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Paddy Considine
Paddy (Patrick) Considine, born 5th September 1974 in the Midlands town of Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Considine has garnered critical acclaim over the years for his diversity of roles, for his portrayals of many memorable anti-heroes and mastery of accents, using a different speaking voice for many of the movies he has appeared in. Despite his numerous popular lead and supporting roles including a number of high profile Hollywood productions, Considine is intensely private with his personal life and is known for his apathetic stance towards celebrity and the ideals of Hollywood, once stating "If I ever become a celebrity, I'll f*cking disappear and go and make shoes like Daniel Day Lewis."
As a teenager Considine studied a Performing Arts course at Burton College where he met with friend and director Shane Meadows who together formed a band called 'She talks to angels' (Paddy AKA "Bam-Bam" was their Drummer). Neither finished the and Paddy went on to study photography at Brighton University where he earned a first class honours degree.
After returning from university old friend Shane Meadows cast Considine in his first role in a feature film as the disturbed character Morell in ' A Room For Romeo Brass' (1999). Despite the films huge success at the Edinburgh film festival roumer has it that Paddy found himself at the local Job center the Monday following its premiere. Paddy then worked on several non-profit, unfunded short films with Meadows. However, Paddy's outstanding performance in ' A Room For Romeo Brass' had not gone unnoticed and he soon found himself cast in Pawel Pawlikowski's 'The Last Resort' (2000) the following year. Playing the love struck misfit Alfie, for which he won the best actor award at the Thessaloniki film festival.
Further roles ensued and Paddy has since worked alongside actors such as Matt Damon, Russell Crowe,Renée Zellweger, Uma Thurman and Gary Oldman and has gone on to gain awards and nominations at numerous British film awards including one for his touching role as Johnny in Jim Sheridan's ' In America' (2003).
As-well as his lead roles Paddy has had a number of scene stealing support roles in films such as ' 24 Hour Party People' (2002), 'Born Romantic' (2000), 'The Martins' (2001) and ' Stoned' (2005) working alongside the likes of Steve Coogan, Lee Evans, Jane Horrocks, Peter Kay, David Morrissey and Cathy Burke to name a few.
Considine asserted his importance within the film world in his popular and widely recognised award winning role as Richard the revengeful brother in the applauded film ' Dead Man's Shoes ' (2004) which he co-wrote with Shane Meadows. This performance is widely considered to be one of the strongest performances in British cinema history. Richard is seen as the defying role of Considine's career.2004 was also witness to the exceptional supporting role as Phil the Born again Christian in Pawlikowski's award winning ' My Summer Of Love' (2004) which didn't go unnoticed, receiving two Best Supporting Actor nominations.
2005 saw Paddy's first major Hollywood release hit the screen in the boxing biopic; ' Cinderella Man' (2005) alongside Hollywood A-listers; Russell Crowe and Renée Zellwegger. ' Cinderella Man' was closely followed by a standout performance as the 'killer' of Rolling Stones founder Bryan Jones in the highly criticised and relatively obscure movie; ' Stoned' (2005).
Having publicly shown a disappointment with the outcome of ' Stoned' Considine took a huge leap of faith when agreeing to work with another first-time director; Koldo Serra in the Spanish financed thriller 'Backwoods' AKA 'Bosque de Sombras' (2006) a widely disparaged movie, sadly resulting in what Considine consider's to be the worst performance of his career. However, all was not lost, 'Backwoods' can be directly attributed as being the film that not only put Paddy in contact with one of his acting heros, Co-star and Brit legend; Gary Oldman but also giving Paddy the inspiration to pen his first solo screenplay which became 'Dog Altogether'.
Following several professionally disappointing movies in 2005 and 2006, 2007 began strongly with the release of the ' Hot Fuzz' (2007) from the makers of the British cult classic; 'Shaun of the Dead' (2004) .Critically, the movie received many positive reviews, and was rated as highly as 'Shaun of the Dead', The film was also a huge financial success and generated £7.1 million in its first weekend of release in the UK and $5.8 in the US. Paddy made the most of a supporting role within a star studded british cast (including Simon Pegg, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent and Timothy Dalton) a strong performance resulting in several scene stealing moments.
