10 Most Outstanding Paddy Considine Performances

6. Submarine

Richard Ayoade’s offbeat coming-of-age comedy tells the story of Oliver, a 15-year-old loftily pretentious schoolboy.

Enter Considine as Oliver’s mother’s ex-boyfriend Graham Purvis, a preposterous self-styled mystic and new age guru, with a startling mullet and penchant for leather trousers.

Considine’s performance is consistently hilarious, whether he’s expounding on the mysterious properties of light in one of his motivational classes, practising kung-fu moves in the garden, or trying to entice Oliver’s mother into a van adorned with an image of his own face.