Paul Higgins
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.
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ActingGender
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28Place of birth
Scotland, UKCast credits
Complicity
AndyRed Road
AveryIn the Loop
Jamie McDonaldLow Winter Sun
David WestwoodBeing Human
SoldierBedrooms and Hallways
JohnThe Rise of the Nutters
JamieThe Party's Just Beginning
Luisaidh's DadBirthday Girl
DrewTumbledown
SaltemarshCouple in a Hole
JohnVictoria & Abdul
Dr. James ReidLawless
Simon HardingApostle
FrankNew Town
HamishGreed
Jim McBrideSpinners and Losers
JamieRiot
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