In the early 1990s he settled in London, and took roles in Dogboy, the Royal Court Theatre's production of Mojo, and Wilson Milam's production of Hurlyburly (1997) at the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, with Rupert Graves and David Tennant.
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Īfter 16 months, and having gained his Equity card, Serkis joined a series of touring companies, including productions of: Bouncers opposite Hull Truck Florizel in The Winter's Tale and the fool in King Lear with director Max Stafford-Clark. Under director Jonathan Petherbridge, who used workshops based on the methods of Augusto Boal, he spent 18 months acting in a broad range of productions from Brecht, Shakespeare and modern British playwrights. On graduating, although advised to take a one-year post-graduate acting course, he joined Dukes as an actor. In his third year at university, Serkis joined the backstage team at the local Duke's Playhouse to earn his Equity card. In his final year at Lancaster he adapted Raymond Briggs's graphic novel The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman, a satire about the Falklands War, as a one-man show, which he performed to acclaim. As a result, he changed his major subject to acting, constructing his Independent Studies Degree around acting and set design, studying Konstantin Stanislavski and Bertolt Brecht, and including minor modules in art and visual graphics. Having agreed to act in a couple of productions towards the end of his first year, Serkis played the lead role in Barrie Keeffe's play Gotcha as a rebellious teenager holding a teacher hostage. He joined the Nuffield Studio, getting involved in designing and producing plays. Serkis was a member of The County College and part of the student radio station Bailrigg FM. He studied visual arts and theatre as part of his degree at Lancaster University and graduated in 1985. Serkis was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing. His father often worked abroad in the Middle East, while Serkis and his siblings were raised in Britain, with regular holidays in the Middle East including to Tyre, Sidon, Damascus and Baghdad. His ancestors' original surname was " Sarkisian". His mother, Lylie Weech, was half Iraqi and half English and taught disabled children his father, Clement Serkis, was an Iraqi-Armenian gynaecologist. He grew up in a combination of Ruislip and Baghdad, Iraq. Serkis was born in Ruislip Manor in Middlesex (now within Greater London). He directed Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), which is set in Sony's Spider-Man Universe. He made his directorial debut with Imaginarium's 2017 film Breathe. Serkis has his own production company and motion capture workshop, The Imaginarium in London, which he used for Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. He will play Alfred Pennyworth in The Batman (2022).
Serkis portrayed Ulysses Klaue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Black Panther (2018). In 2021, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for the series The Letter for the King (2020). In 2020, Serkis received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema.
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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). He has received an Empire Award and two Saturn Awards for his motion-capture acting.
Serkis is one of the highest-grossing actors of all time, number ten, and his film work in motion capture has been critically acclaimed. In 2018, he portrayed the character of Baloo in his self-directed film, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. 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 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). Andrew Clement Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English actor, producer, and director.
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