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Andrew Clement Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his motion capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for computer-generated characters such 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), Baloo in his self-directed film Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) and Supreme Leader Snoke in the Star Wars sequel trilogy films The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017), also portraying Kino Loy in the Star Wars Disney+ series Andor (2022). Serkis's film work in motion capture has been critically acclaimed. He has received an Empire Award and two Saturn Awards for his motion-capture acting. He earned a BAFTA and a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of serial killer Ian Brady in the British television film Longford (2006). He 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). In 2020, Serkis received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. In 2021, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for The Letter for the King (2020). Serkis portrayed Ulysses Klaue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Black Panther (2018), as well as the Disney+ series What If...? (2021). He also played Alfred Pennyworth in The Batman (2022). Serkis has his own production company and motion-capture workshop, The Imaginarium, in London, which he used for Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. He made his directorial debut with Imaginarium's 2017 film Breathe and also directed Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Andy Serkis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Andy Serkis
Animals
for Animals in (100th story special) The Dawn of Sonic the Hedgehog
Suggested by daviddyster
Dr. Robotnik attacks Christmas Island 15 years ago. The island was mainly populated with hedgehogs, and a couple owls. There were two hedgehogs in specific named Jules and Aleena who hid their baby boy from Robotnik when he attacked. The owls kept a few of the other hedgehogs safe and evacuated most of them off of the island off of Robotnik's radar. But one of the owls raised one hedgehog in particular.. That hedgehog is Jules and Aleena's child Sonic. For 15 years, Sonic was the only hedgehog on Christmas Island. When he was old enough, he roamed around Christmas Island, exploring, finding small, but exciting adventures with the only friends he has: just a bunch of animals (one of each animal from the first two classic sonic games). But when Robotnik returned to that area, Sonic defended and took out his first few Badniks, realizing that Robotnik was capturing the animals and using them as batteries!
