Paul Higgins
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Place of Birth Scotland, UK
Paul Higgins
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
Actor
as Don
as Struan Loy
as Minister
as Jim McBride
as Luisaidh's Dad
as Frank
as Dr. James Reid
as Charlie
as John
as Sean Garry
as Simon Harding
as PC Hennessy
as Michael Dugdale
as ACC Derek Hilton
as Clive Stringer
as Hamish
as Struan Robertson
as Jamie McDonald
as Gil Cameron
as Professor Lawrence Cooper
as The Salesman
as Jamie
as Hartley
as Jamie
as Avery
as David Westwood
as Jamie
as Drew
as Lee Finch
as Lee Finch
as Aidan
as Andy
as John
as Gang Member
as Det Sgt Nick Wallace
as Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne
as Soldier
as Writer
as Writer
as Hamish (voice)
as Saltemarsh
as Murdo Caldwell
Producer
as Producer