Andy Serkis
Andrew Clement "Andy" Serkis (born 20 April 1964) 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 Hobbit prequels, 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.
Andy also earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of Ian Brady in the British television film Longford. Serkis's film work in motion capture has been critically acclaimed, especially as Gollum and Caesar, earning him awards from many associations which do not usually recognize motion capture as real acting including an Empire Award, a National Board of Review Award, two Saturn Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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