Name
Paul Higgins
Known For
Acting
Birthday
(56 years old)
Place of Birth
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
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In a bleak Inverness midwinter, Luisaidh is careening off the rails after the suicide of h...
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- 2006 Red Road as Avery
- 2000 Complicity as Andy
- 2024 Kill as Don
- 2009 In the Loop as Jamie McDonald
- 1996 Riot as Gang Member
- 2000 Beautiful Creatures as Aidan
- 2016 Charlie Cloudhead as Charlie
- 2007 A Hartley Story as Hartley
- 1994 The Negotiator as Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne
- 2009 No Holds Bard as Struan Robertson
- 2006 Low Winter Sun as David Westwood
- 1994 Being Human as Soldier
- 1998 Bedrooms and Hallways as John
- 2007 The Rise of the Nutters as Jamie
- 2007 Shell as The Salesman
- 1988 A Wholly Healthy Glasgow as Murdo Caldwell
- 2002 Birthday Girl as Drew
- 2018 The Party's Just Beginning as Luisaidh's Dad
- 1988 Tumbledown as Saltemarsh
- 2016 Couple in a Hole as John
- 2017 Victoria & Abdul as Dr. James Reid
- 2013 Lawless as Simon Harding
- 2018 Apostle as Frank
- 2009 New Town as Hamish
- 2019 Greed as Jim McBride
- 2007 Spinners and Losers as Jamie
- 1993 Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love as Writer
- 2024 Meat Puppet as University Dean (voice)
- 2017 11th Hour as Drunk
- 2013 Utopia as Dugdale
- 2009 Hope Springs ( 8 episodes ) as Gil Cameron
- 2013 Utopia ( 12 episodes ) as Michael Dugdale
- 2011 Vera ( 1 episode ) as Clive Stringer
- 2013 The Wrong Mans ( 1 episode ) as PC Hennessy
- 1993 Rik Mayall Presents ( 1 episode ) as Writer
- 2012 Line of Duty ( 6 episodes ) as ACC Derek Hilton
- 2022 The Ipcress File ( 6 episodes ) as Minister
- 2022 Slow Horses ( 4 episodes ) as Struan Loy
- 2015 Raised by Wolves ( 6 episodes ) as Sean Garry
- 1989 The Simpsons ( 1 episode ) as Hamish (voice)
- 2002 Murder ( 4 episodes ) as Lee Finch
- 2005 The Thick of It ( 1 episode ) as Jamie
- 1996 Silent Witness ( 2 episodes ) as Det Sgt Nick Wallace
- 2011 Case Histories ( 1 episode ) as Ian Kelso
- 2025 Brian and Maggie ( 2 episodes ) as Geoffrey Howe
- 1986 A Very Peculiar Practice ( 1 episode ) as Adie Shaw
- 2012 Line of Duty ( 4 episodes ) as CS Derek Hilton
- 2008 The Last Enemy ( 3 episodes ) as Professor Lawrence Cooper
- 1988 The Play on One ( 1 episode ) as Murdo Caldwell
- 1996 Staying Alive ( 12 episodes ) as Alan McPherson
