Paul Higgins

Paul Higgins

Nacimiento : , Scotland, UK

Historia

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 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 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 co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland in November 2008.

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Paul Higgins

Películas

Kill
The story centers on three brothers and their violent father who live in a remote forest. ‘The brothers attempt to kill their father while on a hunting expedition but this instead begins a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
Greed
Jim McBride
La fiesta de cumpleaños número 60 de un multimillonario se celebra en un hotel exclusivo en la isla griega de Mykonos.
La fiesta acaba de empezar
Luisaidh's Dad
En mitad de sombrío invierno, la joven Luisaidh (Karen Gillan) comienza a perder el rumbo de su vida afectada por el suicidio de su mejor amigo. Ella intenta curar su desdicha con sexo rutinario, patatas fritas y una enorme predisposición a creer en el poder de la bebida.
El apóstol
Frank
Thomas Richardson llega de incógnito a una isla idílica con la intención de salvar a su hermana de la misteriosa secta que la ha secuestrado. Allí, encontrará una sociedad que tiene sus propias reglas y un secreto terrible. Tras revolucionar el cine de acción con The Raid, Gareth Evans traslada su mirada al Reino Unido de principios del siglo XX.
La Reina Victoria y Abdul
Dr. James Reid
Abdul Karim, conocido como 'El Munshi', se convirtió en siervo de la reina Victoria en el año 1887. Después de que el joven se ganase el afecto de la monarca, terminó siendo su secretario personal y confidente durante los últimos años de vida de la reina, algo que no fue bien recibido dentro de la Casa Real.
Couple in a Hole
John
A middle-aged couple who have renounced civilization to live in a cave in the woods are befriended by a local farmer with mysterious ulterior motives.
Hangar 10
Producer
33 years after the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, three metal detector enthusiasts hunting for Saxon gold in the same region, capture incredible footage of UFO's whilst filming their expedition. As night falls and with their navigation equipment failing, they find themselves facing a terrifying encounter with an unforgiving alien presence.
Lawless
Simon Harding
From the cells in the basement to the judge's chambers, Lawless offers a backstage pass to the inner workings of a modern court. Suranne Jones stars as a brand new judge battling to keep her head above the water in the murky depths of the justice system.
New Town
Hamish
Starry architects Purves and Pekkala are offered the chance to redesign a Georgian church, but when the head of Scottish Heritage falls from the church tower in a mysterious accident, it becomes a question of whether he fell or was pushed.
In the loop
Jamie McDonald
Todo empieza cuando el presidente de los Estados Unidos y el primer ministro británico deciden iniciar una guerra. No todo el mundo cree que sea una buena idea. Pero cuando Simon Foster, el secretario de Estado británico, respalda accidentalmente la guerra en horario de máxima audiencia en la televisión, se gana sin quererlo muchos amigos en Washington DC.
Shell
The Salesman
A roadside movie about a teenage girl who feels trapped by her life in a remote petrol station in the Scottish Highlands.
Spinners and Losers
Jamie
Peter Mannion's speech on immigration, leaking the PM's policy, did not have the effect Tucker desired and now the PM is resigning, leaving the way clear for the Nutters and their leader Tom. Ollie has been promised a job by young Nutter Ben Swain, Tucker's assistant has encouraged Hugh's predecessor Cliff to stand as a stalking horse and Glenn is keen to keep Hugh in the frame whilst his boss is in Australia. Fortunately Tom has a dark secret which is just what Tucker is looking for but will it be enough?
The Rise of the Nutters
Jamie
With Hugh in Australia and Glenn in Wales, Ollie is left in charge, feeding policies to junior minister Ben Swain. He is one of the 'Nutters', the group keen to take power when the P.M. resigns and keen to make a name for himself - which he does in the wrong sense when Jeremy Paxman skewers him on 'Newsnight'. This is music to Tucker's ears as it is in his interest for the P.M. to remain in power for as long as he can. Ollie's new girlfriend Emma is working for Shadow Minister Peter Mannion and hopes to impress by stealing one of Ollie's idea for use on their immigration policy though things do not go fully to plan.
Red Road
Avery
Jackie is a CCTV operator. Each day, she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.
Low Winter Sun
David Westwood
Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.
Birthday Girl
Drew
A woman decides to celebrate her recovery from leukaemia by throwing a party. But before the big night, she discovers that the illness has returned. She decides to postpone telling everyone until the aprty is over, but during the evening she discovers that she is not the only one with a secret.
Murder
Lee Finch
Chris Maurer is killed the day after his 21st birthday and his grieving mother, Angela Maurer, is unable to come to grips with that fact. She is taken advantage of by a self-interested journalist who only cares about getting a front-page story and she is completely dissatisfied with the way the police are handling the case. A local shopkeeper tries to help her through these trying times, but to no avail. The police arrest Chris' friend Ryan McGuinness, after they learn Chris may have spent the night with Ryan's girlfriend but Chris also had a testy relationship with his brother-in-law. The Good Samaritan who found Chris bloodied and beaten on the sidewalk agrees to participate in a reconstruction of the crime. In the end, a simple slip of the tongue reveals the identity of the killer and then the motive for the murder.
Criaturas hermosas
Aidan
Glasgow, Escocia. Tras discutir con Tony, su novio, Dorothy decide dejar la ciudad con su perro y ve cómo Brian maltrata a su novia, Petula. Cuando interviene en ayuda de Petula, mata accidentalmente a Brian. A partir de ese momento, tendrán que aliarse para esquivar a la ley, a Tony y al hermano de Brian.
Complicity
Andy
Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.
Ni en tu casa, ni en la mía
John
At the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some upsets by declaring his attraction to one of its members.
Riot
Gang Member
An heiress is kidnapped during the chaos of a riot.
Un hombre perdido en el tiempo
Soldier
Narra diferentes historias basadas en la búsqueda por parte del hombre, a través de diferentes vidas (un hombre de las cavernas, un esclavo, un guerrero, un explorador y un hombre moderno divorciado) a lo largo de la historia, del coraje, del amor, la felicidad y el progreso.
Tumbledown
Saltemarsh
Basada en la historia real del Teniente Robert Lawrence M.C., ex oficial del ejército británico, que peleó y fue gravemente herido en la guerra de Las Malvinas en la batalla de Tumbledown Hill en Junio de 1982. El relato de sus experiencias durante y después de la guerra fue luego adaptado para esta controversial película. También co-escribió con su padre John Lawrence el libro “Después de la batalla Tumbledown”.
A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
Murdo Caldwell
A fresh-faced gym instructor, Murdo Caldwell, threatens the cosy lifestyle established in the seedy Adonis Health Club in Glasgow, where, up until now, sex ‘n’ sleaze have been the order of the day. Charley and Donald, who have established a comfortable living at the club, plot to get rid of Murdo and his ideals of creating “a wholly healthy Glasgow… a city of perfectly proportioned sinuous but not over-developed physiques.... a city of non-smoking non-drinking joggers ... a city of reposeful but alert minds.' But who will win the battle of minds rather than bodies?