Paul Higgins (actor)

Paul Higgins (born in Lanarkshire, 1964) is a Scottish actor. He has appeared onstage in Paul, Black Watch and in the film Complicity. He played the character Alan in "Staying Alive", a hospital drama on ITV, which also starred Sophie Okonedo and Jessica Hynes. He has also played the character Jamie McDonald, a press officer, in the BBC television programme The Thick of It and its spin-off feature length film, In The Loop. He wrote a play titled "Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us" which was performed at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in November 2008. In 2009 he appeared playing Gil Cameron on the BBC One TV Drama Hope Springs.

He was brought up 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.

He is married to English actress Amelia Bullmore, whom he met in 1992 while co-starring in A View from the Bridge in Manchester. The couple have two daughters.

List of credits

Film credits

Year	Title	Role	Awards and nominations
1992	Creatures of Light	Fionn
1994	Being Human	Soldier
1998	Bedrooms and Hallways	John
2000	Complicity	Andy
2000	Beautiful Creatures	Aidan
2006	Red Road	Avery
2007	Shell (short)	The Salesman
2009	In The Loop	Jamie McDonald	Chlotrudis Award for Best Cast
2009	No Holds Bard	Struan Robertson

Television credits

Year	Title	Role	Awards and nominations
1987	A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
1988	Tumbledown	Saltemarsh
1988	A Very Peculiar Practice	Adie Shaw
1986/1990	Taggart	Alastair Finn/David Crawford
1990	Boon	Simon
1991	Clarissa	Preacher
1992	Between The Lines	David Ray
1993	Micky Love	Writer
1994	The Negotiator
1996	Staying Alive	Alan
1996	Doctor Finlay	Danny Gallagher
1996	Dangerfield	Glenn Jones
2002	Murder	Lee Finch
2002	Birthday Girl	Drew
2002	Beating Jesus
2006	Low Winter Sun	David Westwood
2005–2007	The Thick of It	Jamie
2008	The Last Enemy	Professor Lawrence Cooper
2008	Silent Witness	Det Sgt Nick Wallace
2009	New Town	Hamish Glennie
2009	Hope Springs	Gil Cameron
2011	Vera	Clive
2012	Line of Duty	Derek Hilton
2013	Utopia	Michael Dugdale
2013	Case Histories	Ian Kelso
2013	The Wrong Mans	PC Hennessy

Theatre credits

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Awards and nominations
1992	A View from the Bridge	Rodolpho	Royal Exchange Theatre
1994	The Lady from the Sea		Lyric Hammersmith/West Yorkshire Playhouse
1994	The Slab Boys Trilogy	Phil McCann	Young Vic
1995	Macbeth	Macbeth	English Touring Theatre
1998	An Enemy of the People		Royal National Theatre
2000	The Way of the World	Fainall	Royal Exchange Theatre
2000	Conversations After a Burial	Alex	Almeida Theatre
2001	Buried Alive	Stuart	Hampstead Theatre
2002	Nightsongs	The Young Man	Royal Court Theatre
2002	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Oberon	The Globe Theatre
2002	The Golden Ass	Bellepheron/Thrasillus	The Globe Theatre
2003	Measure for Measure	The Duke	Royal Shakespeare Company
2005	Macbeth	Macduff	Almeida Theatre
2005	The Cosmonaut's Last Message	Oleg	Donmar Warehouse
2006	Paul	James	Royal National Theatre
2006	Black Watch	Writer/Sergeant	National Theatre of Scotland
2006	The Tempest	Prospero	Tron Theatre
2007	Damascus	Paul	Traverse Theatre/Tricycle Theatre/Middle East Tour
2010	The White Guard	Viktor	Royal National Theatre
2010	Caledonia	William Paterson	National Theatre of Scotland
2011	Luise Miller	Miller	Donmar Warehouse
2012	King Lear	Earl of Kent	Citizens Theatre Glasgow
2013	Children of the Sun	Boris	National Theatre

Voice and radio credits

Year	Title	Role	Format	Awards and nominations
	Glasgow Airport	Voice Over	Commercial
	Scottish Office: Domestic Abuse	Voice Over	Commercial
	Artworks	Narrator	BBC2 Documentary
	Complete Burns: Robert Burns Poems	Narrator	BBC Scotland (Online)
2007	Black Watch	Writer/Sergeant	BBC Radio 3
2008	The Mayor of Casterbridge	Donald Farfrae	BBC Radio 4
2009	Boswell's Life of Johnson	James Boswell	BBC Radio 4
2010	The Seagull	Trigorin	BBC Radio 3

External links

• Paul Higgins at IMDb