Paddy Considine

Patrick George Paddy Considine is an English actor, film director, screenwriter, and musician. He has played a number of dark, troubled, and morally or mentally ambiguous characters. Considine frequently collaborates with Shane Meadows. He has starred in films such as In America , Dead Mans Shoes , Cinderella Man , Hot Fuzz , The Cry of the Owl , Blitz , Now Is Good , The Worlds End , The Suspicions of Mr Whicher , and Macbeth .

Considine was born in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, where he still resides. He grew up with his brother and sisters in a council estate in Winshill, a suburb of Burton. Considine attended, among other schools, Abbot Beyne Senior School and Burton College. In 1990, Considine enrolled to do a National Diploma in Performing Arts at Burton College, where he first met Shane Meadows. Neither of them completed the course.

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