Paddy Considine Biography

Patrick George Considine (born 5 September 1973) is an English actor, filmmaker, and musician. He has played a number of dark, troubled, and morally or mentally ambiguous characters. Considine frequently collaborates with director Shane Meadows. He has starred in supporting roles in films such as 24 Hour Party People (2002), In America (2003), My Summer of Love (2004), Cinderella Man (2005), Hot Fuzz (2007), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The World's End (2013) and Macbeth (2015), and leading roles in A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), Dead Man's Shoes (2004), The Cry of the Owl (2009), Blitz (2011), Honour (2014) and The Girl With All The Gifts (2016).

Considine came to prominence in the early 2000s with a string of performances in independent film that prompted The Observer to describe him as "the best-kept secret in British movies". In addition to leading and supporting roles in Hollywood films, he has acted in independent British films and television shows such as The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2014). He wrote and directed Tyrannosaur (2011), a film based on his directorial debut, the 2007 short film Dog Altogether. He has also acted in and directed several music videos, most notably Coldplay's video for "God Put a Smile upon Your Face" and the Arctic Monkeys video for "Leave Before the Lights Come On".

Considine has received an Evening Standard British Film Award, Empire Award and Thessaloniki Film Festival Awards, as well as eight other award nominations for his acting. He has also won a BAFTA Award, British Independent Film Award, Silver Lion at the 2007 Venice Film Festival and the Seattle International Film Festival Short Film Jury Award (Narrative Special Jury Prize) for his short film Dog Altogether. He won a second BAFTA Award, British Independent Film Award, and a World Cinema Directing Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival for Tyrannosaur.

Early life

Considine was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, where he still resides. He grew up with his brother and sisters in a council estate in Winshill, a suburb of Burton. Considine attended, among other schools, Abbot Beyne Senior School and Burton College. In 1990, Considine enrolled to do a National Diploma in Performing Arts at Burton College, where he first met Shane Meadows. Neither of them completed the course.

In 1994, Considine moved away to study photography at the University of Brighton. While there he studied under the social documentarian Paul Reas, who described one project, portraits of Considine's parents in their house in Winshill, as "fucking brilliant". At one point, Considine was threatened with expulsion, but graduated with a first-class B.A.

Acting career

After graduating from university, Meadows cast Considine in several short films, as well as his second feature, A Room for Romeo Brass (1999). Considine, in his screen debut, played the disturbed character Morell. Considine's performance in the film led to Pawel Pawlikowski casting him in his first starring role in Last Resort (2000). Considine played the love-struck misfit Alfie, for which he won the Best Actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. After coming to prominence for his roles as Alfie and Morell, Considine increased his profile during the early to mid-2000s with supporting and starring roles in cult films such as 24 Hour Party People and In America.

In 2004, Considine starred in what was then the most significant role of his career, as Richard in Meadows' revenge film Dead Man's Shoes (2004), a film he co-wrote and for which he won the Best British Actor award at the 2005 Empire Awards. In the same year, he starred in My Summer of Love, his second film with director Pawel Pawlikowski. Both films were recognised on the award circuit, where Considine earned five nominations and two wins. The following year, Considine played Frank Thorogood (the suspected murderer of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones) in Stoned (2005). It was around this time that Considine earned his reputation as a popular portrayer of cinema villains, antiheroes, and darker characters. 2005 also saw the release of Considine's second Hollywood film, Cinderella Man.

Considine appeared in the Spanish thriller Bosque de Sombras (2006). It was during the filming of this that Considine penned what later became his debut short, Dog Altogether. Considine claims that it was his co-star Gary Oldman who gave him confidence to make the film, which led to him thanking Oldman during his BAFTA acceptance speech. In 2006, he starred in Pu-239 as Timofey Berezin, a worker at a Russian nuclear facility who gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In 2007, Considine landed roles in two popular big budget films; the third film in the Bourne Trilogy film series, The Bourne Ultimatum, in which he played newspaper reporter Simon Ross, and Hot Fuzz, in which he had his first comedic role as DS Andy Wainwright. In 2008, Considine starred in My Zinc Bed a TV film for BBC / HBO. In 2009, he starred as Peter Hunter in the Channel 4 miniseries Red Riding: 1980, based on the novels by David Peace, and another collaboration with Meadows, Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee, a film which was unscripted, adlibbed, and filmed in five days at a cost of 48,000, and which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

