When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

He was also the film's second unit director which included directing aerial shots and battle scenes. He played an abusive boyfriend in the music video for Neneh Cherry's "Woman". One of his earliest feature film appearances was alongside Sacha Baron Cohen in The Jolly Boys' Last Stand.

He is popularly known for playing through performance capture to animate and voice computer-generated characters: Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and the Hobbit prequels (2012–2014) King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin (2011). Andrew Clement "Andy" Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English film actor director and author.