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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 portraying 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 series 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 directed Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021).

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

(2003)

Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam take the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark lord's realm.

Runtime:

201 min

Director:

Peter Jackson

Cast:

Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler

8.9

93%

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

(2001)

Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can...

Runtime:

179 min

Director:

Peter Jackson

Cast:

Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler

8.8

92%

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

(2002)

Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.

Runtime:

179 min

Director:

Peter Jackson

Cast:

Elijah Wood, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler

8.7

95%

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The Prestige

(2006)

Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

Runtime:

130 min

Director:

Christopher Nolan

Cast:

Hugh Jackman, Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson

8.5

76%

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

(2012)

Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.

Runtime:

169 min

Director:

Peter Jackson

Cast:

Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Andy Serkis, Cate Blanchett

7.9

64%

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens

(2015)

Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.

Runtime:

136 min

Director:

J.J. Abrams

Cast:

Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Adam Driver

7.8

93%

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The Batman

(2022)

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.

Runtime:

177 min

Director:

Ben Affleck

Cast:

Robert Pattinson, Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Ben Affleck, Zoë Kravitz

7.8

85%

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Rise of the Planet of the Apes

(2011)

Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caeser has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caeser decides to revolt against those who have harmed him.

Runtime:

105 min

Director:

Rupert Wyatt

Cast:

Andy Serkis, Karin Konoval, Freida Pinto, James Franco, John Lithgow

7.6

81%

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

(2014)

Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

Runtime:

130 min

7.6

90%

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Avengers: Age of Ultron

(2015)

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected act...

Runtime:

141 min

Director:

Joss Whedon

Cast:

Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo

7.4

75%

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Black Panther

(2018)

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle...

Runtime:

134 min

Cast:

Chadwick Boseman, Chadwick Boseman, Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Michael B. Jordan

7.3

97%

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War for the Planet of the Apes

(2017)

Drama, Science Fiction, War

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each ...

Runtime:

140 min

Director:

Matt Reeves

Cast:

Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Karin Konoval, Terry Notary

7.5

93%

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi

(2017)

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.

Runtime:

152 min

Director:

Rian Johnson

Cast:

Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega

7.2

91%

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King Kong

(2005)

Action, Adventure, Drama

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.

Runtime:

187 min

Director:

Peter Jackson

Cast:

Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks

7.2

84%

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The Adventures of Tintin

(2011)

Adventure, Animation, Mystery

From Academy Award® winning filmmakers, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, comes the epic adventures of Tintin. Racing to uncover the secrets of a sunken ship that may hold a vast fortune, but also an ancient curse, Tintin and his loyal dog Snowy embark on an action-packed journey around the world that critics are calling.

Runtime:

107 min

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Cast:

Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, Cary Elwes, Jamie Bell, Simon Pegg

7.3

74%

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

(2019)

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.

Runtime:

142 min

Cast:

Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Adam Driver

6.6

51%

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Flushed Away

(2006)

Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family

London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs, Spike and Whitey.

Runtime:

85 min

Director:

David Bowers, Sam Fell

Cast:

Hugh Jackman, Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen

6.6

73%

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24 Hour Party People

(2002)

Comedy, Drama, Music

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Ridi...

Runtime:

117 min

Director:

Michael Winterbottom

Cast:

Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Sean Harris, Lennie James, Lennie James

7.3

N/A

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13 Going on 30

(2004)

Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. With a little magic, her wish is granted, but it turns out that being thirty isn't as always as awesome as she thought it would be!

Runtime:

98 min

Director:

Gary Winick

Cast:

Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer, Judy Greer

6.2

65%

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Inkheart

(2008)

Adventure, Family, Fantasy

The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

Iain Softley

Cast:

Brendan Fraser, Sienna Guillory, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett, Paul Bettany

6.1

39%

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Topsy-Turvy

(1999)

Comedy, Drama, History, Music

After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.

Runtime:

160 min

Director:

Mike Leigh

Cast:

Allan Corduner, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Dexter Fletcher, Shirley Henderson

7.4

89%

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Little Dorrit

(2008)

Drama

The series tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her boss's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy an...

Runtime:

452 min

Director:

Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh, Diarmuid Lawrence

Cast:

Claire Foy, Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Courtenay, Kingsley Frances-Gray, Emma Pierson

8.3

N/A

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Wild Bill

(2011)

Drama

Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.

Runtime:

98 min

7.2

100%

N/A

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Burke & Hare

(2010)

Comedy, History, Horror, Thriller

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.

Runtime:

91 min

Director:

John Landis

Cast:

Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson, Tim Curry

6.2

32%

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The Cottage

(2008)

Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller

In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer and all hell breaks loose.

