Paul Higgins
- Known for
- Acting
- Birthplace
- Scotland, UK
Biography
Paul Higgins is a Scottish actor, best known for appearing in the British television series The Thick of It, Utopia and Line of Duty. Higgins was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was raised as a Roman Catholic, but now he considers himself a lapsed Catholic. As a teenager, he trained to be a priest, but gave his training up aged 17 when he began dating. Higgins has appeared onstage in Paul and Black Watch, and in the film Complicity. He played Alan in Staying Alive, a hospital drama on ITV. He has also played Jamie McDonald, an aggressive press officer, in the BBC show The Thick of It and its spin-off feature-length film, In the Loop. In 2009, he appeared as Gil Cameron on the BBC drama Hope Springs. He played Michael Dugdale in Channel 4's acclaimed conspiracy thriller Utopia. In 2013 he appeared in series 1 of the BBC series Line of Duty and returned for season 4 in 2017. He wrote a play titled Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, which was performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in a co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland in November 2008.
Known For
Filmography
Brian and Maggie
TV · as Geoffrey Howe · 2 eps
Kill
Movie · as Don
Meat Puppet
Movie · as University Dean (voice)
The Ipcress File
TV · as Minister · 6 eps
Slow Horses
TV · as Struan Loy · 4 eps
Greed
Movie · as Jim McBride
The Party's Just Beginning
Movie · as Luisaidh's Dad
Apostle
Movie · as Frank
Victoria & Abdul
Movie · as Dr. James Reid
11th Hour
Movie · as Drunk
Charlie Cloudhead
Movie · as Charlie
Couple in a Hole
Movie · as John
Raised by Wolves
TV · as Sean Garry · 6 eps
Lawless
Movie · as Simon Harding
Utopia
TV · as Michael Dugdale · 12 eps
The Wrong Mans
TV · as PC Hennessy · 1 ep
Line of Duty
TV · as ACC Derek Hilton, CS Derek Hilton · 6 eps
Vera
TV · as Clive Stringer · 1 ep
Case Histories
TV · as Ian Kelso · 1 ep
In the Loop
Movie · as Jamie McDonald
No Holds Bard
Movie · as Struan Robertson
New Town
Movie · as Hamish
Hope Springs
TV · as Gil Cameron · 8 eps
The Last Enemy
TV · as Professor Lawrence Cooper · 3 eps
A Hartley Story
Movie · as Hartley
The Rise of the Nutters
Movie · as Jamie
Shell
Movie · as The Salesman
Spinners and Losers
Movie · as Jamie
Red Road
Movie · as Avery
Low Winter Sun
Movie · as David Westwood
The Thick of It
TV · as Jamie · 1 ep
Birthday Girl
Movie · as Drew
Murder
TV · as Lee Finch · 4 eps
Complicity
Movie · as Andy
Beautiful Creatures
Movie · as Aidan
Bedrooms and Hallways
Movie · as John
Riot
Movie · as Gang Member
Silent Witness
TV · as Det Sgt Nick Wallace · 2 eps
Staying Alive
TV · as Alan McPherson · 12 eps
The Negotiator
Movie · as Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne
Being Human
Movie · as Soldier
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
Movie · as Writer
Rik Mayall Presents
TV · as Writer · 1 ep
The Simpsons
TV · as Hamish (voice) · 1 ep
A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
Movie · as Murdo Caldwell
Tumbledown
Movie · as Saltemarsh
The Play on One
TV · as Murdo Caldwell · 1 ep
A Very Peculiar Practice
TV · as Adie Shaw · 1 ep