Paddy Considine
Paddy Considine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, searchPatrick "Paddy" Considine (born 5 September, 1973) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and frequent collaborator with Shane Meadows.
To international audiences, he may be more familiar for his roles in In America , The Bourne Ultimatum , 24 Hour Party People , My Summer of Love and Hot Fuzz .
His directorial debut, the short film Dog Altogether , won a number of awards including the 2008 BAFTA Award for Best Short Film.
Biography
Considine was born and raised in Burton upon Trent in East Staffordshire. He grew up with his brother and sisters in a council house on Vancouver Drive in the large, council-run Manners Estate in Winshill, a suburb of Burton. He attended High Bank Infants, Joseph Clarke Junior and finally Abbot Beyne Senior School until 1990, when he enrolled to do a National Diploma in Performing Arts. It was at the start of this course, at the Winshill-based Ada Chadwick campus (now demolished) of Burton College, where Considine first met Shane Meadows.
After a short stint in a virtual, comedy thrash group called Grunt, Considine and Meadows formed the band She Talks To Angels (inspired by a Black Crowes song of the same name) with Richard Eaton and Simon Hudson, Nick Hemming as lead guitar, Meadows as vocalist and "Bamm-Bamm" Considine (after Bamm-Bamm Rubble of The Flinstones ) as drummer. Considine is now in a rock band called Riding The Low with Eaton, and released an EP in 2009.
Career
Neither Considine nor Meadows completed the Performing Arts course. In 1993, Meadows moved from his home town of Uttoxeter to study in Nottingham, and Considine moved away from Burton in 1994 to study photography at the University of Brighton, which is where he went on to get a first-class degree in photography at The Faculty of Arts and Architecture. He resides in Burton upon Trent with his wife and three children. After his return from Brighton, Meadows cast Considine in several short films, as well as his second feature, A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), in which Considine plays the disturbed character Morell. Considine went on to star in Meadows' revenge film Dead Man's Shoes (2004), a film he co-wrote. Considine won the 'Best British Actor' award for the role at the 2005 Empire Awards.
Considine's outstanding performance in A Room For Romeo Brass had not gone unnoticed and Pawel Pawlikowski cast him in Last Resort (2000) the following year. Considine played the love-struck misfit Alfie, for which he won the best actor award at th
