32 Facts About Paddy Considine

Patrick George Considine was born on 5 September 1973 and is an English actor, director, and screenwriter.

Paddy Considine 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.

Paddy Considine starred alongside Jude Law in the Sky Atlantic miniseries The Third Day.

Paddy Considine followed this up by directing and starring in his second feature Journeyman to critical acclaim.

Paddy Considine has appeared in several music videos, including Coldplay's "God Put a Smile upon Your Face" and the Arctic Monkeys' "Leave Before the Lights Come On".

Paddy 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.

Paddy Considine was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, where he still resides.

Paddy Considine grew up with his brother and four sisters in a council estate in Winshill, a village of Burton.

Paddy Considine attended, among other schools, Abbot Beyne Senior School and Burton College.

In 1994, Paddy Considine moved away to study photography at the University of Brighton.

At one point, Paddy Considine was threatened with expulsion, but graduated with a first-class BA.

Paddy Considine played the love-struck misfit Alfie, for which he won the Best Actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival.

Paddy 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, Paddy Considine starred in what was then the most significant role of his career, as Richard in Meadows' revenge film Dead Man's Shoes, a film he cowrote and for which he won the Best British Actor Award at the 2005 Empire Awards.

Paddy Considine appeared in the Spanish thriller Bosque de Sombras.

In 2007, Paddy 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 2011, Paddy Considine starred in a film adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's book Submarine, which Richard Ayoade wrote and directed.

Also in 2011, Paddy 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, written by Helen Edmundson and Neil McKay.

Paddy Considine starred in The World's End, as one of the "Five Musketeers" reattempting an "epic" pub crawl.

Paddy Considine previously worked with the cast and crew on Hot Fuzz.

Paddy Considine is writing a film from a ghost story called The Leaning, with plans to direct both films.

Paddy Considine 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.

Paddy Considine will portray Brendan Ingle in the upcoming biographical sports drama Giant opposite Mena Massoud as Naseem Hamed.

In 2007, Paddy Considine wrote and directed the short film Dog Altogether, starring Peter Mullan, partially based on Considine's father.

Paddy Considine left the band, the remaining members re-formed, calling themselves Oslo.

Paddy 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.

Paddy Considine had contacted Burgess after reading his book Telling Stories, to discuss meditation.

Paddy Considine penned the words while the band wrote the music.

Paddy Considine remains private in his personal life and once said if he ever became a celebrity, he would "disappear and go and make shoes like Daniel Day-Lewis".

In 2002, Paddy Considine married Shelley Insley, with whom he has been in a relationship since he was 18.

Paddy Considine was diagnosed by Helen Irlen herself in 2013 with Irlen syndrome, a condition in which the brain cannot adequately process visual stimuli.

Paddy Considine's condition has improved significantly since he began wearing purple Irlen filters, either as specially made contact lenses when on-set or as traditional tinted glasses.