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Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: 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.
Don
5.7
2024
Struan Loy · (3 episodes)
7.9
2022
Minister · (6 episodes)
7.1
2022
Jim McBride
5.7
2019
Luisaidh's Dad
6.3
2018
Frank
6.1
2018
Dr. James Reid
6.9
2017
Charlie
0.0
2016
John
5.3
2016
Sean Garry · (6 episodes)
7.8
2015
Simon Harding
10.0
2013
PC Hennessy · (1 episode)
7.3
2013
Michael Dugdale · (12 episodes)
8.0
2013
ACC Derek Hilton · (6 episodes)
8.3
2012
Ian Kelso · (1 episode)
7.9
2011
Clive Stringer · (1 episode)
7.4
2011
Gil Cameron · (8 episodes)
8.0
2009
Hamish
0.0
2009
Struan Robertson
10.0
2009
Jamie McDonald
7.0
2009
Professor Lawrence Cooper · (5 episodes)
6.8
2008
The Salesman
0.0
2007
Jamie
8.0
2007
Hartley
0.0
2007
Jamie
8.1
2007
Avery
6.5
2006
David Westwood
6.6
2006
Jamie · (1 episode)
8.0
2005
Drew
0.0
2002
Lee Finch · (4 episodes)
4.0
2002
Lee Finch
0.0
2002
Aidan
5.7
2000
Andy
5.9
2000
John
6.2
1998
Gang Member
5.3
1996
Det Sgt Nick Wallace · (2 episodes)
7.5
1996
Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne
0.0
1994
Soldier
5.0
1994
Writer
6.5
1993
Writer · (1 episode)
7.3
1993
Hamish (voice) · (1 episode)
8.0
1989
Saltemarsh
5.9
1988
Murdo Caldwell
0.0
1988