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Andy Serkis

1964 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andy Serkis has received more than 17,311,503 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Andy Serkis is the 751st most popular actor (down from 716th in 2019), the 864th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 890th in 2019) and the 112th most popular British Actor.

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  • 17M

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  • 60.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 74

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Andy Serkis ranks 751 out of 13,578Before him are Robin Wright, Antonella Lualdi, Capucine, Mack Sennett, Maria Schneider, and Ajay Devgn. After him are Cybill Shepherd, Boris Karloff, Isabel Sarli, Tyler Perry, Anne Parillaud, and Benedict Cumberbatch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Andy Serkis ranks 38Before him are Tom Morello, Ernesto Valverde, Lenny Kravitz, Courtney Love, Gitanas Nausėda, and Famke Janssen. After him are Mehriban Aliyeva, Dražen Petrović, Oleksandr Turchynov, Lady Sarah Chatto, Giuseppe Conte, and Salvatore Schillaci.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andy Serkis ranks 864 out of 8,785Before him are Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430), Thomas Cavendish (1560), Malcolm IV of Scotland (1141), George Canning (1770), Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443), and James Gregory (1638). After him are Simon Cowell (1959), Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), Boris Karloff (1887), Rishi Sunak (1980), and Daniel Burley Woolfall (1852).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Andy Serkis ranks 112Before him are Derek Jacobi (1938), Pete Postlethwaite (1946), Imelda Staunton (1956), Rex Harrison (1908), Michael York (1942), and Ray Milland (1907). After him are Boris Karloff (1887), Benedict Cumberbatch (1976), Wentworth Miller (1972), Pat Hitchcock (1928), Terence Stamp (1938), and Orlando Bloom (1977).

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