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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.
Westeros is united. The year is 189 after the Conquest. Nearly two centuries have passed since the Empire was founded on the shores of the Trident. From the outset, it was a work of strength and war, born of the union of the last of the Targaryens - the young Rhaenys, the unfortunate sibling murdered by Harren the Black - and Torrhen Stark, the old Wolf of Winterfell. Forced to join forces to survive the Era of Struggle, when the kingdoms all fought for supremacy, they carried their banner of the Wolf and the Dragon onto every battlefield. Surrounded, they fought everywhere against the old monarchies of the world, united and driven by a breath of religious fanaticism that set the entire continent ablaze. This new line, named Braenaryon by its founders, soon had a hegemonic and unifying vision for the whole of Westeros. The imperial capital was founded on ancient Salins and the Isle of Repose, at the mouth of the Trident in the Narrow Sea. Named Fort-Darion, the city soon embodied the raw ideals of the Empire, built by the efforts of craftsmen and engineers from all the federated peoples. But the war continued.
