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Paddy Considine
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Biography
Patrick George Considine (born 5 September 1973) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and musician. He is known for playing antiheroes in independent films. He has received two British Academy Film Awards, three Evening Standard British Film Awards, British Independent Film Awards, and a Silver Lion for Best Short Film at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. His first major onscreen appearance was in his first collaboration with filmmaker/director Shane Meadows, A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), and he then played Alfie in Paweł Pawlikowski's Last Resort (2000). Other credits include Doctor Sleep (2002), 24 Hour Party People (2002), In America (2003), My Summer of Love (2004), and Dead Man's Shoes (2004), winning the 2005 Empire Award for Best British Actor and a nomination for the BIFA for Best Actor. He wrote and directed Dog Altogether (2007), winning a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film, and its 2011 feature film adaptation Tyrannosaur which won BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. He directed and starred in Journeyman. On stage, Considine 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, at the Gielgud Theatre, and at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway. On television, Considine has been lead in Pu-239 (2006), My Zinc Bed (2008), Red Riding (2009), Informer (2018), and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher series of television films (2013–2014). Other television credits include Peaky Blinders (2016), The Outsider (2020), The Third Day (2020), and most notably he played a lead role as King Viserys I Targaryen in House of the Dragon (2022–2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Paddy Considine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Hot Fuzz
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The World's End
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The Death of Stalin
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My Summer of Love
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24 Hour Party People
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Deep Cover
As Fly
The Bourne Ultimatum
As Simon Ross
The Outsider
As Claude Bolton
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KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Love in the Ruins
From the Sex Pistols' collapse to the quiet ache of post-punk, a chain of films where rebellion and romance burn together, and the fallout is everything.
8 films
Anarchy in the UK
From Ealing's sly subversions to Python's surreal dismantling of authority, a journey through the films that taught Britain to laugh at itself.
7 films
Five Essential Summer Films
A curated selection of films that capture summer's heat, languor, and menace, sidestepping the usual suspects for more surprising, evocative choices.
5 films
20 Home Video Releases Every Film Obsessive Should Own
There was a brief, glorious period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when buying a film on home video felt less like acquiring a product and more like being han...
20 films
25 Years of Flailing: How Bridget Jones Perfected the Best Worst Fight Scene Ever
From Bridget Jones's iconic street brawl to a Greek restaurant showdown, trace the lineage of cinema's most gloriously awkward fights.
5 films
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2017 · Andreyev
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2015 · Vladimir Malevich
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2014 · Dai
The World's End
2013 · Steven Prince
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2011 · Porter Nash
Submarine
2011 · Graham Purvis
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007 · Simon Ross
Hot Fuzz
2007 · DS Andy Wainwright
Cinderella Man
2005 · Mike Wilson
My Summer of Love
2005 · Phil
Dead Man's Shoes
2004 · Richard
24 Hour Party People
2002 · Rob
A Room for Romeo Brass
1999 · Morell