54-413: Patrick George Considine (born 5 September 1973) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and musician. He is known for playing antiheros 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
108-616: 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), He later developed the short into his first feature length directorial debut Tyrannosaur with Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan resuming the story of the characters first presented in 'Dog Altogether'. Mark Kermode of BBC Radio 5 Live , hailed
162-595: A film adaptation of Joe Dunthorne 's book Submarine , which Richard Ayoade wrote and directed. 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
216-478: A shoemaker in Italy). In 2002, Considine married Shelley Insley, with whom he has been in a relationship since he was 18. They have three children. Considine still lives in his home town of Burton upon Trent with his family. In April 2011, then in his 30s, Considine revealed that he had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome . Antihero An antihero (sometimes spelled as anti-hero ) or anti-heroine
270-606: A National Diploma in Performing Arts at Burton College, where he first met Shane Meadows . In 1994, Considine moved away to study photography at the University of Brighton . While there he studied under social documentarian Paul Reas , who described one project, portraits of Considine's parents in their house in Winshill, as "fucking brilliant". At one point, Considine was threatened with expulsion, but graduated with
324-558: A TV film for BBC / HBO . In 2009, he starred as Peter Hunter in the Channel 4 miniseries Red Riding : 1980 , based on the novels by David Peace , and another collaboration with Meadows, Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee , a film which was unscripted, adlibbed, and filmed in five days at a cost of £48,000, and which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival . In 2011, Considine starred in
378-408: A critique of social morals and reality. To other scholars, an antihero is inherently a hero from a specific point of view, and a villain from another. This idea is further backed by the addition of character alignments , which are commonly displayed by role-playing games. Typically, an antihero is the focal point of conflict in a story, whether as the protagonist or as the antagonistic force. This
432-498: A first-class BA. 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
486-709: A lead role as King Viserys I Targaryen in House of the Dragon (2022-2024). Considine was born in Burton upon Trent , Staffordshire, where he still resides. He grew up with his brother and four sisters in a council estate in Winshill , a village of Burton. His father, Martin Joseph Considine, was Irish. Considine attended, among other schools, Abbot Beyne Senior School and Burton College . In 1990, he enrolled to do
540-822: A photographer. In 2015, Considine was cast along Glenn Close , Gemma Arterton in the UK zombie film in The Girl with All the Gifts , based on the 2014 novel The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey . 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
594-737: A process that Northrop Frye called the fictional "center of gravity". This movement indicated a literary change in heroic ethos from feudal aristocrat to urban democrat, as was the shift from epic to ironic narratives. Huckleberry Finn (1884) has been called "the first antihero in the American nursery". Charlotte Mullen of Somerville and Ross 's The Real Charlotte (1894) has been described as an anti-heroine. The antihero became prominent in early 20th century existentialist works such as Franz Kafka 's The Metamorphosis (1915), Jean-Paul Sartre 's Nausea (1938), and Albert Camus 's The Stranger (1942). The protagonist in these works
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#1732797788476648-690: A sink estate in Yorkshire, which he co-wrote and co-directed with Ian Duncan . In 2000 he wrote and directed Last Resort starring Dina Korzun and Paddy Considine , which won a BAFTA, the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film at Edinburgh and many other awards. In 2004 he wrote and directed My Summer of Love starring Emily Blunt and Natalie Press , which won a BAFTA, the Michael Powell Award for Best British Film and many other awards. In 2006, he filmed about 60% of his adaptation of Magnus Mills' The Restraint of Beasts when
702-525: Is a Polish filmmaker. He garnered early praise for a string of documentaries in the 1990s and for his award-winning feature films of the 2000s, Last Resort (2000) and My Summer of Love (2004). His success continued into the 2010s with Ida (2013), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , and Cold War (2018), for which Pawlikowski won the Best Director prize at
