Andrew Clement "Andy" Serkis is an English film actor, director and author. He is popularly known for playing through motion capture to animate and voice computer-generated characters: Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and its upcoming prequel The Hobbit, King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin. Andrew also earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of Ian Brady in the British television film Longford. Serkis's motion captured work have been critically... acclaimed, especially as Gollum for which he earned several award nominations, becoming the first motion captured actor to win a Empire Award, a Saturn Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Serkis, one of five children, was born and brought up in Ruislip Manor in west London. His mother, Lylie , was English and taught disabled children; his father, Clement Serkis, was an Iraqi gynaecologist of Armenian ethnicity. His ancestors' original surname had been "Sarkisian".
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| Birthdate: | April 20, 1964 |
| Birthplace: | Ruislip |
| Age: | 48 |
| Height: | 5' 8" |
| Education: | Lancaster University, St Benedict's School |
| Religion: | Atheism |
| Also known as: | Andy Serkis and The Blockheads, Andrew C.G. Serkis, Andrew Clement G. Serkis |