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.

Filmography

• 2027Wife & Dog
• 2025Deep Cover — Fly
• 2025Heads of State — Viktor Gradov
• MobLand — Kevin Harrigan
• Small Town, Big Story — Séamus Proctor
• House of the Dragon — King Viserys I Targaryen, King Viserys I Targaryen (uncredited)
• 2021Wolf — The Zookeeper
• 2020How to Build a Girl — Pat Morrigan
• The Outsider — Claude Bolton
• The Third Day — Mr. Martin
• 2018Funny Cow — Angus
• Informer — Gabe Waters
• 2018Journeyman — Matty Burton, Director, Writer
• 2017The Death of Stalin — Andreyev
• 2016The Girl with All the Gifts — Sgt. Eddie Parks
• 2015Child 44 — Vladimir Malevich
• 2015Macbeth — Banquo
• 2015Miss You Already — Jago
• 2014Beyond the Pale — Mr. Whicher
• 2014Honour
• 2014Pride — Dai
• 2014The Double — 'The Replicator' - Jack
• 2014The Ties That Bind — Mr. Whicher
• 2013Girl on a Bicycle — Derek
• Peaky Blinders — Father John Hughes
• 2013The Murder in Angel Lane — Mr. Whicher
• 2013The World's End — Steven Prince
• 2012Now Is Good — Father
• 2012The Bourne Legacy — Simon Ross (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2011Blitz — Porter Nash
• 2011Submarine — Graham Purvis
• 2011The Murder at Road Hill House — Inspector Whicher
• 2011Through the Prism
• 2011Tyrannosaur — Director, Writer
• 2009Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee — Le Donk
• Red Riding
• 2009Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 — Peter Hunter
• 2009The Cry of the Owl — Robert Forrester
• 2008My Zinc Bed — Paul
• 2007Dog Altogether — Director, Screenplay
• 2007Hot Fuzz — DS Andy Wainwright
• 2007The Bourne Ultimatum — Simon Ross
• 2006Pu-239 — Timofey
• 2006The Backwoods — Norman
• 2005Cinderella Man — Mike Wilson
• 2005My Summer of Love — Phil
• 2005Stoned — Frank Thorogood
• 2004Dead Man's Shoes — Richard, Writer
• 2003In America — Johnny
• 200224 Hour Party People — Rob
• 2002Bouncer — Knife Man
• 2002Doctor Sleep — Elliot Spruggs
• 2002My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117 — Him
• 2001Happy Now — Glen Marcus
• 2001The Martins — Hatfield Recorder Editor
• 2000A Room for Romeo Brass — Morell
• 2000Born Romantic — Ray
• 2000Last Resort — Alfie
• 2000Macca’s Men — Writer
• 2000The Man with No Name — The Man with No Name, Writer
• 2000The Poppa Squeeze Affair — Tony Maroni, Writer
• 2000Three Tears for Jimmy Prophet — Writer
• Army of Shadows
• Blackmere
• Project Codename — Detective John Blackmere

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2015Pride: The True Story — Himself
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest
• 2013Completing the Golden Mile: The Making of The World's End — Self
• Soccer AM — Self
• Shooting Stars — Self