The success of ' Hot Fuzz' was shortly followed by the release of the third installment of the Jason Bourne spy thriller saga; ' The Bourne Ultimatum' (2007) Which saw Paddy go up against the Movie's Star lead; Matt Damon. Ultimatum is by far the most commercially successful film adaptation of a Robert Ludlum Bourne novel, and was a major box office success worldwide. ' The Bourne Ultimatum' earned $69.2 million in its opening weekend, a record for a single opening in August and totaled $422.9 million worldwide as of November 18, 2007, higher than either predecessor.
As well as ' Hot Fuzz' and ' The Bourne Ultimatum' 2007 saw the release of Paddy's directorial debut; 'Dog Altogether' (2007). Considine directed and wrote 'Dog Altogether', partially based on life of his father Joseph. 'Dog Altogether' went on to win a Silver Lion Award at the 2007 Venice Film Festival for Best Short Film, and a BIFA Award for Best British Short at the 2007 British International Film Awards. 'Dog' stars Peter Mullan in the lead role as Joseph; a man who is plagued by violence and rage that is drives him to self destruction.The film also featured British actress; Olivia Colman and is the second of four successful collaborations with the actress ( Hot Fuzz, Dog Altogether, Le Donk, Tyrannosaur).
2007 also saw Paddy take his first steps into the world of TV movies in a successful partnership with HBO Films (US) beginning with ' Pu-239' (2007) a black comedy about the Russian Plutonium black market co-staring Aussie star Radha Mitchell with Executive Producers including George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh. ' Pu-239' was well received by viewers In America which quickly sealed the deal for the second of the HBO TV movies; 'My Zinc bed' a somber story, touching on addiction, love and people lost and alone in the modern world. 'My Zinc Bed' stars Considine alongside Uma Thurman and fellow Brit Jonathan Pryce and was shown on the BBC (UK) and HBO (US) during the Autumn of 2008.
2009 so far looks set to see five projects emerge; 'Le Donk' a comedy mockumentary directed by Shane Meadows, 'Cry of the owl' directed by Jamie Thraves (Coldplay's 'God put a smile upon your face') a thriller adapted from the Patricia Highsmith novel of the same name, about a woman who falls in love with her stalker which Co-stars Julia Stiles (Bourne Ultimatum) ,' Tyrannosaur' a follow-up to 2007's 'Dog Altogether'. ' Tyrannosaur' is about a woman's journey to find the strength to leave an abusive relationship, and 'King of the Gypsies' based on the life of Gypsy Bare-knuckle boxing champion; Bartley Gorman.
Between films Paddy has found time for involvement in popular music videos for the likes of UK indie-rock darlings; The Arctic Monkeys with 'Leave before the lights come on' (2006) for which he starred and wrote, and appearances in Coldplay's 'God put a smile upon your face' (2003) and Moloko's 'Familiar feeling' (2003) As well as a voice over on the TV advert for hit EA soccer computer game 'FIFA 07'.
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Exclusive Tyrannosaur Screening with Paddy Considine Q&A -
24 January 2012
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Considine & Bell win writing awards at Nantucket Film Festival -
27 June 2011
-Actors Paddy Considine and Lake Bell were rewarded for their screenwriting skills at the 2011 Nantucket Film Festival at the weekend (26Jun11).-Considine received the Best Writer/Director Award for his film in competition, Tyrannosaur, while Bell's Worst Enemy landed he
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Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee: Paddy Considine -
28 October 2009
eadows returns with Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee, a hilarious comedy about Rock 'n' roll roadie Le Donk, played by LOVEFiLM favourite Paddy Considine. Le Donk sees a great opportunity when he spots up-and-coming rapper Scor-Zay-Zee and takes the fledgling artist under his wing
Paddy Considine - what members say
review by from Surrey
Do not be afraid, they really are talking like normal people! 14 January 2005
review by from Leicester
Short and Sweet 22 February 2006
review by from Bromsgrove UK
Overall this movie is a must see and must not be missed! 6 August 2004
Paddy Considine - filmography
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Blitz
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Jason Statham, Luke Evans, David Morrissey
Director: Elliott Lester
Certificate: 
Watch now: £3.49
Jason Statham (The Expendables) heads up full-on London cop thriller Blitz as the tough uncompromising and utterly un-PC Detective Brant, teamed with an unlikely partner in Sgt Porter Nash (Paddy Considine - The Bourne Ultimatum). Together they investigate a series of vigilante cop murders. With ..read more »
 
66%
from 12,350 members
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Blitz - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Jason Statham, Luke Evans, David Morrissey
Director: Rob Hardy, Elliott Lester
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Watch now: £3.49
Tough guys Jason Statham (THE TRANSPORTER) and Paddy Considine (DEAD MAN'S SHOES) team up for this action-packed, London-based thriller. Statham and Considine star as detectives on the trail of a cop-killing serial murderer.
