Andy Serkis is known to millions of fans for his portrayal of the depraved creature Gollum in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, as the giant ape Kong in Jackson's King Kong and as Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. For his portayal of the revolutionary chimpanzee Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Andy will receive a Virtuoso Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, and has been nominated as Best Supporting Actor by the film critics associations of Houston, San Diego and the Washington Area as well as the 2011 Satellite Awards and the BFCA Critics' Choice Movie Awards. He is now on-screen as Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin.
Winner! Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature.
Andy earned the Evening Standard Film Award for Best Actor for his tour-de-force portrayal of rocker Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. He scored nominations for the Emmy and the Golden Globe for playing murderer Ian Brady in Longford and earned the Empire Award for Best British Actor for The Return of the King. Along the way he's portrayed Albert Einstein, Vincent van Gogh and, in Mike Leigh's Topsy Turvy, the madcap choreographer John D'Auban.
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In recent years, Andy has branched into other aspects of entertainment. He's directed a short film, Snake and a stage play, The Double Bass. He's Second Unit Director of The Hobbit, now filming in New Zealand. He's been active as a writer, director and performer in some of the most sucessful video games.
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Andy formed Caveman Films to produce independent films in UK, and The Imaginarium Studio in London to bring performance capture and other technology to bear on the performing arts.
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