Paddy Considine
| Paddy Considine | |
|---|---|
| Born | Patrick George Considine 5 September 1973 Burton upon Trent, East Staffordshire, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor, film director, writer, musician |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Website | |
| http://www.paddyconsidine.co.uk | |
Patrick George "Paddy" Considine (born 5 September 1973) is an English actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, musician and frequent collaborator with Shane Meadows. Best known to audiences for his portrayals of dark, troubled, morally or mentally ambiguous characters. He has starred in films such as In America, Dead Man's Shoes, The Cry of the Owl, Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee and Hot Fuzz, as well as in television movies such as The Red Riding Trilogy, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, and PU-239.
Considine came to prominence in the early-2000s with a string of strong performances in independent films that prompted The Observer to describe him as "The best-kept secret in British movies".[1] In addition to leading and supporting roles in Hollywood films, Considine has frequently acted in independent British films and television shows. Aside from acting, he directed and wrote Tyrannosaur, a film based on his directorial debut, the short film Dog Altogether both of which feature actors Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman and Paul Popplewell. He was both actor and writer on several music videos, namely the Arctic Monkeys promotional video for "Leave Before the Lights Come On".
Among other accolades, Considine has received an Evening Standard British Film Award, Empire Award and Thessaloniki Film Festival Awards as well as eight other award nominations for his acting work. He has also a BAFTA Award, British Independent Film Award, Silver Lion at the 2007 Venice Film Festival and the Seattle International Film Festival Short Film Jury Award (Narrative Special Jury Prize)[2] for best short with Dog Altogether as well as a second BAFTA Award, British Independent Film Award and a World Cinema Directing Award for his feature directorial debut film, Tyrannosaur, at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
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[edit] Early life
Considine was born, raised and still resides in Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire,[1]. He grew up with his brother and sisters in a council estate in Winshill, a suburb of Burton.[3] In 1990 he enrolled to do a National Diploma in Performing Arts at Burton College, where he first met Shane Meadows.[1][3] Neither Considine nor Meadows completed the Performing Arts course.
He attended, among other schools, Abbot Beyne Senior School and Burton College, all in Burton upon Trent. In 1993, Meadows moved from his home town of Uttoxeter to study in Nottingham, and Considine moved away in 1994 to study photography at the University of Brighton, where he went on to get a first-class degree in photography.[1] In April 2011, Considine revealed that he had been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.[4][5]
[edit] Film career
[edit] Film debut and foray into American cinema
After graduating with a BA in Photography from the University of Brighton, Meadows cast Considine in several short films, as well as his second feature, A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), in which Considine, in his screen debut, plays the disturbed character Morell.[6]
Considine's performance in A Room For Romeo Brass led to Pawel Pawlikowski casting him in his first starring role in Last Resort (2000) the following year. Considine played the love-struck misfit Alfie, for which he won the best actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival.[7]
After coming to prominence for his role as Alfie and Morell, Considine increased his profile during the early-to-mid 2000s via supporting and starring roles in cult films such as Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People (in which he played the first of many real-life portrayals: Rob Gretton, manager of the post punk band Joy Division/New Order) and Jim Sheridan's In America.
[edit] Mainstream success in the mid-2000s
In 2004, Considine starred in what was at that point the most significant role of his career; as Richard in Shane Meadows' revenge film, Dead Man's Shoes (2004), a film he co-wrote [2][6] and won the 'Best British Actor' award for at the 2005 Empire Awards.[6] In the same year, he co-starred alongside Emily Blunt and Natalie Press in My Summer of Love (2004), his second film with director Pawel Pawlikowski. Both films were recognized on the award circuit where Considine earned five nominations and two wins. The following year, Considine played the suspected murderer of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones in The Builder; Frank Thorogood in Stephen Woolley's Stoned (2005).
It was around this time that Considine earned his reputation as a popular portrayer of cinema villains, antiheroes and darker characters. 2005 also saw the release of Considine's second 'Hollywood' film in Ron Howard's Cinderella Man.[8]
[edit] Since 2005
Considine appeared opposite Gary Oldman in the Spanish thriller Bosque de Sombras (2006). It was during the filming of Bosque de sombras that Considine penned what later became his debut short, Dog Altogther; Considine claims that it was Oldman who gave him confidence to make the film and subsequently led to his thanking Oldman during his BAFTA award acceptance speech.
