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.
Filmography
all 44
Movies 28
TV Shows 16
Producer 1
Writer 1
Voice 1
Kill (2023)
Slow Horses (2022)
The Ipcress File (2022)
Beep (2021)
Cold Call (2019)
Greed (2019)
The Party's Just Beginning (2018)
Apostle (2018)
Victoria & Abdul (2017)
Charlie Cloudhead (2016)
Couple in a Hole (2016)
Raised by Wolves (2015)
Hangar 10 (2014)
Lawless (2013)
The Wrong Mans (2013)
Utopia (2013)
Line of Duty (2012)
Vera (2011)
Hope Springs (2009)
New Town (2009)
No Holds Bard (2009)
In the Loop (2009)
The Last Enemy (2008)
Shell (2007)
Spinners and Losers (2007)
A Hartley Story (2007)
The Rise of the Nutters (2007)
Red Road (2006)
Low Winter Sun (2006)
The Thick of It (2005)
Birthday Girl (2002)
Murder (2002)
Murder (2002)
Beautiful Creatures (2000)
Complicity (2000)
Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
Riot (1996)
Silent Witness (1996)
The Negotiator (1994)
Being Human (1994)
Rik Mayall Presents (1993)
The Simpsons (1989)
Tumbledown (1988)
A Wholly Healthy Glasgow (1988)
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GenderMale
Birthday1964-01-01 (60 years old)
Birth PlaceLanarkshire, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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