
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.

The Simpsons
TV • 1989

Silent Witness
TV • 1996

Vera
TV • 2011

Slow Horses
TV • 2022

Line of Duty
TV • 2012

Line of Duty
TV • 2012

The Thick of It
TV • 2005

Utopia
TV • 2013

Case Histories
TV • 2011

A Very Peculiar Practice
TV • 1986

The Ipcress File
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The Wrong Mans
TV • 2013

Rik Mayall Presents
TV • 1993

Apostle
MOVIE • 2018

Brian and Maggie
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The Last Enemy
TV • 2008

Murder
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Hope Springs
TV • 2009