Paul Higgins is a Scottish actor, best known for appearing in the British television series The Thick of It, Utopia and Line of Duty.
Paul Higgins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 December 1964 |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, Writer |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
Early life
editHiggins was born in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was raised as a Roman Catholic, but now he considers himself a lapsed Catholic.[1] As a teenager, he trained to be a priest, but gave his training up aged 17 when he began dating.[2]
Career
editHiggins 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.[3]
Personal life
editHiggins is married to actress Amelia Bullmore, whom he met in 1992 while co-starring with her in A View from the Bridge in Manchester.[2] Since December 2019 he has been Chair of ACT, the Actors' Children's Trust, and since September 2021 a Trustee of The Vegan Society.
Filmography
edit| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-90 | Taggart | Alastair Finn/ David Crawford | TV series: 4 episodes |
| 1988 | The Play on One | Murdo Caldwell | TV series: 1 Episode ("A Wholly Healthy Glasgow") |
| 1990 | Boon | Simon | TV series: 1 Episode |
| 1994 | Being Human | Soldier | |
| 1996-1997 | Staying Alive | Alan McPherson | TV series: 12 episodes |
| 1998 | Bedrooms and Hallways | John | |
| 2000 | Complicity | Andy | |
| 2000 | Beautiful Creatures | Aidan | |
| 2005-2007 | The Thick of It | Jamie McDonald | TV series: 3 episodes |
| 2006 | Red Road | Avery | |
| 2008 | The Last Enemy | Professor Lawrence Cooper | TV series: 3 episodes |
| 2009 | Hope Springs | Gil Cameron | TV series: 8 episodes |
| 2009 | In the Loop | Jamie McDonald | |
| 2009 | Silent Witness | DS Nick Wallace | TV series: 2 episodes ("Safe") |
| 2011 | Vera | Clive Stringer | TV series: 1 Episode |
| 2013 | The Wrong Mans | PC Hennessy | TV series: 1 Episode |
| 2012-2017 | Line of Duty | ACC Derek Hilton | TV series: 11 episodes |
| 2013-2014 | Utopia | Michael Dugdale | TV series: 11 episodes |
| 2015 | Couple in a Hole | John | |
| 2016 | Raised by Wolves | Sean | TV series: 4 episodes |
| 2017 | Victoria & Abdul | Sir James Reid | |
| 2017 | Decline and Fall | Prison Officer | TV series: 1 Episode |
| 2018 | Apostle | Frank | |
| 2018 | The Party's Just Beginning | Liusaidh's Dad | |
| 2019 | Cold Call | Kirk Wiley | TV series: 4 episodes |
| 2019 | Greed | Jim McBride | |
| 2021 | Beep | Father Sydney | TV movie |
| 2022 | Slow Horses | Struan Loy | TV series: 3 episodes |
References
edit- ^ English, Paul (27 November 2008). "Paul Higgins: Priesthood just wasn't for me – so I chose acting". Glasgow: Daily Record. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
- ^ a b Higgins, Paul (15 August 2007). "Stuart Jeffries meets The Thick of It actor Paul Higgins". The Guardian. London.
- ^ "No One Will Ever Forgive Us". National Theatre of Scotland. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
External links
edit- Paul Higgins at IMDb