66%
from 5,296 members
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Tyrannosaur
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Peter Mullan, Eddie Marsan, Olivia Colman
Director: Paddy Considine
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"Tyrannosaur" is the story of Joseph a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding ..read more »
77%
from 7,972 members
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Tyrannosaur - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Peter Mullan, Eddie Marsan, Olivia Colman
Director: Paddy Considine
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Respected actor Paddy Considine moves to the director's chair for the first time with this emotionally powerful drama. Joseph (Peter Mullan) is a short-tempered alcoholic with a violent streak and just enough sense to know his life has gone terribly wrong. After getting in a fight with three men ..read more »
78%
from 2,761 members
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Submarine
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine, Noah Taylor
Director: Richard Ayoade
Certificate: 
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Producers Warp Films (This Is England, Four Lions) and director Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) present a comedy which follows a 15-year old boy (Craig Roberts, Jane Eyre) with two objectives: to lose his virginity to the girl of his dreams before his next birthday, and to stop his mother (Sally ..read more »
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from 17,452 members
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Submarine - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine, Noah Taylor
Director: Richard Ayoade
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Producers Warp Films (This Is England, Four Lions) and director Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) present a comedy which follows a 15-year old boy (Craig Roberts, Jane Eyre) with two objectives: to lose his virginity to the girl of his dreams before his next birthday, and to stop his mother (Sally ..read more »
70%
from 3,940 members
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The Red Riding Trilogy
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Paddy Considine, Michelle Dockery
Director: Anand Tucker, Julian Jarrold, James Marsh
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Compelling, complex, gripping and genuinely disturbing, THE RED RIDING TRILOGY is a breathtaking, neo-noir epic based on horrific, factual events and adapted for the screen by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LAOTHING IN LAS VEGAS, TIDELAND) from David Peace's series of groundbreaking novels. The Red Riding ..read more »
70%
from 3,901 members
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The Cry of the Owl
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles, Karl Pruner
Director: Jamie Thraves
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A troubled young man retreats from the big city and his ex-wife for the tranquility of a small town. He is drawn into a relationship with a young woman whose boyfriend ends up dead, leaving the new arrival as a suspect.
52%
from 481 members
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Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Paddy Considine, Scor-Zay-Zee, Olivia Colman
Director: Shane Meadows
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Rock 'n' roll roadie Le Donk (Paddy Considine, (star of In America, Hot Fuzz) sees a great opportunity when he spots up-and-coming rapper Scor-Zay-Zee, and instantly recognises his potential. Deciding to take the fledgling artist under his wing, and with the help of his 'friends', the Arctic ..read more »
63%
from 5,059 members
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The Bourne Ultimatum - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen
Director: Paul Greengrass
Certificate: 
The government's most wanted amnesiac super-spy returns in this thrilling third instalment in the Jason Bourne franchise. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM picks up where the THE BOURNE SUPREMACY left off, with Bourne once again racing around the globe, desperate to uncover the secrets of his identity. Having ..read more »
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from 5,197 members
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Hot Fuzz - HD
(2007)
Starring: Tim Barlow, Anne Reid, Steve Coogan
Director: Edgar Wright
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Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
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from 1,670 member
Not currently released
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Hot Fuzz - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Anne Reid, Steve Coogan, Nick Frost
Director: Edgar Wright
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Pop culture sponges Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost team up again for HOT FUZZ, their follow-up to the hit movie SHAUN OF THE DEAD. HOT FUZZ follows a near-identical formula to its predecessor, simply replacing the various homages to horror movies by heaping on the adulation for action ..read more »
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from 2,095 members
Not currently released
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Hot Fuzz
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Tim Barlow, Bill Ni, Anne Reid
Director: Edgar Wright
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Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD with another collaboration in HOT FUZZ. This time around Pegg and Frost are mismatched cops who are reluctantly forced to work together, with hilarious results.
