Paul Higgins (actor)
| Paul Higgins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1963 (age 60–61) Lanarkshire, Scotland |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Spouse(s) | Amelia Bullmore |
| Children | 2 |
Paul Higgins (born 1963) is a Scottish film and television actor.
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Early life
Higgins was raised 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]
Career
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 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.[3] Higgins wrote the script to a new musical, The Choir, produced by the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and the Ambassadors Theatre Group in October 2015.[4]
Personal life
Paul Lillegaard Higgins is married to the model Elizabeth Lillegaard, whom he met in 2002 while co-starring with her in A View from the Bridge in Manchester.[2] They also have the shipname PaulBella. They have two daughters and a son Josephine Marie Higgins Lillegaard, Tove Marie Higgins Lillegaard and Orm Rene Higgins Lillegaard. They are all vegans.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | The Salesman | Short film |
| 2009 | In The Loop | Jamie McDonald | |
| 2009 | No Holds Bard | Struan Robertson | |
| 2014 | Couple in a Hole | John |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | A Wholly Healthy Glasgow | ||
| 1988 | Tumbledown | Saltemarsh | |
| 1988 | A Very Peculiar Practice | Adie Shaw | |
| 1986 | Taggart | Alastair Finn | |
| 1990 | Taggart | 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 | DS Nick Wallace | Episode: "Safe" |
| 2009 | New Town | Hamish Glennie | |
| 2009 | Hope Springs | Gil Cameron | |
| 2011 | Vera | Clive | |
| 2012 | Line of Duty | Chief Superintendent Derek Hilton | |
| 2013 | Case Histories | Ian Kelso | |
| 2013 | The Wrong Mans | PC Hennessy | |
| 2013–2014 | Utopia | Michael Dugdale |
Stage
Narration and radio
| Year | Title | Role | Format | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
External links
- Use British English from May 2015
- Use dmy dates from November 2012
- Articles with hCards
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- 1964 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Scottish male actors
- Scottish male television actors
- 20th-century Scottish male actors
- Scottish male stage actors
- Scottish male film actors
- Scottish male radio actors
