Paul Higgins
Acting
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. H
🎬 Movies (20)
Kill
2024
Don
Meat Puppet
2024
University Dean (voice)
Greed
2019
Jim McBride
The Party's Just Beginning
2018
Luisaidh's Dad
Apostle
2018
Frank
11th Hour
2017
Drunk
Victoria & Abdul
2017
Dr. James Reid
Charlie Cloudhead
2016
Charlie
Couple in a Hole
2016
John
Lawless
2013
Simon Harding
Utopia
2013
Dugdale
New Town
2009
Hamish
No Holds Bard
2009
Struan Robertson
In the Loop
2009
Jamie McDonald
Shell
2007
The Salesman
Spinners and Losers
2007
Jamie
A Hartley Story
2007
Hartley
The Rise of the Nutters
2007
Jamie
Red Road
2006
Avery
Low Winter Sun
2006
David Westwood
📺 TV Shows (19)
Brian and Maggie
2025
Geoffrey Howe
Slow Horses
2022
Struan Loy
The Ipcress File
2022
Minister
Raised by Wolves
2015
Sean Garry
The Wrong Mans
2013
PC Hennessy
Utopia
2013
Michael Dugdale
Line of Duty
2012
ACC Derek Hilton
Line of Duty
2012
CS Derek Hilton
Case Histories
2011
Ian Kelso
Vera
2011
Clive Stringer
Hope Springs
2009
Gil Cameron
The Last Enemy
2008
Professor Lawrence Cooper
The Thick of It
2005
Jamie
Murder
2002
Lee Finch
Silent Witness
1996
Det Sgt Nick Wallace
Rik Mayall Presents
1993
Writer
The Simpsons
1989
Hamish (voice)
The Play on One
1988
Murdo Caldwell
A Very Peculiar Practice
1986
Adie Shaw