Paul Higgins (actor)

Paul Higgins
Born	1963 (age 53–54) 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.

Higgins 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 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. Higgins wrote the script to a new musical, The Choir, produced by the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and the Ambassadors Theatre Group in October 2015.

Higgins is married to actress Amelia Bullmore, whom he met in 1992 while co-starring with her in A View from the Bridge in Manchester. They have two daughters. He is vegan.

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