Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#457
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Paddy Considine works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Paddy Considine appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Paddy. Pride is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, thriller, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Guy Ritchie, Ilya Naishuller, Tom Kingsley and others, Paddy Considine helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Pride (2014) as Dai · Hot Fuzz (2007) as DS Andy Wainwright · The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) as Simon Ross
Career snapshot
Ranked #457 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2003–2027
Career length
24 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Pride
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Pride
Most frequent director
Richard Ayoade
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Richard Ayoade
Most common genre
Drama
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 43m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.5
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
7.1 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980, The Bourne Ultimatum, Hot Fuzz — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.1
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980, The Bourne Ultimatum, Hot Fuzz.
Most productive era
2010s
10 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.05 films | 7.17 films | 2.62 films |
| Action | 7.62 films | 6.52 films | 6.82 films |
| Thriller | 7.22 films | 6.33 films | 3.42 films |
| Comedy | 7.71 film | 7.35 films | 6.43 films |
| Crime | 7.32 films | 6.32 films | 6.71 film |
| Romance | 6.82 films | 7.32 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2003In America
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Johnny.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2007Hot Fuzz
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027Wife & Dog
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
21 of 21 films
as Graham Purvis
Directed by Richard Ayoade
as DS Andy Wainwright
Directed by Edgar Wright
as Simon Ross
Directed by Paul Greengrass
as Jago
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Graham Purvis
Submarine (2011)
Performance score7.7
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Graham Purvis gives Paddy Considine a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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DS Andy Wainwright
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Performance score7.7
Hot Fuzz asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. DS Andy Wainwright is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Simon Ross
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Performance score7.6
The Bourne Ultimatum asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Simon Ross is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Johnny
In America (2003)
Performance score7.6
In America asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Johnny is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Graham Purvis
Start here. Submarine is the clearest statement of what Paddy Considine does — accessible, 98 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Paddy at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
In America (2003)
Keeps the drama register of Submarine but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hot Fuzz (2007)
A deliberate change of key after In America — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Keeps the action register of Hot Fuzz but asks for a colder reading of it.
Miss You Already (2015)
Keeps the drama register of The Bourne Ultimatum but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Edgar Wright
Director
2 films together
Notably Hot Fuzz
Richard Ayoade
Director
2 films together
Notably Submarine
Jim Sheridan
Director
1 film together
Notably In America
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Cinderella Man
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together
Notably The Bourne Ultimatum
James Marsh
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Elliott Lester
Director
1 film together
Notably Blitz
Justin Kurzel
Director
1 film together
Notably Macbeth
Catherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together
Notably Miss You Already
Daniel Espinosa
Director
1 film together
Notably Child 44
Armando Iannucci
Director
1 film together
Notably The Death of Stalin
Coky Giedroyc
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Build a Girl
Tom Kingsley
Director
1 film together
Notably Deep Cover
Ilya Naishuller
Director
1 film together
Notably Heads of State
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably Wife & Dog
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Edgar Wright
Director
2 films together · 7.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Hot FuzzRichard Ayoade
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
SubmarinePaul Greengrass
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Bourne UltimatumCatherine Hardwicke
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Miss You AlreadyRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cinderella ManJim Sheridan
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In AmericaArmando Iannucci
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Death of StalinJames Marsh
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980Ilya Naishuller
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Heads of StateTom Kingsley
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Deep CoverJustin Kurzel
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MacbethDaniel Espinosa
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Child 44Elliott Lester
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlitzCoky Giedroyc
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Build a GirlGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wife & DogSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Hot Fuzz
as DS Andy Wainwright
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Cinderella Man
as Mike Wilson
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Hot Fuzz
as DS Andy Wainwright
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Double
as 'The Replicator' - Jack
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Submarine
as Graham Purvis
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Paddy Considine has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
24 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
14 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Simon Ross
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Simon Ross
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Now Is Good
as Father
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Peter Hunter
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Hot Fuzz
as DS Andy Wainwright
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Hot Fuzz
as DS Andy Wainwright
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Death of Stalin
as Andreyev
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Hot Fuzz
as DS Andy Wainwright
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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