In 2006, he starred opposite Radha Mitchell in his first TV Movie; PU-239 (also known as The Half Life of Timofey Berezin; 2006), as Timofey Berezin, a worker at a Russian nuclear facility who 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. In 2007 Considine landed roles in two popular big budget films. In the third film in the Bourne Trilogy film series, playing a Guardian newspaper reporter Simon Ross in The Bourne Ultimatum alongside Matt Damon,[2] and his first comedic role as DS Andy Wainwright in Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's Police action comedy Hot Fuzz.
In 2008 Considine starred in My Zinc Bed a TV movie for BBC/HBO alongside Uma Thurman and Jonathan Pryce. In 2009 he starred as Peter Hunter in the Channel 4 miniseries Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord (1980), based on the novels by David Peace and another collaboration with Meadows, Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee, a low-budget mock-rock-umentary (it was unscripted, adlibbed and filmed in five days at a cost of £48,000), featuring the Arctic Monkeys and UK rapper Scorzayzee, in which Considine plays roadie "Le Donk", which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.[3]
In 2011, Considine co-starred with Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins and Noah Taylor on a film adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's book Submarine, for which Richard Ayoade directed and wrote the screenplay.[9] Also in 2011, Considine appeared as Porter Nash in the adaptation of the Ken Bruen novel Blitz, directed by Elliott Lester, also starring Jason Statham, David Morrissey and Aidan Gillen, as well as starring in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
Also in 2011, Considine was briefly reunited with one of his 'A Room For Romeo Brass' co-stars; The BAFTA-winning English actress Vicky McClure. The two shared the screen in a big-budget TV advert to promote "Films For Life Season". The ad was shot over two days in Spain by director Kate Dunn.[10]
Considine has consistently displayed a flair for regional and world accents; along with the Gypsy Midlander Morell in his first role in 1999's A Room for Romeo Brass, Considne has played Londoner Frank Thorogood and Detective Whicher in Stoned and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, respectively, as well as a Russian nuclear plant worker in PU-239. Two roles as a Welshman in Submarine and Happy Now, respectively. An Irish immigrant in In America, a Yorkshireman in both Red Riding and My Summer of Love, an American in Cry of the Owl and Cinderella Man, and sported a West Country burr[clarification needed] in Hot Fuzz.
Considine has appeared in several music videos, most notably "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face" (2002) by Coldplay and Moloko's "Familiar Feeling" (2003),[7] as well as the Arctic Monkeys track "Leave Before The Lights Come On" (2006) (he wrote the video).[3]
[edit] Other ventures
[edit] Filmmaking
In 2007, Considine directed and wrote the award-winning Dog Altogether, starring Peter Mullan, partially based on the life of Mullan's father Joseph. Dog Altogether won the 2007 BAFTA award for Best Short Film, as well as a Silver Lion for 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 Jury Award (Narrative Special Jury Prize),[2] as well as a World Cinema Directing Award for his feature directorial debut Tyrannosaur at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
[edit] Current and future projects
Considine is currently writing his next film, a ghost story called 'The Leaning,[11] with plans to direct and continues to work with 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.[2] Considine recently completed working with Dakota Fanning, Olivia Williams and Jeremy Irvine on Now Is Good, a film adaptation of Jenny Downham's novel, Before I Die.[12] Considine plans to direct his third film based on an adaptation of the non-fiction novel; 'The Years of the Locust' [A True Story of Murder, Money and Mayhem in the Last Age of Boxing] by Jon Hotten. A true tale of a sociopathic boxing promoter; Fat Rick Parker and his doomed relationship with his naive fighter Tim Anderson. Which has been optioned by Inflammable/Warp films.