756-425: Is a main character in a narrative (in literature, film, TV, etc.) who may lack some conventional heroic qualities and attributes, such as idealism , and morality . Although antiheroes may sometimes perform actions that most of the audience considers morally correct, their reasons for doing so may not align with the audience's morality. Antihero is a literary term that can be understood as standing in opposition to
810-410: Is an indecisive central character who drifts through his life and is marked by boredom , angst , and alienation . The antihero entered American literature in the 1950s and up to the mid-1960s as an alienated figure, unable to communicate. The American antihero of the 1950s and 1960s was typically more proactive than his French counterpart. The British version of the antihero emerged in the works of
864-514: Is due to the antihero's engagement in the conflict, typically of their own will, rather than a specific calling to serve the greater good. As such, the antihero focuses on their personal motives first and foremost, with everything else secondary. An early antihero is Homer 's Thersites , since he serves to voice criticism, showcasing an anti-establishment stance. The concept has also been identified in classical Greek drama , Roman satire , and Renaissance literature such as Don Quixote and
918-470: 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 . In 2007, Considine wrote and directed his first short film Dog Altogether , starring Peter Mullan , partially based on Considine's father. Dog Altogether it won the 2007 BAFTA award for Best Short Film , as well as
972-558: 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
1026-542: The Baden-Baden casino in his quest to raise money to buy a secondhand Mercedes. Pawlikowski's most original and formally successful film was Serbian Epics (1992), made at the height of the Bosnian War. The oblique, ironic, imagistic, at times almost hypnotic study of epic Serbian poetry, with exclusive footage of Radovan Karadžić and General Ratko Mladić , aroused a storm of controversy and incomprehension at
1080-651: 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 Mini-Series The Third Day alongside Jude Law. In August 2022, Considine began appearing as King Viserys Targaryen in
1134-539: The Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director , while the film received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Pawlikowski was born in Warsaw , Poland , to a father who was a doctor and a mother who started as a ballet dancer and later became an English literature professor at the University of Warsaw . In his late teens, he learned that his paternal grandmother
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#17327977884761188-585: The English poet Lord Byron . Literary Romanticism in the 19th century helped popularize new forms of the antihero, such as the Gothic double . The antihero eventually became an established form of social criticism, a phenomenon often associated with the unnamed protagonist in Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's Notes from Underground . The antihero emerged as a foil to the traditional hero archetype ,
1242-640: The National Film and Television School , won the Sutherland Prize for the Best First Film, for Ilo Ilo . Ida won the 2015 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film on 23 February 2015, the first Polish film to do so. In the same year, he was a member of the jury headed by Alfonso Cuarón at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival . In 2017, Pawlikowski adapted Emmanuel Carrère 's biographical novel Limonov (2011), based on
1296-497: 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), 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
1350-613: The picaresque rogue. An anti-hero that fits the more contemporary notion of the term is the lower-caste warrior Karna , in The Mahabharata . Karna is the sixth brother of the Pandavas (symbolising good ), born out of wedlock, and raised by a lower caste charioteer. He is ridiculed by the Pandavas, but accepted as an excellent warrior by the antagonist Duryodhana , this becoming a loyal friend to him, eventually fighting on
1404-408: The wrong side of the final just war . Karna serves as a critique of the then society, the protagonists, as well as the idea of the war being worthwhile itself – even if Krishna later justifies it properly. The term antihero was first used as early as 1714, emerging in works such as Rameau's Nephew in the 18th century, and is also used more broadly to cover Byronic heroes as well, created by
1458-627: The " angry young men " of the 1950s. The collective protests of Sixties counterculture saw the solitary antihero gradually eclipsed from fictional prominence, though not without subsequent revivals in literary and cinematic form. During the Golden Age of Television from the 2000s and into early 2020s, antiheroes such as Tony Soprano , Gru , Megamind , Jack Bauer , Gregory House , Dexter Morgan , Walter White , Don Draper , Nucky Thompson , Jax Teller , Alicia Florrick , Annalise Keating , Selina Meyer and Kendall Roy became prominent in
