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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
Donkey Kong
for Donkey Kong in The Tyranny of Donkey Kong
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The Tyranny of Donkey Kong is a 2021 American monster film based on the NES game Donkey Kong and the Nintendo Games character of the same name. Written and Directed by Matt Reeves, the film stars Andy Serkis as the titular character, along with Jack Black, Nicholas Cage, Mila Kunis, and Jimmy Vee, with Lou Ferrigno physically portraying the character. The Tyranny of Donkey Kong was released theatrically on November 2nd, 2021; it grossed over $491 against a budget of $519 million, becoming the highest grossing film based on a Nintendo character. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with many highlighting Reeves' direction, action sequences, visual effects, faithfulness and the performances of Serkis and Black, but criticized its runtime and overuse of CGI. A sequel entitled The Tyranny of Donkey Kong 2 was released a year later, which was a critical and commercial failure, while a third sequel was released in 2024, to critical and commercial success, all three films constituting the Donkey Kong Trilogy.