In 2011, Considine starred in a film adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's book Submarine, which Richard Ayoade wrote and directed. Also in 2011, Considine appeared as Porter Nash in the adaptation of the Ken Bruen novel Blitz, as well as starring as Jack Whicher in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. In the same year, Considine was briefly reunited with one of his A Room for Romeo Brass co-stars, BAFTA-winning actress Vicky McClure. The two shared the screen in a television advert to promote "Films for Life Season". The ad was shot over two days in Spain.

Considine has consistently displayed a flair for regional and world accents; along with the Gypsy Midlander Morell in his first role in 1999's A Room for Romeo Brass, Considine played a Londoner in Stoned and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, a Russian nuclear plant worker in Pu-239, a Welshman in Submarine, Happy Now and Pride, an Irish immigrant in In America, a Mancunian in Red Riding, a Yorkshireman in My Summer of Love, an American in Cry of the Owl and Cinderella Man, and a West Countryman in Hot Fuzz. He has appeared in several music videos, most notably "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face" (2002) by Coldplay and Moloko's "Familiar Feeling" (2003), as well as the Arctic Monkeys track "Leave Before the Lights Come On" (2006), for which he wrote the video.

Considine starred in The World's End, as one of the "Five Musketeers" reattempting an "epic" pub crawl. Considine previously worked with the cast and crew on Hot Fuzz (2007). The film was released in the United Kingdom on 19 July 2013, and the United States on 23 August 2013. In August 2015, Considine confirmed that he was writing the screenplay for the film Journeyman, in which he will also star. The fiinjuran adaptation of non-fiction novel The Years of the Locust by Jon Hotten, the true story of a sociopathic boxing promoter, Fat Rick Parker, and his doomed relationship with his naive fighter, Tim Anderson. Considine is also writing a film from a ghost story called The Leaning, with plans to direct both films. He will continue to work with Shane Meadows on King of the Gypsies, a biopic of bare-knuckle fighter Bartley Gorman, whom Considine met and became friends with whilst working as a photographer. In 2015, Considine was announced as having been cast along Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton in the UK zombie film in The Girl With All The Gifts, based on the 2014 novel The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey, expected release 2016.

On 4 October 2015, it was via Considine's official Twitter page that he was about to join the cast of Birmingham-set gangster series Peaky Blinders, seeing him reunited with She Who Brings Gifts director Colm McCarthy.

In April 2017, Considine made his professional stage debut in The Ferryman at the Royal Court Theatre, ahead of a transfer to the Gielgud Theatre in the West End. It is the fastest selling play in Royal Court Theatre history.

Film-making career

In 2007, Paddy Considine wrote and directed the award-winning short film Dog Altogether, starring Peter Mullan, partially based on the life of Considine's father. Dog Altogether won the 2007 BAFTA award for Best Short Film, as well as a Silver Lion for Best Short Film at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, a Best British Short at the 2007 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA), and the Seattle International Film Festival Short Film Jury Award (Narrative Special Jury Prize), as well as a World Cinema Directing Award for his feature directorial debut Tyrannosaur at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

Musical career

After a short stint in a virtual comedy thrash group called Grunt during college, Considine and Shane Meadows formed the band She Talks To Angels (inspired by the Black Crowes song of the same name) with friends Richard Eaton, Simon Hudson, and Nick Hemming, with Meadows as vocalist and Considine as drummer. Considine left the band, the remaining members re-formed, calling themselves Oslo. Appearing on Jools Holland's show, whilst Considine had moved on to study photography at the University of Brighton, where he formed a new group, a Britpop band called Pedestrians. He is now in a rock band called Riding the Low, who have released an EP 'They Will Rob You of Your Gifts' (2009), and an album 'What Happened to the Get To Know Ya?' (2013).