1512-540: The "Five Musketeers" reattempting an "epic" pub crawl. Considine previously worked with the cast and crew on Hot Fuzz (2007). The film was released in the United Kingdom on 19 July 2013, and the United States on 23 August 2013. 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
1566-605: 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 and for which he won
1620-597: The Best British Actor Award at the 2005 Empire Awards . In the same year, he starred in My Summer of Love , his second film with director Pawel Pawlikowski . Both films were recognised on the award circuit, where Considine earned five nominations and two wins. The following year, Considine played Frank Thorogood (the suspected murderer of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones ) in Stoned (2005). It
1674-798: The Catholic Church in Great Britain to be easier to grow in faith in than that in Poland. Pawlikowski was a Creative Arts Fellow at Oxford Brookes University from 2004 to 2007. He teaches film direction and screenwriting at the National Film School in the UK and the Wajda Film School in Warsaw. In addition to his native Polish, he speaks six languages including German and Russian. Pawlikowski's first wife, who
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1728-603: The Charlatans at the O2 Academy in Leicester this year. I didn't get stage fright. We were ready. We did our history off-camera. We have evolved. We have got better. 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." 2016 saw the band release their second full-length album Are Here to Help
1782-557: 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
1836-525: The Low got their big music break 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. "The conversation developed and Tim generously offered to let us play at Portmeirion," Considine said. "It led to the band supporting
1890-538: 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. Considine remains private in his personal life and once said if he ever became a celebrity, he would "disappear and go and make shoes like Daniel Day-Lewis " (a reference to Day-Lewis' sabbatical working as
1944-550: The band, the remaining members re-formed, calling themselves Oslo. Appearing on Jools Holland's show, whilst Considine had moved on to study photography at the University of Brighton, where he formed a new group, a Britpop band called Pedestrians. His rock band called Riding the Low, released an EP They Will Rob You of Your Gifts (2009), and an album What Happened to the Get To Know Ya? (2013). Considine and Riding
1998-571: The fighting community. Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping cited Journeyman as the key driver to his retirement from the sport. 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. Considine left
2052-563: The film as one of the 11 Best Films of 2011. 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 . By 18 December 2011, the film had won 21 awards from 28 nominations worldwide. The Guardian included the film in its shortlist for the First Film Award for 2012. When the BAFTA Award nominations were announced on 17 January 2012,
2106-502: The life of Eduard Limonov , into a screenplay. Pawlikowski planned to direct the film adaptation but revealed in 2020 that he lost interest in the character and abandoned plans to direct. His most recent film, Cold War earned him the Best Director Award at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival . It also won five awards at the 2018 European Film Awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress Awards. In 2019, he
2160-537: The most popular and critically acclaimed TV shows. This rise of the modern antihero zeitgeist may explain contemporary political outcomes, such as the popularity of non-traditional populists including Donald J. Trump . In his essay published in 2020, Postheroic Heroes - A Contemporary Image (german: Postheroische Helden - Ein Zeitbild) , German sociologist Ulrich Bröckling examines the simultaneity of heroic and post-heroic role models as an opportunity to explore
2214-532: The omission of Olivia Colman in the Best Actress category led to global trending of both Olivia Colman and Tyrannosaur on Twitter . as well as a World Cinema Directing Award for his feature directorial debut Tyrannosaur at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival . Paddy's Follow-up film; 2017's Journeyman (film) which was written and directed and starred Paddy alongside Jodie Whittaker and, although less well received than Tyrannosaur it had an impact within
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2268-483: The place of the heroic in contemporary society. In contemporary art, artists such as the French multimedia artist Thomas Liu Le Lann negotiate in his series of Soft Heroes , in which overburdened, modern and tired Anti Heroes seem to have given up on the world around them. Pawe%C5%82 Pawlikowski Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski ( Polish: [ˈpavɛw alɛˈksandɛr pavliˈkɔfskʲi] ; born 15 September 1957)
