Andy Serkis
Andy Serkis
Andrew Clement "Andy" Serkisis an English film actor, director and author. 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 trilogyand The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the eponymous King Kong in the 2005 film, Caesar in Riseand Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintinand Supreme Leader...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 April 1964
CityLondon, England
Andy Serkis quotes about
My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.
I'm a Mac user. I think it depends on how you were brought up, and I was introduced to Apple quite early. They're certainly the best for visual stuff and film-directing.
I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery.
When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.
This was absolutely, really needed because we were doing really badly this year.
It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.
If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.
I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.
I've always been really in touch with my primal instincts. In my profession, you have to be.
I'm a shockingly bad sleeper. In bed very late. Awake at the crack of dawn.
I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!
I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.
I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.
I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.