Paul Higgins

Known for ActingScotland, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

No Holds Bard

Lawless

The Negotiator

The Rise of the Nutters

Spinners and Losers

Line of Duty

Slow Horses

Utopia

Raised by Wolves

The Thick of It

A Very Peculiar Practice

The Simpsons

Case Histories

Hope Springs

Vera

Silent Witness

Brian and Maggie

The Wrong Mans

The Ipcress File

Rik Mayall Presents

In the Loop

A Hartley Story

Victoria & Abdul

Birthday Girl

Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love

The Last Enemy

11th Hour

Red Road

The Party's Just Beginning

Apostle

Meat Puppet

Low Winter Sun

Bedrooms and Hallways

The Play on One

Complicity

Greed

Kill

Tumbledown

Beautiful Creatures

Riot

Couple in a Hole

Being Human

Murder

Hangar 10

Charlie Cloudhead

Utopia

New Town

Shell