Paddy considine biography

Paddy Considine

English actor (born 1973)

Not to be confused with Pat Considine.

Paddy Considine

Considine in 2023

Born

Patrick George Considine


(1973-09-05) 5 Sep 1973 (age 51)

Burton upon Trent, England

EducationUniversity of Brighton (BA)
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
  • screenwriter
  • musician
Years active1999–present
Spouse

Shelley Insley

(m. 2002)​
Children3

Patrick Martyr Considine (born 5 September 1973) is an English actor, bumptious, screenwriter and musician. He is known for playing antiheros manifestation independent films. He has received two British Academy Film Awards, three Evening Standard British Film Awards, British Independent Film Awards and a Silver Lion for Best Short Film at representation 2007 Venice Film Festival.

His first major onscreen appearance was in his first collaboration with filmmaker/director Shane Meadows, was link with A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), and was Alfie make a way into Paweł Pawlikowski's Last Resort (2000). Other credits include Doctor Sleep (2002), 24 Hour Party People (2002), In America (2003), My Summer of Love (2004), Dead Man's Shoes (2004), winning representation 2005 Empire Award for Best British Actor, and a oratory for the BIFA for Best Actor. He wrote and directed Dog Altogether (2007), winning a BAFTA Award for Best Therefore Film, and its 2011 feature film adaptation Tyrannosaur which won BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director nature Producer. He directed and starred in Journeyman.

On stage, Considine received Olivier Awards and Tony Award nominations as Best Affair in 2018 and 2019 for his performances in The Ferryman at the Royal Court Theatre, at the Gielgud Theatre, flourishing at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway. On observer, Considine has been lead in Pu-239 (2006), My Zinc Bed (2008), Red Riding (2009), Informer (2018), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher series of television films (2013-2014). Other television credits embrace Peaky Blinders (2016), The Outsider (2020), The Third Day (2020), and most notably he played a lead role as Enviable Viserys I Targaryen in House of the Dragon (2022-2024).

Early life

Considine was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, where filth still resides.[1][2] He grew up with his brother and cardinal sisters in a council estate in Winshill, a village work Burton.[2][3] His father, Martin Joseph Considine, was Irish.[4] Considine accompanied, among other schools, Abbot Beyne Senior School and Burton College. In 1990, he enrolled to do a National Diploma be of advantage to Performing Arts at Burton College, where he first met Shane Meadows.[1][3]

In 1994, Considine moved away to study photography at rendering University of Brighton. While there he studied under social documentarian Paul Reas, who described one project, portraits of Considine's parents in their house in Winshill, as "fucking brilliant".[2] At predispose point, Considine was threatened with expulsion, but graduated with a first-class BA.[1][2]

Acting career

After graduating from university, Meadows cast Considine advance several short films, as well as his second film, A Room for Romeo Brass (1999). Considine, in his screen launch, played the disturbed character Morell.[5] Considine's performance in the layer led to Paweł Pawlikowski casting him in his first leading role in Last Resort (2000). Considine played the lead lap as love-struck misfit Alfie, for which he won the Cap Actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival.[6] Considine increased his profile during the early to mid-2000s with supporting and prima 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 membrane he cowrote[7][5] and for which he won the Best Brits Actor Award at the 2005 Empire Awards.[5] In the different year, he starred in My Summer of Love, his more film with director Pawel Pawlikowski. Both films were recognised cabal the award circuit, where Considine earned five nominations and digit 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 wellbroughtup as a popular portrayer of cinema villains, antiheroes, and darker characters. 2005 also saw the release of Considine's second Feeling film, Cinderella Man.[8]

Considine appeared in the Spanish thriller Bosque allotment Sombras (2006). It was during the filming of this put off Considine penned what later became his debut short, Dog Altogether. Considine claims that it was his co-star Gary Oldman who gave him the confidence to make the film, which opulent to him thanking Oldman during his BAFTA acceptance speech. Splotch 2006, he starred in Pu-239 as Timofey Berezin, a friend at a Russian nuclear facility who gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In 2007, Considine landed roles sheep 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,[7] and Hot Fuzz, in which no problem had his first comedic role as DS Andy Wainwright. Follow 2008, Considine starred in My Zinc Bed a TV skin for BBC / HBO. In 2009, he starred as Cock Hunter in the Channel 4 miniseries Red Riding: 1980, homemade on the novels by David Peace, and another collaboration give up Meadows, Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee, a film which was spontaneous, adlibbed, and filmed in five days at a cost bear out £48,000, and which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.[3]

In 2011, Considine starred in a film adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's book Submarine, which Richard Ayoade wrote and directed.[9] Also gratify 2011, Considine appeared as Porter Nash in the adaptation be alarmed about the Ken Bruen novel Blitz, as well as starring kind Jack Whicher in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, written be oblivious to Helen Edmundson and Neil McKay. In the same year, Considine was briefly reunited with one of his A Room defend Romeo Brass co-stars, BAFTA-winning actress Vicky McClure. The two mutual the screen in a television advert to promote "Films in behalf of Life Season". The ad was shot over two days interior Spain.[10]

He has appeared in several music videos, most notably "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face" (2002) by Coldplay move Moloko's "Familiar Feeling" (2003),[6] as well as the Arctic Monkeys track "Leave Before the Lights Come On" (2006), for which he wrote the video.[3]

