Paul Higgins is a Scottish actor, best known for appearing in the British television series The Thick of It, Utopia and Line of Duty.
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.
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Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7151278
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Filmography (Movies)
Kill
Character:Don
Release Date:06/09/2024
Meat Puppet
Character:University Dean (voice)
Release Date:09/03/2024
Greed
Character:Jim McBride
Release Date:07/09/2019
The Party's Just Beginning
Character:Luisaidh's Dad
Release Date:07/12/2018
Apostle
Character:Frank
Release Date:21/09/2018
11th Hour
Character:Drunk
Release Date:31/12/2017
Victoria & Abdul
Character:Dr. James Reid
Release Date:13/09/2017
Charlie Cloudhead
Character:Charlie
Release Date:04/10/2016
Couple in a Hole
Character:John
Release Date:06/04/2016
Lawless
Character:Simon Harding
Release Date:03/10/2013
New Town
Character:Hamish
Release Date:14/04/2009
No Holds Bard
Character:Struan Robertson
Release Date:25/01/2009
In the Loop
Character:Jamie McDonald
Release Date:22/01/2009
Shell
Character:The Salesman
Release Date:18/08/2007
Spinners and Losers
Character:Jamie
Release Date:03/07/2007
A Hartley Story
Character:Hartley
Release Date:20/04/2007
The Rise of the Nutters
Character:Jamie
Release Date:02/01/2007
Red Road
Character:Avery
Release Date:27/10/2006
Low Winter Sun
Character:David Westwood
Release Date:13/09/2006
Birthday Girl
Character:Drew
Release Date:22/12/2002
Beautiful Creatures
Character:Aidan
Release Date:23/08/2000
Complicity
Character:Andy
Release Date:06/05/2000
Bedrooms and Hallways
Character:John
Release Date:01/08/1998
Riot
Character:Gang Member
Release Date:01/12/1996
The Negotiator
Character:Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne
Release Date:31/05/1994
Being Human
Character:Soldier
Release Date:06/05/1994
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
Character:Writer
Release Date:20/05/1993
Tumbledown
Character:Saltemarsh
Release Date:29/05/1988
A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
Character:Murdo Caldwell
Release Date:16/02/1988
Television Appearances
Brian and Maggie
Character:Geoffrey Howe
Slow Horses
Character:Struan Loy
The Ipcress File
Character:Minister
Raised by Wolves
Character:Sean Garry
The Wrong Mans
Character:PC Hennessy
Utopia
Character:Michael Dugdale
Line of Duty
Character:ACC Derek Hilton
Line of Duty
Character:CS Derek Hilton
Case Histories
Character:Ian Kelso
Vera
Character:Clive Stringer
Hope Springs
Character:Gil Cameron
The Last Enemy
Character:Professor Lawrence Cooper
The Thick of It
Character:Jamie
Murder
Character:Lee Finch
Silent Witness
Character:Det Sgt Nick Wallace
Rik Mayall Presents
Character:Writer
The Simpsons
Character:Hamish (voice)
A Very Peculiar Practice
Character:Adie Shaw
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