of backing the project.[1.
In 2. 00. 8, Serkis appeared as Rigaud in the BBC Television adaptation of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit and as Capricorn in Inkheart. In 2. 00. 9, Serkis voiced the role of the demon Screwtape in Focus on the Family's Radio Theatre audio adaptation of C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters.[2.
In 2. 01. 0, Serkis was cast as William Hare, with Simon Pegg as Burke, in the John Landis black comedy film Burke and Hare based on the Burke and Hare murders in Scotland in 1. In 2. 01. 0, Serkis features in the TV series The Accused, in "Liam's Story", written by Danny Brocklehurst and Jimmy Mc. Govern. He played Caesar in the 2.