2322-700: The project was halted—his wife had fallen gravely ill and he left to care for her and their children. In 2011, he wrote and directed a film loosely adapted from Douglas Kennedy's novel The Woman in the Fifth , starring Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas . On 19 October 2013, his film Ida (starring Agata Kulesza ) won the Best Film Award at the London Film Festival , on the same night that Anthony Chen , one of his students at
2376-665: 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), as well as the Arctic Monkeys track " Leave Before the Lights Come On " (2006), for which he wrote the video. Considine starred in The World's End , as one of
2430-615: The time, but has now secured it something of a cult status. The absurdist Tripping with Zhirinovsky , a surreal boat journey down the Volga with controversial Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky , won Pawlikowski the Grierson Award for the Best British Documentary in 1995. Pawlikowski's transition to fiction occurred in 1998 with a small 50-minute hybrid film Twockers , a lyrical and gritty love story set on
2484-402: The traditional hero, i.e., one with high social status, well liked by the general populace. Past the surface, scholars have additional requirements for the antihero. The " Racinian " antihero, is defined by three factors. The first is that the antihero is doomed to fail before their adventure begins. The second constitutes the blame of that failure on everyone but themselves. Thirdly, they offer
2538-520: The world. From Moscow to Pietushki was a poetic journey into the world of the Russian cult writer Venedikt Erofeev , for which he won an Emmy , an RTS award, a Prix Italia and other awards. The multi-award-winning Dostoevsky's Travels was a tragi-comic road movie in which a St Petersburg tram driver and the only living descendant of Fyodor Dostoevsky , travels rough around Western Europe haunting high-minded humanists, aristocrats, monarchists and
2592-581: Was Jewish and had been murdered in Auschwitz . At the age of 14, he left Poland with his mother for London. What he thought was a holiday turned out to be a permanent exile. A year later he moved to Germany, before finally settling in Britain in 1977. He studied literature and philosophy at Oxford University . In the late 1980s and 1990s, Pawlikowski was best known for his documentaries, whose blend of lyricism and irony won him many fans and awards around
2646-637: Was Russian, developed a serious illness in 2006 and died several months later. They have a son and a daughter. After his children left for university, Pawlikowski moved to Paris, and later relocated to Warsaw, where he lives close to his childhood home. At the end of 2017, he married Polish model and actress Małgosia Bela . Television 1987 Stasys Film - Academy Awards British Academy Film Awards Golden Globe Awards European Film Awards Polish Film Awards British Independent Film Awards Film festivals and other award ceremonies Critics' Circle Other distinctions Pawlikowski
2700-497: Was announced as one of the members of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival . In October 2022, reports emerged that Pawlikowski's next film, under the working title The Island , was scheduled to begin filming in 2023. The film is inspired by true events and cast Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara as an American couple in the 1930s, who leave behind civilization to live on a deserted island. In May 2023, production for The Island
2754-485: Was around this time that Considine earned his reputation as a popular portrayer of cinema villains, antiheroes, and darker characters. 2005 also saw the release of Considine's second Hollywood film, Cinderella Man . 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
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#17327977884762808-454: Was halted, weeks before filming was set to begin, as a result of the impending 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike . In December 2023, cinematographer Łukasz Żal stated that the project was unlikely to ever be made. In February 2024, Mara stated that herself, Phoenix, and Pawlikowski are still committed to make the film, but was unsure of when it may be filmed. Pawlikowski grew up a Catholic and considers himself one up to this day, but says that he finds
2862-726: 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, and Hot Fuzz , in which he had his first comedic role as DS Andy Wainwright. In 2008, Considine starred in My Zinc Bed
2916-474: Was in his first collaboration with filmmaker/director Shane Meadows , was in A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), and was 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), Dead Man's Shoes (2004), winning the 2005 Empire Award for Best British Actor , and a nomination for
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