Runtime:

92 min

Director:

Paul Andrew Williams

Cast:

Andy Serkis, Reece Shearsmith, Jennifer Ellison, Steven O'Donnell, James Bierman

6.1

72%

N/A

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Einstein and Eddington

(2008)

Drama, History, TV Movie

A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas.

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Philip Martin

Cast:

David Tennant, Richard McCabe, Andy Serkis, Patrick Kennedy, Rebecca Hall

7.3

N/A

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Deathwatch

(2002)

Drama, Horror, Thriller, War

In the brutal trench fighting of the First World War, a British Infantry Company is separated from their regiment after a fierce battle. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed out German trench, abandoned except for a few dazed German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, a...

Runtime:

94 min

Director:

M.J. Bassett

Cast:

Jamie Bell, Rúaidhrí Conroy, Mike Downey, Laurence Fox, Roman Horak

6.0

25%

N/A

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Arabian Nights

(2000)

Drama, Family, Fantasy

Scheherezade puts herself in danger to save Sultan Schariar, her childhood friend, from the madness that has gripped him since the death of his cheating wife at his own hands.

Runtime:

175 min

Director:

Steve Barron

Cast:

Mili Avital, Dougray Scott, Jason Scott Lee, Vanessa Mae, Alan Bates

7.6

N/A

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Stormbreaker

(2006)

Action, Adventure, Family

Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed. Alex is recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the mission. He is sent to Cornwall to investigate a new computer system, which Darrius Sayle has created. He plans to give the new computer s...

Runtime:

93 min

Director:

Geoffrey Sax

Cast:

Sarah Bolger, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Damian Lewis, Ewan McGregor

5.1

35%

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Career Girls

(1997)

Drama

Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.

Runtime:

83 min

Director:

Mike Leigh

Cast:

Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman, Kate Byers, Mark Benton, Andy Serkis

7.2

88%

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Longford

(2006)

Crime, Drama, TV Movie

A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.

Runtime:

88 min

Director:

Tom Hooper

Cast:

Jim Broadbent, Samantha Morton, Andy Serkis, Lindsay Duncan

7.7

100%

N/A

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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

(2010)

Drama

A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s.

Runtime:

115 min

Director:

Mat Whitecross

Cast:

Andy Serkis, Tom Hughes, Olivia Williams, Naomie Harris, Bill Milner

6.6

76%

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Brighton Rock

(2010)

Crime, Drama, Thriller

Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

Runtime:

111 min

Director:

Rowan Joffe

Cast:

Andy Serkis, Helen Mirren, John Hurt, Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough

5.8

51%

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Shiner

(2000)

Action, Crime, Drama

The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.

Runtime:

99 min

Director:

John Irvin

Cast:

Michael Caine, Martin Landau, Andy Serkis, Claire Rushbrook, Danny Webb

6.0

46%

N/A

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The Escapist

(2002)

Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, but the evil Ricky kills Valerie anyway. Their baby is saved, and later Barnes is arres...

Runtime:

88 min

Director:

Gillies MacKinnon

Cast:

Jonny Lee Miller, Gary Lewis, Jodhi May, Andy Serkis

6.2

N/A

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Oliver Twist

(1999)

Drama

Based on Charles Dickens' novel, this adaptation traces the childhood of an orphan whose mother dies giving birth to him in an English work-house in the 1820s.

Runtime:

386 min

7.9

60%

N/A

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Sugarhouse

(2007)

Drama, Thriller

Tom is a middle-class city boy whose life has reached breaking point. he thinks D - a young desperate drug addict can give him what he needs. But what D’s offering comes with more than just a price tag…. Tom is completely out of his depth when he finds himself in D's abandoned warehouse attempting to do a deal with him. The two enter i...

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

Gary Love

Cast:

Steven Mackintosh, Ashley Walters, Andy Serkis, Adam Deacon

5.9

29%

N/A

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Among Giants

(1998)

Comedy, Romance

A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are friends, especially Ray with Steve, a young Romeo. Into the mix comes Gerry, an Australian with a spirit of adventure and mountain climbing skills. She wants a job, and against the others...

Runtime:

93 min

5.9

60%

N/A

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Stella Does Tricks

(1997)

Drama

A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.

Runtime:

99 min

Director:

Coky Giedroyc

Cast:

Kelly Macdonald, Andy Serkis, Hans Matheson

6.5

N/A

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Stories of Lost Souls

(2004)

Drama

Seven (or six - depending on the version) short stories of conquest, desperation and the will to overcome.

Runtime:

90 min

5.7

N/A

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