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Andrew Clement "Andy" Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English film actor, video game voice 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. He also earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of Ian Brady in the British television film Longford. Serkis's motion... MORE

Andrew Clement "Andy" Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English film actor, video game voice 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. He also earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of Ian Brady in the British television film Longford. Serkis's motion captured prestations have been critically acclaimed, especially as Gollum for which he earned several award nominations, becoming the first motion captured actor to win 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 (née Weech), was English and taught disabled children; his father, Clement Serkis, was an Iraqi gynaecologist of Armenian ethnicity. His family's original surname had been "Sarkisian". Serkis was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing, and then started studying visual arts at LESS