Andy Serkis

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Andy Serkis at Comic-Con in San Diego 2017

Andrew Clement "Andy" Serkis (born April 20, 1964 in Ruislip Manor , Middlesex ) is a British actor and director. He became famous for his portrayal of Gollum / Sméagol in the film series The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by director Peter Jackson . In King Kong (2005) Serkis served the giant ape as a movement model, in Planet of the Apes: Prevolution (2011), Planet of the Apes: Revolution (2014) and Planet of the Apes: Survival (2017) the chimpanzee Caesar.

Life

Andy Serkis, 2008

Serkis was born in Ruislip Manor in the UK and grew up there with his parents Lylie (née Weech) and Clement Serkis. His father is an Iraqi of Armenian descent. After leaving school, he attended Lancaster University , where he studied independent studies and was involved in the university's theater group. After graduating in 1985, he performed at the Dukes Theater in Lancaster. Serkis was a vegetarian but began eating fish again while filming the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

On July 22, 2002, he married actress Lorraine Ashbourne . He has three children with her, a daughter and two sons. The family lives in London .

Career

Serkis has appeared in several film roles since the late 1990s. But he only achieved wider fame through his portrayal of Gollum / Sméagol in the 2001 to 2003 film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings . Director Jackson repeatedly emphasized the outstanding role of Serkis in portraying Gollum . Originally Serkis should Gollum merely lend his voice after However, Jackson realized that Serkis' body language a fundamental part of the representation Gollum was that were CGI facial features of Gollum to the adapted by Serkis. In addition, Serkis' representation was used for motion detection whenever possible . Where that was not possible, his game was used as a template for fading. Serkis wrote the book Gollum about the shooting . Magic on the screen , in which he writes about his approach to the role and the motion capture work .

Serkis was able to celebrate further major successes with the films King Kong (2005), in which he again served as a movement model, and as Capricorn in Inkheart (2008).

In addition to acting, Serkis also worked as an assistant for the developer company Ninja Theory on the Heavenly Sword game for the Sony PlayStation 3 . Among other things, he organized the casting, the complete movement scenes and was also integrated into the development of the story. In the game itself, he played the role of King Bohan . He was also involved in the development of the game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and stars as the Monkey .

Serkis took on the role of serial killer William Hare in the 2010 film Burke & Hare , directed by John Landis . The role of William Burke in this film adaptation of the West Port murders was played by his compatriot and comedian Simon Pegg .

The directors and producers Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have been working on a three-part Tintin film adaptation since 2009 . The first part, The Adventures of Tintin and Struppi , was released in German cinemas at the end of October 2011. The main roles are Jamie Bell as Tim and Serkis as Captain Haddock to see.

His television work (including The Moor Murderess of Manchester , 2006; Klein Dorrit , 2008) earned Serkis Golden Globe and Emmy nominations .

In 2011, Serkis acted in Planet of the Apes: Prevolution as a movement model for the animated chimpanzee Caesar. In Peter Jackson's adaptation of the Tolkien novel The Hobbit , Serkis played the role of Gollum, as in The Lord of the Rings . He also worked as a director of the second unit .

In 2011, Serkis founded the production company The Imaginarium together with producer Jonathan Cavendish , which focuses, among other things, on films that are made with the help of movement models, i.e. the technique with which Serkis played his roles Gollum, Caesar and King Kong. The Imaginarium's first project, however, is the PC version of the action game "Ryse: Son of Rome" developed by Crytek . In a press release dated October 19, 2012, it was said that a film adaptation of George Orwell's novel Animal Farm , which Andy Serkis would direct, was one of the first projects.

In the 2014 film Planet of the Apes: Revolution he played the chimpanzee Caesar again. In 2015 he was in Avengers: Age of Ultron in the role of the smuggler Ulysses Klaue / Klaw . Three years later he was seen again as Klaw in Black Panther . Also in 2015, Serkis was part of the cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Supreme Leader Snoke . He also played this role in the sequel Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2017. In addition, his motion capture recordings are the template for the antagonist of the video game Star Citizen .

Serkis made his directorial debut with As long as I breathe . The film premiered on October 4, 2017 as the opening film of the London Film Festival. The release of his second feature film, an adaptation of The Jungle Book under the name Mowgli, was planned for 2018 . After the streaming provider Netflix secured the marketing rights to the film in July 2018 , a worldwide release for the cinema has become unlikely. Instead, the film should have been offered on the streaming service's platform in spring 2019. In November 2018, a small theatrical release was announced at some locations from the end of November and a global Netflix start on December 7, 2018. In addition, the film title was expanded with the subtitle Legend of the Jungle .

In August 2019, it was announced that Serkis would direct the film Venom: Let There Be Carnage , the sequel to the 2018 film Venom starring Tom Hardy .

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

As a director

As a producer

Web links

Commons : Andy Serkis  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ftvdb.bfi.org.uk
  2. ↑ Unknown world star: The Lord of Points, Spiegel Online, July 13, 2007
  3. ↑ Burke and Hare at IMDb.com , accessed November 20, 2010
  4. ^ Steven Spielberg produces "Tintin" with Peter Jackson. (No longer available online.) Klatsch-tratsch.de, January 27, 2009, archived from the original on April 3, 2011 ; Retrieved March 21, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klatsch-tratsch.de
  5. ↑ PC Games Hardware: Ryse PC: Technology Interview
  6. ↑ Netflix buys "Mowgli": Andy Serkis' jungle blockbuster does not come to the cinema. July 28, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Andy Serkis is directing "Venom 2". spiegel.de, August 6, 2019, accessed on August 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Serkis, Andy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Serkis, Andrew CG (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruislip Manor , Middlesex, England, United Kingdom