Considine and Riding the Low got their big music break in 2014 after Tim Burgess of the Charlatans invited them to perform at his curated Tim Peaks Diner event at Festival No 6 in Portmeirion, Wales. Considine had contacted Burgess after reading his book Telling Stories, to discuss meditation. "The conversation developed and Tim generously offered to let us play at Portmeirion, It led to the band supporting the Charlatans at the O2 Academy in Leicester this year. I didn't get stage fright. We were ready. We did our history off-camera. We have evolved. We have got better. At first it was raw - all we had was arrogance. We had a long way to go and we learnt our craft at all these pub gigs. We didn't expect a leg-up just because an actor is in the band." said Considine

2016 saw the band release their second full-length album 'Are Here to Help the Neighbourhood', recorded in Rockfield Studios and produced by Chris Slusarenko. Considine penned the words while the band wrote the music.

Personal life

Considine remains private in his personal life and once stated that if he ever became a celebrity, he'd "disappear and go and make shoes like Daniel Day-Lewis" (a reference to Day-Lewis' sabbatical working as a cobbler in Italy). Considine lives in his home town of Burton upon Trent with his family. Considine's late father was Irish. He has been with his wife Shelley since he was 18 years old.

Health

In April 2011, Considine revealed that he had been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. Although initially reassured by the diagnosis, he continued to struggle in social situations until he was diagnosed in 2013 with Irlen syndrome, a condition in which the brain cannot adequately process visual stimuli. His condition has improved significantly since he began wearing purple Irlen filters.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1999	A Room for Romeo Brass	Morell
2000	Last Resort	Alfie
2000	Born Romantic	Ray
2001	Happy Now	Glen Marcus
2001	The Martins	Hatfield Recorder Editor
2002	24 Hour Party People	Rob Gretton
2002	Doctor Sleep	Elliot Spruggs
2002	My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117	Him	Short Film
2002	Bouncer	Knife Man	Short Film
2003	In America	Johnny
2004	Dead Man's Shoes	Richard	Also writer
2004	My Summer of Love	Phil
2005	Cinderella Man	Mike Wilson
2005	Stoned	Frank Thorogood
2006	Bosque de Sombras	Norman
2006	Pu-239	Timofey Berezin
2006	This is England		Uncredited writer
2007	Hot Fuzz	DS Andy Wainwright
2007	The Bourne Ultimatum	Simon Ross
2007	Dog Altogether		Short film; writer and director
2009	The Cry of the Owl	Robert Forrester
2009	Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee	Le Donk
2010	Submarine	Graham T. Purvis
2011	Blitz	Sgt. Porter Nash
2011	Tyrannosaur		Writer and director
2012	Girl on a Bicycle	Derek
2012	Now Is Good	Father
2013	The World's End	Steven Prince
2013	The Double	Jack as PT Kommander	Uncredited
2014	Honour	Bounty Hunter
2014	Pride	Dai Donovan
2015	Child 44	Vladimir Malevich
2015	Miss You Already	Jago
2015	Macbeth	Banquo
2016	The Girl with All the Gifts	Sergeant Eddie Parks
2017	The Death of Stalin	Comrade Andryev	Post-production
2017	Journeyman	Matty Burton	Post-prodctuon; also writer and director
2017	Funny Cow	Angus	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	My Zinc Bed	Paul Peplow	Television film
2008	Pu-239	Timofey Berezin	Television film
2009	Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980	Peter Hunter	Television film
2011	The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder at Road Hill House	Detective Inspector Jack Whicher	Television film
2013	The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder in Angel Lane	Detective Inspector Jack Whicher	Television film
2014	The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Beyond the Pale	Detective Inspector Jack Whicher	Television film
2014	The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: 'Til Death Do Us Part	Detective Inspector Jack Whicher	Television film
2016	Peaky Blinders	Father John Hughes	4 episodes

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue
2017	The Ferryman	Quinn Carney	Royal Court Theatre Gielgud Theatre

Music videos

Year	Artist	Title	Notes
2003	Coldplay	"God Put a Smile upon Your Face"
2003	Moloko	"Familiar Feeling"
2006	The Arctic Monkeys	"Leave Before the Lights Come On"	Also Writer

