Paul Higgins
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 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.
Known For
All Movies (30)
- Kill2024 · as Don
- Meat Puppet2024 · as University Dean (voice)
- Greed2019 · as Jim McBride
- The Party's Just Beginning2018 · as Luisaidh's Dad
- Apostle2018 · as Frank
- 11th Hour2017 · as Drunk
- Victoria & Abdul2017 · as Dr. James Reid
- Charlie Cloudhead2016 · as Charlie
- Couple in a Hole2016 · as John
- Lawless2013 · as Simon Harding
- Utopia2013 · as Dugdale
- New Town2009 · as Hamish
- No Holds Bard2009 · as Struan Robertson
- In the Loop2009 · as Jamie McDonald
- Shell2007 · as The Salesman
- Spinners and Losers2007 · as Jamie
- A Hartley Story2007 · as Hartley
- The Rise of the Nutters2007 · as Jamie
- Red Road2006 · as Avery
- Low Winter Sun2006 · as David Westwood
- Birthday Girl2002 · as Drew
- Beautiful Creatures2000 · as Aidan
- Complicity2000 · as Andy
- Bedrooms and Hallways1998 · as John
- Riot1996 · as Gang Member
- The Negotiator1994 · as Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne
- Being Human1994 · as Soldier
- Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love1993 · as Writer
- Tumbledown1988 · as Saltemarsh
- A Wholly Healthy Glasgow1988 · as Murdo Caldwell
All TV Shows (19)
- Brian and Maggie2025 · as Geoffrey Howe
- Slow Horses2022 · as Struan Loy
- The Ipcress File2022 · as Minister
- Raised by Wolves2015 · as Sean Garry
- The Wrong Mans2013 · as PC Hennessy
- Utopia2013 · as Michael Dugdale
- Line of Duty2012 · as ACC Derek Hilton
- Line of Duty2012 · as CS Derek Hilton
- Case Histories2011 · as Ian Kelso
- Vera2011 · as Clive Stringer
- Hope Springs2009 · as Gil Cameron
- The Last Enemy2008 · as Professor Lawrence Cooper
- The Thick of It2005 · as Jamie
- Murder2002 · as Lee Finch
- Silent Witness1996 · as Det Sgt Nick Wallace
- Rik Mayall Presents1993 · as Writer
- The Simpsons1989 · as Hamish (voice)
- The Play on One1988 · as Murdo Caldwell
- A Very Peculiar Practice1986 · as Adie Shaw






