Paul Higgins
Known For
Acting
Born
in Scotland, UK
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.
Most Known For
The Simpsons
as Hamish (voice)
Vera
as Clive Stringer
Slow Horses
as Struan Loy
Silent Witness
as Det Sgt Nick Wallace
Line of Duty
as ACC Derek Hilton
Line of Duty
as CS Derek Hilton
Utopia
as Michael Dugdale
The Thick of It
as Jamie
Apostle
as Frank
A Very Peculiar Practice
as Adie Shaw
Case Histories
as Ian Kelso
The Wrong Mans
as PC Hennessy
Meat Puppet
as University Dean (voice)
Birthday Girl
as Drew
The Ipcress File
as Minister
Brian and Maggie
as Geoffrey Howe
Raised by Wolves
as Sean Garry
Greed
as Jim McBride
The Last Enemy
as Professor Lawrence Cooper
Victoria & Abdul
as Dr. James Reid