Paddy Considine

Paddy Considine

Acting
Born 1973-09-05 Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK 8 credit(s) Popularity 2.1
Patrick George Considine (born 5 September 1973) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and musician. He is known for playing antiheroes in 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 the 2007 Venice Film Festival. His first major onscreen appearance was in his first coll...
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Patrick George Considine (born 5 September 1973) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and musician. He is known for playing antiheroes in 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 the 2007 Venice Film Festival.

His first major onscreen appearance was in his first collaboration with filmmaker/director Shane Meadows, A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), and he then played Alfie in 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), and Dead Man's Shoes (2004), winning the 2005 Empire Award for Best British Actor and a nomination for the BIFA for Best Actor. He wrote and directed Dog Altogether (2007), winning a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film, and its 2011 feature film adaptation Tyrannosaur which won BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. He directed and starred in Journeyman.

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

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MobLand poster
MobLand
as Kevin Harrigan
2025-03-30
Small Town, Big Story poster
Small Town, Big Story
as Séamus Proctor
2025-02-27
The Third Day poster
The Third Day
as Mr. Martin
2020-09-14
The Outsider poster
The Outsider
as Claude Bolton
2020-01-12
Informer poster
Informer
as Gabe Waters
2018-10-16
The Late Late Show with James Corden poster
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
2015-03-23
Peaky Blinders poster
Peaky Blinders
as Father John Hughes
2013-09-12

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