Andy Serkis
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Andy Serkis | |
Lifetime | b. 20 April 1964 |
Portrayed | Gollum in: |
Pater Jackson's The Lord of the Rings | |
IMDb | imdb |
Andy Serkis played Gollum in The Lord of the Rings. He based the gulping swallow sound "gollum" on his pet cat coughing up a furball!
He is married to actress Lorraine Ashbourne, having met her while both were performing at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre in the play "Your Home in the West"