Paul Higgins
Acting
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.
Filmography
Brian and Maggie
2025 · Series
Kill
2024 · Movie
Meat Puppet
2024 · Movie
Slow Horses
2022 · Series
The Ipcress File
2022 · Series
Greed
2019 · Movie
The Party's Just Beginning
2018 · Movie
Apostle
2018 · Movie
11th Hour
2017 · Movie
Victoria & Abdul
2017 · Movie
Charlie Cloudhead
2016 · Movie
Couple in a Hole
2016 · Movie
Raised by Wolves
2015 · Series
Hangar 10
2014 · Movie
Lawless
2013 · Movie
The Wrong Mans
2013 · Series
Utopia
2013 · Series
Utopia
2013 · Movie
Line of Duty
2012 · Series
Case Histories
2011 · Series
Vera
2011 · Series
Hope Springs
2009 · Series
New Town
2009 · Movie
No Holds Bard
2009 · Movie
In the Loop
2009 · Movie
The Last Enemy
2008 · Series
Shell
2007 · Movie
Spinners and Losers
2007 · Movie
A Hartley Story
2007 · Movie
The Rise of the Nutters
2007 · Movie
Red Road
2006 · Movie
Low Winter Sun
2006 · Movie
The Thick of It
2005 · Series
Birthday Girl
2002 · Movie
Murder
2002 · Series
Beautiful Creatures
2000 · Movie
Complicity
2000 · Movie
Bedrooms and Hallways
1998 · Movie
Riot
1996 · Movie
Staying Alive
1996 · Series
Silent Witness
1996 · Series
The Negotiator
1994 · Movie
Being Human
1994 · Movie
Rik Mayall Presents
1993 · Series
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
1993 · Movie
The Simpsons
1989 · Series
Tumbledown
1988 · Movie
A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
1988 · Movie
The Play on One
1988 · Series
A Very Peculiar Practice
1986 · Series