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Paul Higgins
Actor, Producer
Born January 1, 1964 (60 years)
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.
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.
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Filmography
| 2023 | Betrayal · as Don |
| 2022 | Slow Horses (TV Series) · as Struan Loy |
| 2022 | The Ipcress File (TV Series) · as Minister |
| 2019 | Cold Call (TV Series) · as Kirk Wiley |
| 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 |
| 2017 | Decline and Fall (TV Series) · as Chief Warder |
| 2015 | Couple in a Hole · as John |
| 2013 | Raised by Wolves (2015) (TV Series) · as Sean Garry |
| 2013 | Lawless · as Simon Harding |
| 2013 | The Wrong Mans (TV Series) · as Pc Hennessy |
| 2013 | Utopia (TV Series) · as Michael Dugdale |
| 2012 | Line of Duty (TV Series) · as Acc Derek Hilton |
| 2011 | Case Histories (TV Series) · as Ian Kelso |
| 2011 | Vera (TV Series) · as Clive Stringer |
| 2009 | Hope Springs (TV Series) · as Gil Cameron |
| 2009 | In the Loop · as Jamie Mcdonald |
| 2009 | Purves + Pekkala · as Hamish |
| 2008 | The Last Enemy (TV Series) · as Professor Lawrence Cooper |
| 2007 | Spinners and Losers · as Jamie |
| 2006 | Red Road · as Avery |
| 2006 | Low Winter Sun · as David Westwood |
| 2005 | The Thick of It (TV Series) · as Jamie |
| 2002 | Murder (TV Series) · as Lee Finch |
| 2000 | Beautiful Creatures · as Aidan |
| 2000 | Complicity · as Andy |
| 1998 | Bedrooms and Hallways · as John |
| 1996 | Riot · as Gang Member |
| 1996 | Silent Witness (TV Series) · as Det Sgt Nick Wallace |
| 1995 | Dangerfield (TV Series) · as Glenn Jones |
| 1994 | The Negotiator · as Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne |
| 1994 | Being Human · as Soldier |
| 1993 | Doctor Finlay (1993) (TV Series) · as Danny Gallagher |
| 1992 | Between The Lines (TV Series) · as David Ray |
| 1991 | Clarissa (TV Series) · as Preacher |
| 1989 | The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Hamish (voice) |
| 1988 | Tumbledown · as Saltemarsh |
| 1988 | The Play on One (TV Series) · as Murdo Caldwell |
| 1986 | A Very Peculiar Practice (TV Series) · as Adie Shaw |
| 1986 | Boon (TV Series) · as Simon |
| 1983 | Taggart (TV Series) · as Alastair Finn |