73%
from 103,313 members
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The Backwoods
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Gary Oldman, Paddy Considine, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon
Director: Koldo Serra
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Thriller set in the 1970s starring Gary Oldman. Lucy (Virginie Ledoyen) and Norman (Paddy Considine) are a young married couple who visit a friend (Oldman) in the Basque region of Spain. Their tranquil summer turns to horror when they discover a girl with horribly mutilated hands in the forest. ..read more »
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from 2,123 members
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Pu-239
(2006)
Starring: Paddy Considine, Oscar Isaac, Valeriu Pavel Dan
Director: Scott Z. Burns
Certificate: 
A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.
62%
from 5 members
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Cinderella Man - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger, Paul Giamatti
Director: Ron Howard
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Director Ron Howard and star Russell Crowe re-team after their Oscar-winning collaboration, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, for this rousing biopic. It's the true story of boxer James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe), a heavyweight contender from New Jersey nicknamed the Bulldog of Bergen, who lost his fame and ..read more »
78%
from 2,039 members
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Cinderella Man
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger, Paul Giamatti
Director: Ron Howard
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Director Ron Howard and star Russell Crowe re-team after their Oscar-winning collaboration, A Beautiful Mind, for this rousing biopic. It's the true story of boxer James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe), a heavyweight contender from New Jersey nicknamed the Bulldog of Bergen, who lost his fame and ..read more »
72%
from 48,109 members
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Stoned
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Paddy Considine, Monet Mazur, Leo Gregory
Director: Stephen Woolley
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Director/Producer Stephen Woolley's STONED is a dramatic attempt--researched for 10 years--to accurately portray the controversial events surrounding the death on July 2nd, 1969 of Rolling Stones founding member and guitarist Brian Jones at age 27. To create his work, Woolley synthesized the ..read more »
53%
from 4,481 members
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Dead Man's Shoes - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell
Director: Shane Meadows
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Two brothers, Richard and Anthony, return to their hometown. Setting up camp in the hills overlooking the town, they reminisce over their past. But Richard has not returned for the memories, he's returned for revenge...
80%
from 1,864 member
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Dead Man's Shoes
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell
Director: Shane Meadows
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Two brothers, Richard and Anthony, return to their hometown. Setting up camp in the hills overlooking the town, they reminisce over their past. But Richard has not returned for the memories, he's returned for revenge...
71%
from 40,450 members
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In America
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, Sarah Bolger
Director: Jim Sheridan
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Jim Sheridan's autobiographical film, IN AMERICA, begins as Irish immigrants Johnny (Paddy Considine, ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS), his wife Sarah (Samantha Morton, SWEET & LOWDOWN), and their two daughters drive their wood-panelled station wagon across the Canadian border and into the United States. As ..read more »
66%
from 16,648 members
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24 Hour Party People
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Steve Coogan, Keith Allen, Jim Cartwright
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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Staggeringly versatile director Michael Winterbottom follows up his epic Western THE CLAIM with a period piece of a completely different variety. A sprawling, visceral tribute to the legendary Manchester music scene that flourished between the years of 1976 and 1992, 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE recreates ..read more »
64%
from 14,719 members
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My Wrongs Number 8245-8249 And 117
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Paddy Considine
Director: Chris Morris
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A surreal short film directed by Chris Morris, the man behind THE DAY TODAY and BRASSEYE. Paddy Considine plays 'Him', a troubled man who is 'dog-sitting' his friend's dog Rothko. After Rothko savages a duck in the park, things go from bad to worse as the dog starts talking to him and claims to be ..read more »
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from 1,678 member
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Happy Now
(2001)
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Susan Lynch, Om Puri
Director: Philippa Cousins
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A teenage girl whose eerie resemblance to a local Welsh beauty queen killed 14 years earlier disturbs one of the men responsible for her accidental death.
63%
from 6 members
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A Room For Romeo Brass
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall, Paddy Considine
Director: Shane Meadows
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In A ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS, two teenage boys, Romeo (Andrew Shrim) and Knocks (Ben Marshall), whose families live in the same housing development in a small town in the Midlands, England, share a unique friendship. Making jokes that nobody else understands, fighting over little things, being ..read more »
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from 9,373 members
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...soon as you accept this, it becomes very difficult not to warm to this film.
Paddy Considine, as usual, is excellent as the troubled local man who falls for the older siste...
