Andy Serkis: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Andy Serkis said elsewhere, not written here

When my wife Lorraine and I got together in 1990. We were in a play at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester when we suddenly realised we were falling in love.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 July 2017 source ↗

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Alexander Armstrong English actor, comedian, broadcaster and singer

Now. Although I am on tour and I will be deliriously happy when that finishes, because I'll be back home.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 November 2010 source ↗

David Haye British boxer

Right now – I’ve 35 years of experience to understand how to make the most of every day.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 April 2016 source ↗

Jessica Brown Findlay English actress

My wedding day last year. It was supposed to be 4 April and, in the end, it was 12 September.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 March 2021 source ↗

Ranulph Fiennes English explorer

In 1982, having travelled for three years to do the first journey around the earth on its polar axis. Charles Burton and I were trying to get from the north pole down to our ship on the edge of the Arctic Sea. We had to float for three months on a diminishing ice floe. Eventually we had to leave the floe and try to get to the ship in canoes with skis under them. In the maze of broken ice we saw its masts on the horizon. That second was probably my happiest moment.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2008 source ↗