Andy Serkis is an award-winning actor who has earned acclaim from both critics and audiences for his work in a range of memorable roles.  He gained legions of fans around the globe for his performance as “Gollum” in the Academy Award®-winning The Lord of the Rings trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson.  Serkis won an Empire Award for his role, in addition to sharing in several Outstanding Ensemble Cast Awards, including a Screen Actors Guild Award®.  He reunited with Jackson in the director’s epic retelling of King Kong, taking performance capture to another level as the titular character, and between 2011-2017 he took performance capture to new heights with his heartbreaking and critically acclaimed portrayal of “Caesar” in the Planet of the Apes trilogy. Serkis is currently in pre-production, set to direct as well as reprise his role as the titular character in The Lord of The Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, (working title) with Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh producing. The film is scheduled for release in December 2027 from Warner Bros/New Line. In February of 2020, he was honored by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) at the 73rd EE British Academy Film Awards with one the organization’s highest honor, the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award. 

In 2011, Serkis founded The Imaginarium alongside producer Jonathan Cavendish, a multi- platform production company linked to a performance capture studio focusing on next-generation storytelling. The first Imaginarium projects included two films released in October 2017- Breathe, directed by Serkis, and The Ritual.