Paul Higgins
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.
Played In
Brian and Maggie
Geoffrey Howe
Kill
Don
Meat Puppet
University Dean (voice)
Slow Horses
Struan Loy
The Ipcress File
Minister
Greed
Jim McBride
The Party's Just Beginning
Luisaidh's Dad
Apostle
Frank
11th Hour
Drunk
Victoria & Abdul
Dr. James Reid
Charlie Cloudhead
Charlie
Couple in a Hole
John
Raised by Wolves
Sean Garry
Lawless
Simon Harding
The Wrong Mans
PC Hennessy
Utopia
Dugdale
Utopia
Michael Dugdale
Line of Duty
ACC Derek Hilton
Line of Duty
CS Derek Hilton
Case Histories
Ian Kelso
Vera
Clive Stringer
Hope Springs
Gil Cameron
New Town
Hamish
No Holds Bard
Struan Robertson
In the Loop
Jamie McDonald
The Last Enemy
Professor Lawrence Cooper
Shell
The Salesman
Spinners and Losers
Jamie
A Hartley Story
Hartley
The Rise of the Nutters
Jamie
Red Road
Avery
Low Winter Sun
David Westwood
The Thick of It
Jamie
Birthday Girl
Drew
Murder
Lee Finch
Beautiful Creatures
Aidan
Complicity
Andy
Bedrooms and Hallways
John
Riot
Gang Member
Silent Witness
Det Sgt Nick Wallace
The Negotiator
Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne
Being Human
Soldier
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
Writer
Rik Mayall Presents
Writer
The Simpsons
Hamish (voice)
Tumbledown
Saltemarsh
A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
Murdo Caldwell
The Play on One
Murdo Caldwell
A Very Peculiar Practice
Adie Shaw