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Date of Birth

5 September 1974, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK

Height

5' 11" (1.80 m)

Mini Biography

Paddy (Patrick) Considine, born 5th September 1974, in the Midlands town of Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. As a teenager, Considine studied a drama course at Burton College where he met with now friend and director Shane Meadows who together formed a band called "She talks to angels" (Paddy was their drummer). Neither finished the course, however, but Paddy went on to study photography at Brighton University where he earned a first class honors degree.

After returning from uni Paddy worked on a short film with old friend Shane Meadows, called "Three tears for Jimmy Prophet" about a doomed boxer who's life took a turn for the worse. Following this, 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 film's huge success at the Edinburgh film festival, rumor has it that Paddy found himself at the local Job center the Monday following its premiere.

However, Paddy's outstanding performance had not gone unnoticed, and he soon found himself cast in Pawel Pawlikowski's 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 Russell Crowe and Renée Zellweger and has gone on to gain nominations at numerous British film awards including one for his touching role as Johnny in Jim Sheridan's In America (2002).

Along with his lead roles, Paddy has had a number of scene-stealing supporting roles in films such as 24 Hour Party People (2002), Born Romantic (2000), and The Martins (2001), working alongside the likes of Steve Coogan, Lee Evans, Jane Horrocks, and Kathy Burke to name a few.

More recently, Considine has been noticed for his performance as Richard the revengeful brother in the applauded film Dead Man's Shoes (2004), which he co-wrote with Shane Meadows. And for his role as Phil the Born again Christian in Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love (2004).

The future is bright for Considine and holds a Hollywood release in Cinderella Man (2005) and a role playing the friend of Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones in Stoned (2005).

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Spouse

Shelley Considine

(? - present) 1 child

Trivia

Worked as a photographer before turning to acting full-time

His father died from cancer one week before filming began for 'In America.'

Grew up in Winshill, just outside Burton-on-Trent.

First son with wife Shelley is Joseph.

Comes from a family with 6 children.

Personal Quotes

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, when they're casting movies in America, the big question is, "Can he do an American accent?" Well, that's answered now. He can do one, he can do a Thirties New Yorker.

Actors are all different, we've all got different motors.

[on Tyrannosaur (2011)] People put on different masks. They put on a different face to the world in order to cope. It's a strange manipulation. They are out there and they are ignored because the circumstances that created them are ignored.

We have to accept the hurt and the misery as real. It's all around us, and you can be watching the evening news one night, telling you about a lady who was beaten to death, and then they try to cheer you up at the end with the shot of a dog on a surfboard. I find this offensive.

I worry. I worry we're losing our humanity. That's why I feel a need to explore these people. There has to be some sort of redemption, some resolution. I have to believe that. Otherwise life is just a series of bad events.

[on Rocky (1976)] We have a story of an underdog told in a cinematic way. People see this movie now and they think he wins because his personal victory is so large. But you have to remember that in that first 'Rocky', Rocky lost. And that's why I love it. It's a movie about a loser, but one who is redeemed all the same.

[about why he switched from acting to directing] I was just fed up with the low-budget British film - getting a hand-held camera, swinging it around, improvising..That whole technique got bastardized to death. I'm sick of seeing it. I wanted to make a movie.