Personal Info
Paul Higgins
Acting
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 i…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Kill
as Don
Meat Puppet
as University Dean (voice)
Greed
as Jim McBride
Apostle
as Frank
The Party's Just Beginning
as Luisaidh's Dad
Victoria & Abdul
as Dr. James Reid
11th Hour
as Drunk
Couple in a Hole
as John
Charlie Cloudhead
as Charlie
Lawless
as Simon Harding
TV Shows
Brian and Maggie
as Geoffrey Howe · 2 ep.
Slow Horses
as Struan Loy · 3 ep.
The Ipcress File
as Minister · 6 ep.
Raised by Wolves
as Sean Garry · 6 ep.
Utopia
as Michael Dugdale · 12 ep.
The Wrong Mans
as PC Hennessy · 1 ep.
Line of Duty
as CS Derek Hilton · 4 ep.
Vera
as Clive Stringer · 1 ep.
Case Histories
as Ian Kelso · 1 ep.
Hope Springs
as Gil Cameron · 8 ep.