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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
Swoop
for Swoop in Ultra Magnus: Shattered Phase 3: Movie 17
Suggested by batmack2
After a Military Base had been destroyed by a robot that resembles Optimus Prime, the AutoBots are being put under suspension by the U.S. Government. Stating that they must either be working with the government and only do battle when allowed, or else they will have separate themselves from the AutoBot Team. Ultra Magnus thinks that fighting under control is not they way of a Soldier, that if they are not allowed, they won't fight battles that would still matter, and separates himself from the AutoBots and Optimus Prime. This creates a divide in the AutoBots, as Optimus's and Magnus's teams fight each other. All the while, this new threat is still pulling the strings, and causes havoc and chaos to the world, as well as spilt the AutoBots in Two. It is revealed at the end that this Optimus Prime CopyCat is an Evil Version named Nemesis Prime from a World where the AutoBots are Evil and the Decepticons are Good. The AutoBots decide to work together to stop these new threats. But in the end, this new threat still dosen't change anything between Optimus and Magnus and they decide to split the team. Optimus's Bots stay working with the government, and Magnus's Bots go on the Run.
