Paul Higgins
- Recitazione
- Scotland, UK
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- Brian and Maggie · Geoffrey Howe
- Kill · Don
- Meat Puppet · University Dean (Voce)
- Slow Horses · Struan Loy
- Harry Palmer - Il caso Ipcress · Minister
- Greed - Fame di soldi · Jim McBride
- The Party's Just Beginning · Luisaidh's Dad
- Apostolo · Frank
- 11th Hour · Drunk
- Vittoria e Abdul · Dr. James Reid
- Charlie Cloudhead · Charlie
- Couple in a Hole · John
- Raised by Wolves · Sean Garry
- Hangar 10 · Produzione
- Lawless · Simon Harding
- The Wrong Mans · PC Hennessy
- Utopia · Michael Dugdale
- Line of Duty · ACC Derek Hilton, CS Derek Hilton
- Case Histories · Ian Kelso
- Vera · Clive Stringer
- Hope Springs · Gil Cameron
- New Town · Hamish
- No Holds Bard · Struan Robertson
- In the Loop · Jamie McDonald
- The Last Enemy · Professor Lawrence Cooper
- Shell · The Salesman
- Spinners and Losers · Jamie
- A Hartley Story · Hartley
- The Rise of the Nutters · Jamie
- Red Road · Avery
- Low Winter Sun · David Westwood
- The Thick of It · Jamie
- Birthday Girl · Drew
- Murder · Lee Finch
- Beautiful Creatures · Aidan
- Complicity · Andy
- Camere e corridoi · John
- Riot · Gang Member
- Staying Alive · Alan McPherson
- Testimoni silenziosi · Det Sgt Nick Wallace
- The Negotiator · Det. Sergeant Andrew Coyne
- Le cinque vite di Hector · Soldier
- Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love · Writer
- Rik Mayall Presents · Writer
- I Simpson · Hamish (Voce)
- Tumbledown · Saltemarsh
- A Wholly Healthy Glasgow · Murdo Caldwell
- The Play on One · Murdo Caldwell
- A Very Peculiar Practice · Adie Shaw