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 spinoff featurelength film In the Loop In 2009 he appeared as Gil Cameron on the BBC drama Hope Springs He played Michael Dugdale in Channel 4s 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 coproduction with the National Theatre of Scotland in November 2008