Acting After graduating from university, Meadows cast Considine in several short films, as well as his second film,
A Room for Romeo Brass (1999). Considine, in his screen debut, played the disturbed character Morell. Considine's performance in the film led to
Paweł Pawlikowski casting him in his first starring role in
Last Resort (2000). Considine played the lead role as love-struck misfit Alfie, for which he won the Best Actor award at the
Thessaloniki Film Festival. Considine increased his profile during the early to mid-2000s with supporting and starring roles in cult films such as
24 Hour Party People and
In America. In 2004, Considine starred in what was then the most significant role of his career, as Richard in Meadows' revenge film ''
Dead Man's Shoes'' (2004), a film he cowrote Considine appeared in the Spanish thriller
Bosque de Sombras (2006). It was during the filming of this that Considine penned what later became his debut short,
Dog Altogether. Considine claims that it was his co-star
Gary Oldman who gave him the confidence to make the film, which led to him thanking Oldman during his
BAFTA acceptance speech. In 2006, he starred in
Pu-239 as Timofey Berezin, a worker at a Russian nuclear facility who gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In 2007, Considine landed roles in two popular big-budget films; the third film in the
Bourne Trilogy film series,
The Bourne Ultimatum, in which he played newspaper reporter Simon Ross, Also in 2011, Considine appeared as Porter Nash in the adaptation of the
Ken Bruen novel
Blitz, as well as starring as
Jack Whicher in
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, written by
Helen Edmundson and Neil McKay. In the same year, Considine was briefly reunited with one of his
A Room for Romeo Brass co-stars, BAFTA-winning actress
Vicky McClure. The two shared the screen in a television advert to promote "Films for Life Season". The ad was shot over two days in Spain. He has appeared in several music videos, most notably "
God Put A Smile Upon Your Face" (2002) by
Coldplay and
Moloko's "
Familiar Feeling" (2003), In August 2015, Considine confirmed that he was writing the screenplay for the film
Journeyman, in which he will also star. It is an adaptation of
non-fiction novel The Years of the Locust by
Jon Hotten, the true story of a sociopathic boxing promoter, Fat Rick Parker, and his doomed relationship with his naive fighter, Tim Anderson. Considine is also writing a film from a ghost story called
The Leaning, with plans to direct both films. He will continue to work with Shane Meadows on
King of the Gypsies, a biopic of bare-knuckle fighter
Bartley Gorman, whom Considine met and became friends with whilst working as a photographer. In April 2017, Considine made his professional stage debut in
The Ferryman at the
Royal Court Theatre, ahead of a transfer to the
Gielgud Theatre in the
West End. The production transferred to the
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on
Broadway, beginning previews on 2 October 2018. The play, which went on to win four Tony Awards, closed on 7 July 2019. For his performance as Quinn Carney, Considine gained nominations for best actor at both the Olivier Awards and The Tony Awards. In 2020, he portrayed Mr Martin in the HBO miniseries
The Third Day alongside Jude Law. In August 2022, Considine began appearing as King Viserys Targaryen in the
Game of Thrones series prequel
House of the Dragon. Considine will portray
Brendan Ingle in the upcoming biographical sports drama
Giant opposite
Mena Massoud as
Naseem Hamed.
Filmmaking Dog Altogether and Tyrannosaur In 2007, Considine wrote and directed his first short film
Dog Altogether, starring
Peter Mullan, partially based on Considine's father.
Dog Altogether won the
2007 BAFTA award for
Best Short Film, as well as a
Silver Lion for Best Short Film at the
2007 Venice Film Festival, a
Best British Short at the
2007 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA), and the Seattle International Film Festival Short Film Jury Award (Narrative Special Jury Prize). Kermode went on to award Olivia Colman Best Actress in his own Annual Kermode Awards. She tied with
Tilda Swinton for
We Need to Talk About Kevin. When the BAFTA Award nominations were announced on 17 January 2012, the omission of Olivia Colman in the Best Actress category led to
global trending of both Olivia Colman and
Tyrannosaur on
Twitter. He also won a World Cinema Directing Award for his feature directorial debut
Tyrannosaur at the 2011
Sundance Film Festival.
Journeyman Considine's follow-up film 2017's
Journeyman was written and directed and starred Considine alongside
Jodie Whittaker and, although less well received than
Tyrannosaur, it had an impact within the fighting community. Former UFC middleweight champion
Michael Bisping cited
Journeyman as the key driver to his retirement from the sport.
Music After a short stint during college in a virtual comedy thrash group called 'Grunt', Considine and Shane Meadows formed the band
She Talks To Angels (inspired by the
Black Crowes song of the same name) with friends Richard Eaton, Simon Hudson, and
Nick Hemming (later of
The Leisure Society), with Meadows as vocalist and Considine as drummer. In 2009, they released an
EP They Will Rob You of Your Gifts, and, in 2013, an album
What Happened to the Get To Know Ya? The band's breakthrough performance was in 2014 after
Tim Burgess of
the Charlatans invited them to perform at his curated Tim Peaks Diner event at Festival No 6 in
Portmeirion,
Wales. Considine had contacted Burgess after reading his book
Telling Stories, to discuss meditation. Considine said that this resulted in Burgess asking them to play at Portmeirion, and later to support the Charlatans at the O2 Academy in Leicester. Considine stated that "At first, it was raw – all we had was arrogance. We had a long way to go and we learnt our craft at all these pub gigs. We didn't expect a leg-up just because an actor is in the band." In 2016, the band released their second full-length album
Are Here to Help the Neighbourhood, recorded in
Rockfield Studios and produced by Bassist Chris Slusarenko of
Boston Spaceships and
Guided By Voices. Considine penned the words while the band wrote the music. In 2022, the band released their third album
The Death of Gobshite Rambo. Considine told
The Guardian that "Gobshite Rambo is the name Considine gave to the darker part of his own psyche, though it might just have easily described his dad, who died in 2006". Their music is released under Clinical Finish Records, a label co-owned by Considine and Chris Baldwin, and distributed by Genepool. ==Personal life==