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.
Fotos
Películas (30)
Kill
2024 · Don
Meat Puppet
2024 · University Dean (voice)
Greed
2019 · Jim McBride
The Party's Just Beginning
2018 · Luisaidh's Dad
Apostle
2018 · Frank
11th Hour
2017 · Drunk
Victoria & Abdul
2017 · Dr. James Reid
Charlie Cloudhead
2016 · Charlie
Couple in a Hole
2016 · John
Hangar 10
2014 · Producer
Lawless
2013 · Simon Harding
New Town
2009 · Hamish
No Holds Bard
2009 · Struan Robertson
In the Loop
2009 · Jamie McDonald
Shell
2007 · The Salesman
Spinners and Losers
2007 · Jamie
A Hartley Story
2007 · Hartley
The Rise of the Nutters
2007 · Jamie
Red Road
2006 · Avery
Low Winter Sun
2006 · David Westwood
Birthday Girl
2002 · Drew
Beautiful Creatures
2000 · Aidan
Complicity
2000 · Andy
Bedrooms and Hallways
1998 · John
Riot
1996 · Gang Member
The Negotiator
1994 · Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne
Being Human
1994 · Soldier
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
1993 · Writer
Tumbledown
1988 · Saltemarsh
A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
1988 · Murdo Caldwell
Series (19)
Brian and Maggie
2025 · Geoffrey Howe
Slow Horses
2022 · Struan Loy
The Ipcress File
2022 · Minister
Raised by Wolves
2015 · Sean Garry
The Wrong Mans
2013 · PC Hennessy
Utopia
2013 · Michael Dugdale
Line of Duty
2012 · ACC Derek Hilton, CS Derek Hilton
Case Histories
2011 · Ian Kelso
Vera
2011 · Clive Stringer
Hope Springs
2009 · Gil Cameron
The Last Enemy
2008 · Professor Lawrence Cooper
The Thick of It
2005 · Jamie
Murder
2002 · Lee Finch
Staying Alive
1996 · Alan McPherson
Silent Witness
1996 · Det Sgt Nick Wallace
Rik Mayall Presents
1993 · Writer
Los Simpson
1989 · Hamish (voice)
The Play on One
1988 · Murdo Caldwell
A Very Peculiar Practice
1986 · Adie Shaw