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Paul Higgins

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.

Personal information

Birth Place

Scotland, UK

Movies and TV shows :

A Hartley Story

A Hartley Story

2007

0.0

Movie
A Wholly Healthy Glasgow

A Wholly Healthy Glasgow

1988

0.0

Movie
Apostle

Apostle

2018

6.1

Movie
Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures

2000

5.7

Movie
Bedrooms and Hallways

Bedrooms and Hallways

1998

6.2

Movie
Being Human

Being Human

1994

5.0

Movie
Birthday Girl

Birthday Girl

2002

0.0

Movie
poster

Case Histories

2011

7.9

TV
Charlie Cloudhead

Charlie Cloudhead

2016

0.0

Movie
Complicity

Complicity

2000

5.9

Movie
Couple in a Hole

Couple in a Hole

2016

5.3

Movie
Greed

Greed

2019

5.7

Movie
poster

Hope Springs

2009

8.0

TV
In the Loop

In the Loop

2009

7.0

Movie
Kill

Kill

2024

5.7

Movie
Lawless

Lawless

2013

10.0

Movie
poster

Line of Duty

2012

8.3

TV
Low Winter Sun

Low Winter Sun

2006

6.6

Movie
Murder

Murder

2002

0.0

Movie
poster

Murder

2002

4.0

TV
New Town

New Town

2009

0.0

Movie
No Holds Bard

No Holds Bard

2009

10.0

Movie
poster

Raised by Wolves

2015

7.8

TV
Red Road

Red Road

2006

6.5

Movie
poster

Rik Mayall Presents

1993

7.3

TV
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love

Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love

1993

6.5

Movie
Riot

Riot

1996

5.3

Movie
Shell

Shell

2007

0.0

Movie
poster

Silent Witness

1996

7.5

TV
poster

Slow Horses

2022

7.9

TV
Spinners and Losers

Spinners and Losers

2007

8.0

Movie
poster

The Ipcress File

2022

7.1

TV
poster

The Last Enemy

2008

6.8

TV
The Negotiator

The Negotiator

1994

0.0

Movie
The Party's Just Beginning

The Party's Just Beginning

2018

6.3

Movie
The Rise of the Nutters

The Rise of the Nutters

2007

8.1

Movie
poster

The Simpsons

1989

8.0

TV
poster

The Thick of It

2005

8.0

TV
poster

The Wrong Mans

2013

7.3

TV
Tumbledown

Tumbledown

1988

5.9

Movie
poster

Utopia

2013

8.0

TV
poster

Vera

2011

7.4

TV
Victoria & Abdul

Victoria & Abdul

2017

6.9

Movie