Awards and nominations

Year	Group	Award	Film	Result
2000	Thessaloniki Film Festival Award	Best Actor (tied with Misel Maticevic)	Last Resort
2003	British Independent Film Awards	Best Actor	In America
2004	British Independent Film Awards	Best Actor	Dead Man's Shoes
2004	British Independent Film Awards	Best Screenplay (shared with Shane Meadows)	Dead Man's Shoes
2004	British Independent Film Awards	Best Supporting Actor/Actress	My Summer of Love
2004	London Critics Circle Film Awards	ALFS Award - British Actor of the Year	In America
2004	Golden Satellite Award	Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama	In America
2004	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	In America
2005	Empire Awards	Best British Actor	Dead Man's Shoes
2005	Evening Standard British Film Awards	Best Actor	Dead Man's Shoes
2005	London Critics Circle Film Awards	ALFS Award - British Actor of the Year	Dead Man's Shoes
2006	British Independent Film Award	Best Actor	In America
2006	London Critics Circle Film Awards	ALFS Award - British Supporting Actor of the Year	Cinderella Man
2007	Venice Film Festival Award	Silver Lion - Best Short Film	Dog Altogether
2007	British Independent Film Award	Best British Short Film	Dog Altogether
2007	Seattle International Film Festival Award	Special Jury Prize, Narrative	Dog Altogether
2007	Edinburgh International Film Festival Award	Best British Short Film	Dog Altogether
2008	BAFTA Awards	Best Short Film	Dog Altogether
2011	Sundance International Film Festival Award	The World Cinema Award for Directing: Dramatic	Tyrannosaur
2011	Nantucket Film Festival Award	Best Writer/Director	Tyrannosaur
2011	Munich Film Festival	CineVision Award Outstanding Debut Feature	Tyrannosaur
2011	Voices Festival of independent European Cinema	Voices Festival Prize: Best Film	Tyrannosaur
2011	Dinard British Film Festival France	The Golden Hitchcock: Grand Jury Prize/Cin+ Award	Tyrannosaur
2011	Dinard British Film Festival France	The Allianz Award: Best Screenplay	Tyrannosaur
2011	Zagreb Film Festival Croatia	T-Com Audience Award: Best Film	Tyrannosaur
2011	Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece	Fischer Audience Award (For a film in the Open Horizons section)	Tyrannosaur
2011	Mar del Plata Film Festival	Jury Special Award	Tyrannosaur
2011	Mar del Plata Film Festival	Silver Astor for Best Screenplay	Tyrannosaur
2011	Mar del Plata Film Festival	Argentine Film Critics Association ACCA Award	Tyrannosaur
2011	Mar del Plata Film Festival	SIGNIS (World Catholic Association for Communication) Award	Tyrannosaur
2011	Stockholm Film Festival	Best First Feature	Tyrannosaur
2011	British Independent Film Awards	Best British Independent Film	Tyrannosaur
2011	British Independent Film Awards	Best Director	Tyrannosaur
2011	British Independent Film Awards	The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director)	Tyrannosaur
2011	British Independent Film Awards	Best Achievement in Production	Tyrannosaur
2011	International Press Academy Satellite Awards	Best Screenplay: Original	Tyrannosaur
2011	International Press Academy Satellite Awards	Best First Feature	Tyrannosaur
2012	Independent Spirit Awards	Best International Film	Tyrannosaur
2012	The Guardian First Film Award	Best First Film	Tyrannosaur
2012	London Critics Circle Film Awards	The Virgin Atlantic Award - Breakthrough British Film-Maker	Tyrannosaur
2012	British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA)	Outstanding debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer	Tyrannosaur
2012	Evening Standard British Film Awards	Best Film	Tyrannosaur
2012	Evening Standard British Film Awards	Best Screenplay	Tyrannosaur
2012	Jameson Empire Awards	Best British Film	Tyrannosaur
2012	Bucharest International Film Festival	Best Film	Tyrannosaur
2012	Bucharest International Film Festival	Critics' Choice Award	Tyrannosaur
2012	Transilvania International Film Festival	FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) Award	Tyrannosaur