Acting ยท Scotland, 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.
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as Geoffrey Howe
MovieKill
2024
as Don
MovieMeat Puppet
2024
as University Dean (voice)
TVSlow Horses
2022
as Struan Loy
TVThe Ipcress File
2022
as Minister
MovieGreed
2019
as Jim McBride
MovieThe Party's Just Beginning
2018
as Luisaidh's Dad
MovieApostle
2018
as Frank
Movie11th Hour
2017
as Drunk
MovieVictoria & Abdul
2017
as Dr. James Reid
MovieCharlie Cloudhead
2016
as Charlie
MovieCouple in a Hole
2016
as John
TVRaised by Wolves
2015
as Sean Garry
MovieLawless
2013
as Simon Harding
TVThe Wrong Mans
2013
as PC Hennessy
MovieUtopia
2013
as Dugdale
TVUtopia
2013
as Michael Dugdale
TVLine of Duty
2012
as ACC Derek Hilton
TVCase Histories
2011
as Ian Kelso
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2011
as Clive Stringer
TVHope Springs
2009
as Gil Cameron
MovieNew Town
2009
as Hamish
MovieNo Holds Bard
2009
as Struan Robertson
MovieIn the Loop
2009
as Jamie McDonald
TVThe Last Enemy
2008
as Professor Lawrence Cooper
Shell
2007
as The Salesman
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2007
as Jamie
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2007
as Hartley
MovieThe Rise of the Nutters
2007
as Jamie
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2006
as Avery
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2006
as David Westwood
TVThe Thick of It
2005
as Jamie
MovieBirthday Girl
2002
as Drew
TVMurder
2002
as Lee Finch
MovieBeautiful Creatures
2000
as Aidan
MovieComplicity
2000
as Andy
MovieBedrooms and Hallways
1998
as John
MovieRiot
1996
as Gang Member
TVSilent Witness
1996
as Det Sgt Nick Wallace
MovieThe Negotiator
1994
as Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne
MovieBeing Human
1994
as Soldier
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1993
as Writer
TVRik Mayall Presents
1993
as Writer
TVThe Simpsons
1989
as Hamish (voice)
MovieTumbledown
1988
as Saltemarsh
A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
1988
as Murdo Caldwell
TVThe Play on One
1988
as Murdo Caldwell
TVA Very Peculiar Practice
1986
as Adie Shaw