[edit] Musical activity
After a short stint in a virtual, comedy thrash group called Grunt during college, Considine and Shane Meadows formed the band She Talks To Angels (inspired by a Black Crowes song of the same name) with friends Richard Eaton, Simon Hudson, Nick Hemming as lead guitar, Meadows as vocalist and Considine as drummer.[3] He is now in a rock band called Riding The Low, and released an EP in 2009.[3][13]
[edit] Personal life
Despite numerous lead and supporting roles in popular British and Hollywood movies, Considine remains private in his personal life, once stating if he ever became a celebrity he'd "fucking disappear and go and make shoes like Daniel Day-Lewis" (a reference to Day-Lewis' long sabbatical working as a cobbler in Italy),[14] Considine was born and brought up in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, and continues to live in the Midlands with his own family.[2]
[edit] Asperger's syndrome
In 2010, aged 36, Considine was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder relating to difficulties with communication and social skills. In a candid interview with The Telegraph, he revealed that he suffered from "a debilitating sense of detachment” from both the people around him and his surroundings and that he struggled on a practical level too – certain noises, bright lights, and even wallpaper and fabrics presented problems." Of the diagnosis Considine revealed that discovering that he had Asperger's was a relief.[15]
[edit] Family
As of June 2011[update], he resides in Burton upon Trent with his wife and three children.[2]
[edit] Filmography (actor)
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | A Room for Romeo Brass | Morell | |
| 2000 | Last Resort | Alfie | |
| Born Romantic | Ray | ||
| 2001 | Happy Now | Glen Marcus | |
| The Martins | Hatfield Recorder Editor | ||
| 2002 | 24 Hour Party People | Rob Gretton | |
| Doctor Sleep | Elliot Spruggs | ||
| My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117 | Him | Short | |
| Bouncer | Knife Man | Short | |
| 2003 | In America | Johnny | |
| 2004 | Dead Man's Shoes | Richard | Also Writer |
| My Summer of Love | Phil | ||
| 2005 | Cinderella Man | Mike Wilson | |
| Stoned | Frank Thorogood | ||
| 2006 | Bosque de Sombras | Norman | International English Title: BackWoods |
| Pu-239 | Timofey Berezin | TV Movie | |
| 2007 | Hot Fuzz | DS Andy Wainwright | |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | Simon Ross | ||
| 2008 | My Zinc Bed | Paul Peplow | TV Movie |
| 2009 | The Cry of the Owl | Robert Forrester | |
| Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980 | Detective Peter Hunter | TV Miniseries | |
| Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee | Le Donk | ||
| 2010 | Submarine | Graham T. Purvis | |
| 2011 | The Suspicions of Mr Whicher | Detective Jonathan Whicher | TV Movie |
| Blitz | Sgt. Porter Nash | ||
| Tyrannosaur | Voice only. Also Writer & Director | ||
| 2012 | Girl on a Bicycle | Derek |
[edit] Filmography (writer)
- Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
- This is England, Uncredited (2006)
- Leave Before The Lights Come On Arctic Monkeys music video (2006)
- Dog Altogether (Short) (2007)
- Tyrannosaur (2011)
- The Leaning (2013)
[edit] Filmography (director)
- Dog Altogether (Short) (2007)
- Tyrannosaur (2011)
[edit] Awards and nominations
| Year | Group | Award | Film/Show | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Thessaloniki Film Festival Award | Best Actor (Tied with Misel Maticevic) | Last Resort | Won |
| 2003 | British Independent Film Award | Best Actor | In America | Nominated |
| 2004 | British Independent Film Awards | Best Actor | Dead Man's Shoes | Nominated |
| British Independent Film Awards | Best Screenplay (Shared with Shane Meadows) | Dead Man's Shoes | Nominated | |
| British Independent Film Awards | Best Supporting Actor/Actress | My Summer of Love | Nominated | |
| London Critics Circle Film Awards | ALFS Award - British Actor of the Year | In America | Nominated | |
| Golden Satellite Award | Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama | In America | Nominated | |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | In America | Nominated | |
| 2005 | Empire Awards | Best British Actor | Dead Man's Shoes | Won |
| Evening Standard British Film Awards | Best Actor | Dead Man's Shoes | Won | |
