Paul Higgins

Paul Higgins

Place of Birth
Scotland, UK
Known For
Acting

Details

Place of Birth
Scotland, UK
Known For
Acting

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.

Paul Higgins's LGBTQ+ Titles

Victoria & Abdul
Victoria & Abdul
Dr. James Reid
Bedrooms and Hallways
Bedrooms and Hallways
John

Acting (42)

2024
Kill as Don
2022
Slow Horses as Struan Loy (3 episodes)
2022
The Ipcress File as Minister (6 episodes)
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
Charlie Cloudhead as Charlie
2016
Couple in a Hole as John
2015
Raised by Wolves as Sean Garry (6 episodes)
2013
Lawless as Simon Harding
2013
The Wrong Mans as PC Hennessy (1 episode)
2013
Utopia as Michael Dugdale (12 episodes)
2012
Line of Duty as ACC Derek Hilton (6 episodes)
2011
Vera as Clive Stringer (1 episode)
2009
Hope Springs as Gil Cameron (8 episodes)
2009
New Town as Hamish
2009
No Holds Bard as Struan Robertson
2009
In the Loop as Jamie McDonald
2008
The Last Enemy as Professor Lawrence Cooper (5 episodes)
2007
Shell as The Salesman
2007
Spinners and Losers as Jamie
2007
A Hartley Story as Hartley
2007
The Rise of the Nutters as Jamie
2006
Red Road as Avery
2006
Low Winter Sun as David Westwood
2005
The Thick of It as Jamie (1 episode)
2002
Birthday Girl as Drew
2002
Murder as Lee Finch (4 episodes)
2002
Murder as Lee Finch
2000
Beautiful Creatures as Aidan
2000
Complicity as Andy
1998
1996
Riot as Gang Member
1996
Silent Witness as Det Sgt Nick Wallace (2 episodes)
1994
The Negotiator as Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne
1994
Being Human as Soldier
1993
Rik Mayall Presents as Writer (1 episode)
1993
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love as Writer
1989
The Simpsons as Hamish (voice) (1 episode)
1988
Tumbledown as Saltemarsh
1988
A Wholly Healthy Glasgow as Murdo Caldwell

Production (1)

2014
Hangar 10 • Producer
• Producer