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

2024
Kill

as Don

2022
Slow Horses

as Struan Loy

2022
The Ipcress File

as Minister

2019
Greed

as Jim McBride

2018
The Party's Just Beginning

as Luisaidh's Dad

2018
Apostle

as Frank

2017
Victoria & Abdul

as Dr. James Reid

2016
2016
2015
Raised by Wolves

as Sean Garry

2013
Lawless

as Simon Harding

2013
The Wrong Mans

as PC Hennessy

2013
Utopia

as Michael Dugdale

2012
Line of Duty

as ACC Derek Hilton

2011
Case Histories

as Ian Kelso

2011
Vera

as Clive Stringer

2009
New Town

as Hamish

2009
No Holds Bard

as Struan Robertson

2009
In the Loop

as Jamie McDonald

2009
Hope Springs

as Gil Cameron

2008
The Last Enemy

as Professor Lawrence Cooper

2007
Shell

as The Salesman

2007
2007
A Hartley Story

as Hartley

2006
Red Road

as Avery

2006
Low Winter Sun

as David Westwood

2005
2002
2002
Murder

as Lee Finch

2002
Murder

as Lee Finch

2000
2000
Complicity

as Andy

1996
Riot

as Gang Member

1996
Silent Witness

as Det Sgt Nick Wallace

1994
The Negotiator

as Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne

1994
Being Human

as Soldier

1993
1989
The Simpsons

as Hamish (voice)

1988
Tumbledown

as Saltemarsh

1988
A Wholly Healthy Glasgow

as Murdo Caldwell

Producer

2014
Hangar 10

as Producer