His first major onscreen appearance 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 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).

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".

Considine played the lead role as love-struck misfit Alfie, for which he won the Best Actor award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival.

[6] 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.

It was around this time that Considine earned his reputation as a popular portrayer of cinema villains, antiheroes, and darker characters.

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.

[3] In 2011, Considine starred in a film adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's book Submarine, which Richard Ayoade wrote and directed.

In the same year, Considine was briefly reunited with one of his A Room for Romeo Brass co-stars, BAFTA-winning actress Vicky McClure.

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.

[20] In August 2022, Considine began appearing as King Viserys Targaryen[21] in the Game of Thrones series prequel House of the Dragon.

[22] Considine will portray Brendan Ingle in the upcoming biographical sports drama Giant opposite Mena Massoud as Naseem Hamed.

Considine's follow-up film, 2017's Journeyman was written and directed and starred Paddy 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.

[28] 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.

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.

[12] His rock band called Riding the Low,[2] released an EP They Will Rob You of Your Gifts (2009),[3][29] and an album What Happened to the Get To Know Ya?

"[12] 2016 saw the band release 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.