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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
Supreme Leader Snoke
for Supreme Leader Snoke in Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
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After the final battle on Jakku in 'The Force Awakens', Luke and Rey leave to go to Tatooine to meet Mara Jade, as well as Luke's young son, named Jayson. They then leave to go throughout the Galaxy and reunite the New Jedi Order, hoping to receive answers of the ancient evil they face. Once they begin their journey, they reunite with one of the first of the new Jedi Luke trained, Tsabb Bri, a Rodian Jedi. He informs them that he has found a name of an ancient being, one so close to the force, she became a being of pure darkside; Abaloth. They then travel to Ahch-To, home of the first Jedi temple, in hopes of finding answers about Abaloth. Once at the temple, they meet a woman who has been hiding at the temple since the end of the galactic civil war, and claims to have worked with Anakin Skywalker. Her name is Ashoka Tano. Meanwhile, Han, Leia, Lando, Poe, Finn, Udic, and the Mandalorian learn that a major benefactor of the First Order is a female Hutt named Szuumo the Hutt. They learn she resides on Coruscant, and go there to track her down, in hopes of disrupting most of the First Orders finance. Once there, however, they learn a much bigger secret about the First Order. A secret that changes everything.
