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Andy Serkis | |
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Born | Andrew Clement Serkis April 20, 1964 Ruislip Manor, Middlesex |
Characters played | Ulysses Klaue |
Andrew Clement Serkis (born April 20, 1964) is an actor who plays Ulysses Klaue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and reprises the role for What If...?.
Biography[]
Serkis played Klaue in Avengers: Age of Ultron and Black Panther.
He achieved critical acclaim for his motion capture performance as Gollum and Smeagol in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films as well as Caesar in The Planet of the Apes reboot series. He was also the titular character in the 2005 version of King Kong as well as Supreme Leader Snoke in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
As a director, he provided second unit work for The Hobbit series while also directing Heavenly Sword, Breathe, The Ruins of Empires, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, and Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
Other notable works include The New Statesman, Made in Spain, Streetwise, Royal Deceit, Finney, Stella Does Tricks, Mojo, Loop, The Jump, Touching Evil, Oliver Twist, Arabian Nights, Pandaemonium, Five Seconds to Spare, The Escapist, The Simpsons, 13 Going on 30, Blessed, Stormbreaker, The Prestige, Flushed Away, Extraordinary Rendition, The Cottage, Little Dorrit, Inkheart, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Death of a Superhero, Wild Bill, The Adventures of Tintin, Arthur Christmas, Heavenly Sword, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Longshot, A Christmas Carol, The Letter for the King, The Sandman, Hilda, and The Batman.