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 pries ... t, 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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Utopia
as Michael Dugdale
Episodes: 12
First Aired: Jan 15, 2013
Hope Springs
as Gil Cameron
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Jun 07, 2009
Line of Duty
as ACC Derek Hilton
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Jun 26, 2012
The Ipcress File
as Minister
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Mar 06, 2022
Raised by Wolves
as Sean Garry
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Mar 16, 2015
The Last Enemy
as Professor Lawrence Cooper
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Feb 17, 2008
Murder
as Lee Finch
Episodes: 4
First Aired: May 29, 2002
Slow Horses
as Struan Loy
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Apr 01, 2022
Silent Witness
as Det Sgt Nick Wallace
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 21, 1996
Brian and Maggie
as Geoffrey Howe
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 29, 2025
Vera
as Clive Stringer
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 01, 2011
The Wrong Mans
as PC Hennessy
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 2013
Rik Mayall Presents
as Writer
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 20, 1993
The Simpsons
as Hamish (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 17, 1989
The Thick of It
as Jamie
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 19, 2005
Case Histories
as Ian Kelso
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 05, 2011
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