[6][7] Higson appeared as a new regular character, Maxine Donnelly, in Series 6 and 7 of the Channel 4 comedy drama, Shameless from January 2009 to 2010.
[2] Higson then appeared in the Jimmy McGovern BBC1 Drama Accused broadcast in November 2010,[2] playing the young daughter of Christopher Eccleston's character, Willy, whose single chance encounter with a money launderer leads to a slippery criminal downfall for and his family and him.
She played the character Rachel Reid, a troubled and fragile alcoholic, in one episode of Series 14 of the long-running BBC medical drama Holby City broadcast on 29 December 2011.
Among her theatrical roles, in 2008 Higson appeared in two plays, Road and Spring and Port Wine, at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton.
[1] In 2015, Higson played Dee in Richard Harris' The Business of Murder produced by the Middle Ground Theatre Company which toured the UK.