Paul Higgins

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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.

Starred In

2006
Movie

Red Road

2000
Movie

Complicity

2024
Movie

Kill

2009
Movie

In the Loop

1996
Movie

Riot

2016
Movie

Charlie Cloudhead

2007
Movie

A Hartley Story

1994
Movie

The Negotiator

2009
Movie

No Holds Bard

2006
Movie

Low Winter Sun

1994
Movie

Being Human

2007
Movie

Shell

2002
Movie

Birthday Girl

1988
Movie

Tumbledown

2016
Movie

Couple in a Hole

2017
Movie

Victoria & Abdul

2013
Movie

Lawless

2018
Movie

Apostle

2009
Movie

New Town

2019
Movie

Greed

2024
Movie

Meat Puppet

2009
Tv

Hope Springs

2013
Tv

Utopia

2011
Tv

Vera

2012
Tv

Line of Duty

2022
Tv

Slow Horses

1989
Tv

The Simpsons

2002
Tv

Murder