Patrick George Considine is an English actor, director, and screenwriter of Irish descent. He frequently collaborates with filmmaker/director Shane Meadows. He came to prominence in the early 2000s with a string of performances in independent films.
Is Paddy Considine in This is England?
Paddy Considine is an actor and the uncredited co-writer of This Is England (film). He appears in many of Shane’s other films but not the This Is England franchise.
In his debut film with Meadows, A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), he had his first significant on-screen appearance as the unstable small-town figure Morell. He earned the Best Actor prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for his first leading performance as the romantically troubled misfit Alfie in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Last Resort (2000).
Through the early 2000s, Considine rose to fame for his leading roles in the films In America (2003) and My Summer of Love (2004) as well as for his supporting roles in Doctor Sleep (2002) and the cult classic 24-Hour Party People (2002).