History Creator / AndySerkis

* ''Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll'': IanDury

* ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' and "'Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': Caesar

* ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': Caesar

* ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'': Franchise/{{Godzilla}}

* ''HeavenlySword''[[hottip:*:Mocap performances also done in collaboration with WETA Digital]]: [[InkSuitActor King Bohan]]

* [[GreenEyes Turquoise]] [[BlueEyes Eyes]]

* AwardSnub: Admittedly, it would be difficult to decide just ''who'' to give the Actor Oscar to, for [=LOTR=], but some more recognition would be nice.

* ClusterFBomb: In character as Gollum. As Sméagol protests. And Serkis himself looks on in horror. It is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuUGdXGhurQ glorious]].

* FieldPromotion / YouAreInCommandNow: As a director for ''The Hobbit''.

** [[CrowningMomentOfFunny He even used both persona on the]] DVDCommentary of ''Return of the King''.

* DirectedByCastMember: The Hobbit

* FakeAmerican: Put on a New York accent for The Prestige.
* FieldPromotion / YouAreInCommandNow: As a director for The Hobbit.

* PuttingTheBandBackTogether, even CameBackStrong: When given the opportunity to come back to Middle Earth as Gollum in The Hobbit, became the second unit director, as well.

* TalkingToHimself: As Gollum and Smeagol
* ThoseTwoGuys: Has co-starred with JamieBell in Deathwatch, King Kong, and Tintin.
* [[GreenEyes Turquoise]] [[BlueEyes Eyes]]

* ''Film/TheHobbit'': Gollum, again.

* ''{{Inkheart}''}: Capricorn

* Film/TheAdventuresOfTintin: Captain Haddock
* Film/TheLordOfTheRings: Gollum
* Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes: Caesar
* Film/TheHobbit: Gollum, again.
* BurkeAndHare: William Hare
* {{Inkheart}}: Capricorn
* AlexRider: Mr. Grin
* Film/KingKong: King Kong
* {{Theatre/Othello}}: Iago

'''Andy Serkis''' is an English actor, painter, and director, born April 20, 1964. He has three sisters and a brother. As a child, Serkis wanted to be an artist; he was fond of painting and drawing, and visualized himself working behind the scenes in productions. Serkis studied visual arts at Lancaster University. There he became involved in mechanical aspects of the theatre and did stage design and set building for theatrical productions. Then Serkis was asked to play a role in a student production, and made his stage debut in Barrie Keefe's play 'Gotcha'; thereafter he switched from stage design to acting, which was a real calling that transformed his life.

->[[=LotR=]] launched the career of one man, [[TypeCasting who must now]] [[SerkisFolk wear skintight Spandex and face dots]] [[UpToEleven for the rest of his life]].

->[These films] launched the career of one man, [[TypeCasting who must now]] [[SerkisFolk wear skintight Spandex and face dots]] [[UpToEleven for the rest of his life]].

!!Tropes named after Mr. Serkis:
* SerkisFolk, naturally, after his pioneering work in Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''

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* KingKong: King Kong
* {{Othello}}: Iago

* SerkisFolk: natch.

In 1999, Andy Serkis landed the prize role of Gollum in Peter Jackson's epic film trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien's saga 'The Lord of the Rings'. He spent four years on the part and received awards and nominations for his performance as Gollum, a computer generated character in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) which won 11 Oscars. Serkis also used this art form in his performance as Kong in King Kong (2005), which won him a Toronto Film Critics Association Award (2005) for his unprecedented work helping to realize the main character in King Kong, and a Visual Effects Society Award (2006) for Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture.

->[These films] launched the career of one man, who must now [[SerkisFolk wear skintight Spandex and face dots]] [[UpToEleven for the rest of his life]].

* SerkisFolk, naturally, after his pioneering work in PeterJackson's {{Film/TheLordOfTheRings}}

* {{Film/TheAdventuresOfTintin}}: Captain Haddock
* {{Film/TheLordOfTheRings}}: Gollum
* RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes: Caesar
* {{Film/TheHobbit}}: Gollum, again.

'''Andy Serkis'''is an English actor, painter, and director, born April 20, 1964. He has three sisters and a brother. As a child, Serkis wanted to be an artist; he was fond of painting and drawing, and visualized himself working behind the scenes in productions. Serkis studied visual arts at Lancaster University. There he became involved in mechanical aspects of the theatre and did stage design and set building for theatrical productions. Then Serkis was asked to play a role in a student production, and made his stage debut in Barrie Keefe's play 'Gotcha'; thereafter he switched from stage design to acting, which was a real calling that transformed his life.

* {{Film/TheHobbit}}: Gollum