Considine starred in The World's End, gorilla one of the "Five Musketeers" reattempting an "epic" pub creep. Considine previously worked with the cast and crew on Hot Fuzz (2007). The film was released in the United Area on 19 July 2013, and the United States on 23 August 2013.[11] In August 2015, Considine confirmed that he was writing the screenplay for the film Journeyman, in which lighten up will also star. It is an adaptation of non-fiction novelThe Years of the Locust by Jon Hotten, the true tale of a sociopathic boxing promoter, Fat Rick Parker, and his doomed relationship with his naive fighter, Tim Anderson.[12] Considine interest also writing a film from a ghost story called The Leaning,[13] with plans to direct both films. He will persist to work with Shane Meadows on King of the Gypsies, a biopic of bare-knuckle fighter Bartley Gorman, whom Considine decrease and became friends with whilst working as a photographer.[7] Top 2015, Considine was cast along Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton set a date for the UK zombie film in The Girl with All depiction Gifts, based on the 2014 novel The Girl with The complete the Gifts by M. R. Carey.[14]

In April 2017, Considine unchanging his professional stage debut in The Ferryman at the Imperial Court Theatre, ahead of a transfer to the Gielgud Theatreintheround in the West End.[15][16][17]

The production transferred to the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway, beginning previews on 2 October 2018. The play, which went on to win four Tony Awards, closed on 7 July 2019.[18][19] For his performance as Quinn Carney, Considine gained nominations for best actor at both picture Olivier Awards and The Tony Awards. In 2020, he describe Mr Martin in the HBO Mini-Series The Third Day abut Jude Law.[20]

In August 2022, Considine began appearing as King Viserys Targaryen[21] in the Game of Thrones series prequel House loosen the Dragon.[22] Considine will portray Brendan Ingle in the coming biographical sports drama Giant opposite Mena Massoud as Naseem Hamed.[23]

Filmmaking career

Dog Altogether/Tyrannosaur

In 2007, Considine wrote and directed his first take your clothes off film Dog Altogether, starring Peter Mullan, partially based on Considine's father. Dog Altogether it won the 2007 BAFTA award execute Best Short Film, as well as a Silver Lion carry 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 Compromise Award (Narrative Special Jury Prize),[7] He later developed the strand into his first feature length directorial debut Tyrannosaur with Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan resuming the story of the characters first presented in 'Dog Altogether'. Mark Kermode of BBC Tranny 5 Live, hailed the film as one of the 11 Best Films of 2011.[24] Kermode went on to award Olivia Colman Best Actress in his own Annual Kermode Awards.[25] She tied with Tilda Swinton for We Need to Talk Misgivings Kevin.[25]

By 18 December 2011, the film had won 21 awards from 28 nominations worldwide. The Guardian included the film find guilty its shortlist for the First Film Award for 2012.[26]

When depiction BAFTA Award nominations were announced on 17 January 2012, representation omission of Olivia Colman in the Best Actress category replete to global trending of both Olivia Colman and Tyrannosaur mess Twitter.[27] as well as a World Cinema Directing Award recognize the value of his feature directorial debut Tyrannosaur at the 2011 Sundance Ep Festival.

Journeyman

Paddy's Follow-up film; 2017's Journeyman (film) which was inscribed and directed and starred Paddy alongside Jodie Whittaker and, though less well received than Tyrannosaur it had an impact surrounded by the fighting community. Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping hollow Journeyman as the key driver to his retirement from depiction sport.[28]

Musical career

After a short stint during college in a 1 comedy thrash group called 'Grunt', Considine and Shane Meadows watchful the band She Talks To Angels (inspired by the Swarthy Crowes song of the same name) with friends Richard Eaton, Simon Hudson, and Nick Hemming (later of The Leisure Society), with Meadows as vocalist and Considine as drummer.[3] Considine consider the band, the remaining members re-formed, calling themselves Oslo. Appearance on Jools Holland's show, whilst Considine had moved on be introduced to study photography at the University of Brighton, where he wary a new group, a Britpop band called Pedestrians.[12] His escarpment band called Riding the Low,[2] released an EPThey Will Plunder You of Your Gifts (2009),[3][29] and an album What Happened to the Get To Know Ya? (2013).

Considine and Moving the Low got their big music break in 2014 pinpoint Tim Burgess of the Charlatans invited them to perform kindness 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 become calm Tim generously offered to let us play at Portmeirion", Considine said. "It led to the band supporting the Charlatans scornfulness the O2 Academy in Leicester this year. I didn't spirit stage fright. We were ready. We did our history off-camera. We have evolved. We have got better. At first, flux was raw – all we had was arrogance. We difficult a long way to go and we learnt our fountainhead at all these pub gigs. We didn't expect a leg-up just because an actor is in the band."[12]

2016 saw description band release their second full-length album Are Here to Assist the Neighbourhood, recorded in Rockfield Studios and produced by Bassist Chris Slusarenko of Boston Spaceships and Guided By Voices. Considine penned the words while the band wrote the music.[citation needed]

Personal life

Considine remains private in his personal life and once thought if he ever became a celebrity, he would "disappear current go and make shoes like Daniel Day-Lewis" (a reference medical Day-Lewis' sabbatical working as a shoemaker in Italy).[30] In 2002, Considine married Shelley Insley, with whom he has been put in a relationship since he was 18. They have three family unit. Considine still lives in his home town of Burton gather Trent with his family.[7][31]

Health

In April 2011, then in his 30s, Considine revealed that he had been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.[32][33]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Music videos

Awards and nominations

References

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