| London Critics Circle Film Awards | ALFS Award - British Actor of the Year | Dead Man's Shoes | Nominated | |
| 2006 | British Independent Film Award | Best Actor | In America | Nominated |
| 2006 | Chlotrudis Awards | Best Supporting Actor | My Summer of Love | Nominated |
| London Critics Circle Film Awards | ALFS Award - British Supporting Actor of the Year | Cinderella Man | Nominated | |
| 2007 | Venice Film Festival Award | Silver Lion - Best Short Film | Dog Altogether | Won |
| British Independent Film Award | Best British Short Film | Dog Altogether | Won | |
| Seattle International Film Festival Award | Special Jury Prize, Narrative | Dog Altogether | Won | |
| Edinburgh International Film Festival Award | Best British Short Film 2nd Place | Dog Altogether | Won | |
| 2008 | BAFTA Awards | Best Short Film | Dog Altogether | Won |
| 2011 | Sundance International Film Festival Award | The World Cinema Award for Directing: Dramatic | Tyrannosaur | Won |
| Nantucket Film Festival Award | Best Writer/Director | Tyrannosaur | Won | |
| Munich Film Festival | CineVision Award Outstanding Debut Feature | Tyrannosaur | Won | |
| Voices Festival of independent European Cinema | Voices Festival Prize: Best Film | Tyrannosaur | Won | |
| Dinard British Film Festival France | The Golden Hitchcock: Grand Jury Prize/Ciné+ Award | Tyrannosaur | Won | |
| Dinard British Film Festival France | The Allianz Award: Best Screenplay | Tyrannosaur | Won | |
| Zagreb Film Festival Croatia | T-Com Audience Award: Best Film | Tyrannosaur | Won |
[edit] Quotation
| “ | It`s all about cutting your teeth. I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There`s young actors and they`re put into these central roles and they`re commanding armies - but they can`t quite pull it off. I`d much rather do it in small steps and build it from there. But at least now, for me... | ” |
The Observer - September 2005[16]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Ojumu, Akin (2001) "Paddy Considine: The best-kept secret in British movies", The Observer, 11 March 2001, retrieved 2010-03-31
- ^ a b c d e f g Barkham, Patrick (3 March 2009). "Dark star". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/mar/03/paddy-considine-red-riding. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f Mottram, James (2009) Interview: Paddy Considine, actor, The Scotsman, 2 October 2009, retrieved 2010-03-31
- ^ Lockyer, Daphne (10 April 2011). "Paddy Considine: Knowing I have Asperger's is a relief". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8440399/Paddy-Considine-Knowing-I-have-Aspergers-is-a-relief.html. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
- ^ Kate Goodacre. "Paddy Considine reveals Asperger's diagnosis". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.ie/showbiz/news/a313837/paddy-considine-reveals-aspergers-diagnosis.html.
- ^ a b c Hoby, Hermione (2009) "Paddy and Shane: story of a partnership", The Observer, 27 September 2009, retrieved 2010-03-31
- ^ a b "Local Heroes: Paddy Considine", BBC, 4 January 2005, retrieved 2010-03-31
- ^ McClean, Craig (11 September 2005). "And the winner is ...". The Observer (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2005/sep/11/features.magazine. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
- ^ "Paddy Considine & Michael Sheen Board Richard Ayoade's 'Submarine'". http://www.flicksnews.net/2009/05/paddy-considne-michael-sheen-board.html.
- ^ film4.com. "Films for live 90 second trailer". film4.com. http://www.film4.com/videos/article/film4-films-for-life.
- ^ "Paddy Considine: Here Comes the Sun". http://paddyconsidine.co.uk/Site_Interview_December10.htm.
- ^ "Paddy Considine, Olivia Williams and Jeremy Irvine join Dakota Fanning In ‘Now Is Good’". http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/paddy_considine_olivia_williams_jeremy_irvine_join_dakota_fanning_in_now_is.
- ^ "'Le Donk' actor Paddy Considine launches new band", NME, 12 October 2009, retrieved 2010-03-31
- ^ "And the winner is...: Observer Magazine, 11 September 2005". http://www.paddyconsidine.co.uk/Observermag05.htm.
- ^ "Paddy Considine: Knowing I have Asperger's is a relief". The Daily Telegraph (London). 10 April 2011. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8440399/Paddy-Considine-Knowing-I-have-Aspergers-is-a-relief.html.
- ^ McClean, Craig (2005). The Observer (Sunday 11 September 2005 ed.). London: Guardian News and Media Limited.
