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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.[1] As a teenager he trained to be a priest but gave his training up aged 17 when he began dating.[2]
He is married to English actress Amelia Bullmore, whom he met in 1992 while co-starring in A View from the Bridge in Manchester.[2] 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
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 |
References
- ^ English, Paul (27 November 2008). "Paul Higgins: Priesthood just wasn't for me - so I chose acting". Daily Record. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
- ^ a b Higgins, Paul (15 August 2007). "Stuart Jeffries meets The Thick Of It actor Paul Higgins". The Guardian. London.
External links
- Paul Higgins at IMDb