Andy Serkis

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Andy Serkis wearing a motion capture suit.

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 "Your Home in the West"

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Andy Serkis in the opening scene to Peter Jackson's The Return of the King