Paddy Considine Movies and Career Information

Patrick "Paddy" George 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 and Hot Fuzz. To British audiences he may be more familiar for his roles in Dead Man's Shoes, A Room for Romeo Brass and Red Riding: 1980. His directorial debut, the short film Dog Altogether, won a number of awards including the 2008 BAFTA Award for Best Short Film. Considine was born and brought up in Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire. He grew up with his brother and sisters in a council 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)