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Paul Higgins

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55 Years Old

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.

Born

Scotland, UK on 1st January 1970

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The Simpsons
Hamish (voice)
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Slow Horses
Struan Loy
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Silent Witness
Det Sgt Nick Wallace
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Vera
Clive Stringer
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Line of Duty
ACC Derek Hilton
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The Thick of It
Jamie
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Utopia
Michael Dugdale
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The Wrong Mans
PC Hennessy
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The Ipcress File
Minister
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Case Histories
Ian Kelso
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Raised by Wolves
Sean Garry
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The Last Enemy
Professor Lawrence Cooper
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Murder
Lee Finch
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Brian and Maggie
Geoffrey Howe
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Apostle
Frank
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Rik Mayall Presents
Writer
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In the Loop
Jamie McDonald
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Victoria & Abdul
Dr. James Reid
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Hope Springs
Gil Cameron
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Greed
Jim McBride
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Kill
Don
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Beautiful Creatures
Aidan
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Being Human
Soldier
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The Party's Just Beginning
Luisaidh's Dad
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Riot
Gang Member
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Bedrooms and Hallways
John
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Red Road
Avery
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Complicity
Andy
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The Rise of the Nutters
Jamie
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Tumbledown
Saltemarsh
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The Negotiator
Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne
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Lawless
Simon Harding
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Meat Puppet
University Dean (voice)
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Low Winter Sun
David Westwood
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Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
Writer
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Spinners and Losers
Jamie
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Couple in a Hole
John
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No Holds Bard
Struan Robertson
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New Town
Hamish
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Charlie Cloudhead
Charlie
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Shell
The Salesman
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Birthday Girl
Drew
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A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
Murdo Caldwell
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A Hartley Story
Hartley