Paul Higgins
Birthday: | Place of Birth: Scotland, UKPaul 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Geoffrey Howe
as Don
as University Dean (voice)
as Minister
as Frank
as Luisaidh's Dad
as Dr. James Reid
as Charlie
as John
as Michael Dugdale
as Simon Harding
as Gil Cameron
as Hamish
as Jamie McDonald
as Struan Robertson
as Professor Lawrence Cooper
as Avery
as Hartley
as Jamie
as Jamie
as Jamie
as David Westwood
as Drew
as Lee Finch
as Andy
as John
as Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne
as Writer
