Paul Higgins
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.
Apostle
as FrankIn 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped...
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Greed
as Jim McBrideA retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek...
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Red Road
as AveryJackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never...
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Victoria & Abdul
as Dr. James ReidQueen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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Kill
as DonThe story centres on three brothers and their violent father who live in a remote forest. The...
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The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East,...
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Being Human
as SoldierOne man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
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Beautiful Creatures
as AidanWhen Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a...
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The Party's Just Beginning
as Luisaidh's DadIn a bleak Inverness midwinter, Luisaidh is careening off the rails after the suicide of her...
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Tumbledown
as SaltemarshThe film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during...
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Bedrooms and Hallways
as JohnAt the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some...
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Riot
as Gang MemberAn heiress is kidnapped during the chaos of a riot on Christmas Eve.
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Complicity
as AndyLocal journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the...
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No Holds Bard
as Struan RobertsonComedy following the lives of five people as they prepare to vie for the 2009 Cup O'Kindness,...
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Low Winter Sun
as David WestwoodFrank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the...
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The Rise of the Nutters
as JamieWith Hugh in Australia and Glenn in Wales, Ollie is left in charge, feeding policies to junior...
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Couple in a Hole
as JohnA middle-aged couple who have renounced civilization to live in a cave in the woods are...
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Spinners and Losers
as JamiePeter Mannion's speech on immigration, leaking the PM's policy, did not have the effect Tucker...
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Lawless
as Simon HardingIt's Lila Pettitt's first day as the youngest female judge the British court system's ever seen....
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The Negotiator
as Det. Sergeant Andrew CoyneA serious heart condition puts an end to Charlie King's job as a "street copper", but he refuses...
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Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
as WriterMickey Love is an aging television quiz show host who after climbing his way back to the top...
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Charlie Cloudhead
as CharlieA tragic comedy drama about a man who bottles up his problems into a cloud floating above his...
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New Town
as HamishStarry architects Purves and Pekkala are offered the chance to redesign a Georgian church, but...
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Birthday Girl
as DrewA woman decides to celebrate her recovery from leukaemia by throwing a party. But before the big...
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A Hartley Story
as HartleyA short film about an agoraphobic poet who lives all alone with his loving goldfish, when a...
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The Simpsons
as Hamish (voice)Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday...
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Silent Witness
as Det Sgt Nick WallaceSilent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology...
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Vera
as Clive StringerA sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England,...
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Slow Horses
as Struan LoyFollow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson...
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Line of Duty
as ACC Derek HiltonA drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
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The Thick of It
as JamieSet in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed...
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Utopia
as Michael DugdaleThe Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of...
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The Last Enemy
as Professor Lawrence CooperStephen Ezard's search for the truth about the death of his brother Michael catapults him into...
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The Wrong Mans
as PC HennessyComedy thriller about two well-meaning idiots who become entangled in a hideous world of crime,...
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Case Histories
as Ian KelsoCase Histories is a British drama television series based on the Jackson Brodie detective novels...
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Murder
as Lee FinchJulie Walters stars as a mother dealing with the impact of the sudden murder of her 21 year old...
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Raised by Wolves
as Sean GarrySet on a Wolverhampton council estate, Raised By Wolves is modern day reimagining of the...
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The Ipcress File
as MinisterAs the Cold War rages, ex-smuggler turned reluctant spy Harry Palmer finds himself at the centre...
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Rik Mayall Presents
as WriterShowcasing the talent and versatility of its star, Rik Mayall Presents comprises six episodes of...
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Hope Springs
as Gil CameronEllie finds herself in hiding in a remote Scottish village called Hope Springs along with fellow...
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