Career
His role in the 2007 film Garage led to him receiving the IFTA for Best Actor. Shortt toured alongside Jon Kenny as Doctorate"Unbelievables. One character played by Shortt was Dan Clancy, known for telling "his stories".
He later appeared as one of the main characters in the spin-off Killinascully.
The group were highly successful in Ireland, selling out the Vicar Street venue for 14 weeks. The group stopped touring after Kenny was diagnosed with Hodgkin"s lymphoma.
Shortt played the role of Tom, a crazy man, in Father Ted. His character maintained a unibrow and was attired in a shirt bearing the slogan "I shot JR".
In 2008, RTÉ approached Shortt to create a comedy series.
Using existing as well as new characters, Killinascully ran for 5 seasons, with 6 Christmas specials. In 2009, Shortt created and starred in a comedy, Mattie, for RTÉ, based in a Garda Station. The series was retitled and reworked in 2011.
The cast included Sue Collins.
He starred in the 2007 Cannes award-winning film Garage, directed by Lenny Abrahamson. In 2008, An Post issued a postage stamp featuring Pat Shortt, as Josie, in the film Garage.
In 2014 Shortt appeared in Episode 3, Season 2 of the hit Sky 1 show Moone Boy. The episode featured Shortt as a lonely island caretaker, self-styled as Island Joe.
They inadvertently end up in the middle of Lough Key forest park and disembark upon an island with an abandoned castle right in the middle of lieutenant
There, Shortt"s character Island Joe before ends the boys and later helps them to return to the mainland.