Person Open DS/UK/23224 Serkis; Andy (20 April 1964); English actor and film director Serkis Andy 20 April 1964 English actor and film director Male Andrew Clement Serkis Ruislip Manor, Middlesex, England (born)

English Actor Multiple / Mixed Agnostic / Atheist / Secular Christian Son of Lylie Weech (English teacher for disabled children) and Clement Serkis (Iraqi-born gynaecologist of Armenian descent). His ancestors' original surname was "Sarkisian". Heterosexual Andy Serkis is an English actor and film director. He is best known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters 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), and Supreme Leader Snoke in the first two Star Wars sequel trilogy films, The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017). In 2018, he portrayed the character of Baloo in his self-directed film, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. Serkis portrayed Ulysses Klaue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Black Panther (2018). Serkis has his own production company and motion capture workshop, The Imaginarium Studios in London, which he used for Mowgli. He made his directorial debut with Imaginarium's 2017 film Breathe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Serkis (2019) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes Religion: Serkis was born to Catholic parents, and though he has been an atheist since his teenage years, he is "drawn to the karmic possibilities of energy transference", specifically "the idea that your energy lives on after you" RAHAKirkbride 12/20/2019 RAHAKirkbride 10/25/2023 56bb8179-03e4-4441-8a7e-298bed2bf767