Andy Serkis
Andrew Clement Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English actor, director and producer of Iraqi and Armenian descent. He is best known for his performance 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), and Supreme Leader Snoke in the Star Wars sequel trilogy films The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017). In 2018, he portrayed the character of Baloo in his self-directed film, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle.
Serkis is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time, number ten, and his 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 Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of serial killer Ian Brady in the British television film Longford (2006) and 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 series The Letter for the King (2020).
Serkis portrayed Ulysses Klaue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Black Panther (2018). 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. He directed Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), which is set in Sony's Spider-Man Universe.
Acted in
The Batman - Part II
2026
as Alfred
Hitpig!
2024
as Newscaster (voice)
Venom: The Last Dance
2024
as Knull (voice)
Blue Whales: Return of the Giants
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Luther: The Fallen Sun
2023
as David Robey
Creature
2023
as (voice)
Star Wars: Andor
2022
as Kino Loy
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
2022
as Kino Loy (archive footage) (uncredited)
Vengeance in the Making
2022
as Self
The Batman
2022
as Alfred
Animal
2021
as Self - Narrator (voice)
SAS: Red Notice
2021
as George Clements
What If...?
2021
as Ulysses Klaue (voice)
A Christmas Carol
2020
as Marley's Ghost (voice)
The Savoy
2020
as Self
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
2020
as Narrator
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
2020
as Count Rugen
FX's A Christmas Carol
2019
as Ghost of Christmas Past
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
as Snoke (voice)
The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor
2019
as Himself
Long Shot
2019
as Parker Wembley
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
2018
as Self
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2018
as Baloo (voice)
Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors
2018
as Himself - Presenter
The Director and the Jedi
2018
as Self
Black Panther
2018
as Ulysses Klaue
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
as Supreme Leader Snoke
Great Performers: Horror Show
2017
as The Demented Clown
War for the Planet of the Apes
2017
as Caesar
Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey
2016
as Self
Fungus The Bogeyman
2015
Fungus the Bogeyman
2015
as Narrator
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
as Supreme Leader Snoke
We Are Stars
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015
as Ulysses Klaue
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014
as Caesar
The Magnificent Lion Boy
2013
as Umberto Farini
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
as Gollum
London: The Modern Babylon
2012
as Spoken Quotations (voice)
The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World
2012
as Self - Narrator
Arthur Christmas
2011
as Lead Elf (voice)
The Adventures of Tintin
2011
as Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock (voice)
Wild Bill
2011
as Glen
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
as Caesar
Death of a Superhero
2011
as Dr. Adrian King
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
2010
as Eadweard Muybridge
Accused
2010
as Liam Black
Burke & Hare
2010
as William Hare
Brighton Rock
2010
as Mr. Colleoni
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
2010
as Ian Dury
Inkheart
2008
as Capricorn
Einstein and Eddington
2008
as Albert Einstein
Little Dorrit
2008
as Rigaud
The Cottage
2008
as David
Sugarhouse
2007
as Hoodwink
Extraordinary Rendition
2007
as Maro, Interrogator
Monkey Life
2007
as Self (Voice)
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
2006
as Self
Longford
2006
as Ian Brady
Flushed Away
2006
as Spike (voice)
Simon Schama's Power of Art
2006
The Prestige
2006
as Alley
Stormbreaker
2006
as Mr. Grin
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
2005
as Self
King Kong
2005
as Kong / Lumpy
Ringers: Lord of the Fans
2005
as Self
Stories of Lost Souls
2004
as Granny / Rastafarian / Hunter Jackson
The Present
2004
as Self
Blessed
2004
as Father Carlo
13 Going on 30
2004
as Richard Kneeland
Standing Room Only
2004
as Granny
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
as Gollum / Smeagol
The Making of 'The Long and Short of It'
2003
as Self
Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories
2003
as Self
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
as Gollum
Deathwatch
2002
as Pvt. Thomas Quinn
HypaSpace
2002
as Self
Spooks
2002
as Riff
Icons
2002
The Escapist
2002
as Ricky Barnes
24 Hour Party People
2002
as Martin Hannett
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
as Gollum
Pandaemonium
2001
as John Thelwall
Five Seconds to Spare
2000
as Chester
Shiner
2000
as Mel
The Jolly Boys' Last Stand
2000
as Anthony 'Spider' Dale
Arabian Nights
2000
as Kasim
Topsy-Turvy
1999
as John D'Auban
Oliver Twist
1999
as Bill Sikes
Sweety Barrett
1999
as Leo King
Shooting the Past
1999
as Styeman
Insomnia
1999
as Harry
The Jump
1998
as Steven Brunos
Among Giants
1998
as Bob
Stella Does Tricks
1997
as Fitz
Loop
1997
as Bill
Mojo
1997
as Potts
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
1997
as Sergeant Corrigan
Career Girls
1997
as Mr. Evans
The Near Room
1997
as Bunny
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
as Self
Finney
1994
as Tom Finney
Grushko
1994
as Pyotr
Pie in the Sky
1994
as Maxwell
Royal Deceit
1994
as Torsten
The Simpsons
1989
as Cleanie (voice)
Streetwise
1989
as Owen
The New Statesman
1987
as Peter Moran
The Bill
1984
Natural World
1983
as Narrator
The Man Who Saved Paris
as Chevenchy
Animal Farm
as Benjamin (voice)
Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
as Gollum / Smeagol
The Man with the Miraculous Hands
as Heinrich Himmler
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
as Self
Untitled Adventures of Tintin Sequel
as Captain Haddock