Researching Paddy Considine

His first major onscreen appearance was in his first collaboration with Meadows in A Room for Romeo Brass (1999) in which he played the small-town disturbed character Morell. He gained recognition for his first lead role as love-struck misfit Alfie in Paweł Pawlikowski’s Last Resort (2000), which won him the Best Actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival. After gaining recognition for these debut roles, Considine came to prominence through the early 2000’s for strong leading performances in both In America (2003) and My Summer of Love (2004), and supporting parts in Doctor Sleep (2002) and in cult film 24 Hour Party People (2002). Wide acclaim and recognition came with his breakthrough role as Richard in Meadows' revenge film Dead Man's Shoes (2004), a film he co-wrote and for which he won the Best British Actor Award at the 2005 Empire Award for Best British Actor and received a nomination for the British Independent Film Award for Best Actor.

He gained further recognition for his support performances in Cinderella Man (2005) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). His other critical successes include many of his diverse comic roles in the films Hot Fuzz (2007), Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009), Submarine (2010),The World's End (2013), Pride (2014), Miss You Already (2015), The Death of Stalin (2017), Funny Cow (2017) and How to Build a Girl (2019), with all nine films received praise for Considine's performances, with his dramatic roles in The Cry of the Owl (2009), Blitz (2011), Girl on a Bicycle (2012), Now Is Good (2012), Honour (2014), Child 44 (2015), Macbeth (2015), The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) and Journeyman (2017).

On television, Considine has had lead roles in several television productions including; Pu-239 (2006), My Zinc Bed (2008), Red Riding (2009) and the BBC series Informer (2018), notably starring in the title role as Detective Inspector Jack Whicher in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher series of television films. As well as smaller recurring roles in series 3 of the BBC gangster series Peaky Blinders (2016), and the HBO miniseries The Outsider (2020). Considine currently stars alongside Jude Law in the Sky Atlantic miniseries The Third Day (2020). He will also be taking on the role of King Viserys I Targaryen in the upcoming HBO series House of the Dragon (2022).

Considine made his filmmaking debut with the short film Dog Altogether (2007) he wrote and directed and for which he won a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film, a British Independent Film Award, a Silver Lion at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, and the Seattle International Film Festival Short Film Jury Award (Narrative Special Jury Prize) and its 2011 feature film adaptation Tyrannosaur which won a second for BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer and a British Independent Film Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and acting awards for both its lead actors Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan, he followed this up by directing and starring in his second feature Journeyman to critical acclaim. He has also acted in and directed several music videos, most notably Coldplay's "God Put a Smile upon Your Face" and the Arctic Monkeys' "Leave Before the Lights Come On".

Despite portraying Banquo in the onscreen adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth (2015), Considine has only had a very brief, but successful career on stage. He received Olivier Awards and Tony Award nominations as Best Actor in 2018 and 2019 for his performances in The Ferryman at the Royal Court Theatre and the Gielgud Theatre and The Ferryman at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway.