
Paul Higgins
Biography
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.
Acting (27 movies)

Red Road
2006

Complicity
2000

Kill
2024

In the Loop
2009

Riot
1996

Beautiful Creatures
2000

Charlie Cloudhead
2016

A Hartley Story
2007

The Negotiator
1994

No Holds Bard
2009

Low Winter Sun
2006

Being Human
1994

Bedrooms and Hallways
1998

The Rise of the Nutters
2007

Birthday Girl
2002

The Party's Just Beginning
2018

Tumbledown
1988

Couple in a Hole
2016

Victoria & Abdul
2017

Lawless
2013

Apostle
2018

New Town
2009

Greed
2019

Spinners and Losers
2007

Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
1993

Meat Puppet
2024

11th Hour
2017
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Hangar 10 | 2014 | Producer |