John Michie was born on 25 October 1956 and is a Scottish television and film actor, known for his roles as DI Robbie Ross in the STV detective drama series Taggart, as Karl Munro in Coronation Street from 2011 to 2013 and his role as CEO Guy Self in Casualty and Holby City.
21 Facts About John Michie
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John Michie took a job as a stagehand at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, where his interest in acting started.
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John Michie returned to Kenya when he was 22, beginning his acting career in A Private Matter at the Donovan Maule Theatre, Nairobi in 1980.
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John Michie then had a role in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries in 1994, co-starring with Colin Firth.
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John Michie played a pet shop owner, in the two-part episode "Master of the Moor".
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From 2011 to 2013, John Michie played Karl Munro in Coronation Street.
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John Michie's character was the partner of Stella Price.
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Since leaving Coronation Street, John Michie has played a regular role in hospital drama Holby City, playing Guy Self and while continuing the role in 2014, he has appeared in its sister show Casualty.
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John Michie left Holby City in November 2016 after Guy handed in his resignation but he returned in August 2017.
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In 2022 John Michie played Detective Chief Superintendent Jack Mulgrew in series 3 of the BBC police drama London Kills.
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John Michie is the voice behind Windfall Films' Big, Bigger, Biggest and Monster Moves series for Five.
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John Michie has become increasingly involved in the factual production sector.
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In 1999, Michie starred alongside Richard Harris in To Walk with Lions, a film based on the life of George Adamson which featured Michie back in his childhood home of Kenya playing the wildlife conservationist Tony Fitzjohn.
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John Michie began his acting career on the stage and has appeared in several West End productions.
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John Michie was directed by Wilson twice more in Michael Wall's Women Laughing at the Royal Court Theatre and in Simply Disconnected at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1996.
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John Michie played Danny in Breed, a new play from emerging playwright Lou Ramsden, staged at Theatre503 in 2010.
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In 2008, John Michie publicly backed the Scottish Labour Party in the run up to the Glasgow East by-election.
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John Michie has three children with his partner Carol Fletcher, a former Hot Gossip dancer.
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John Michie is a keen swimmer and player of squash.
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John Michie's nephew is actor Jamie Michie, who has appeared in The IT Crowd, Game of Thrones and alongside John in one episode of Taggart in 2010.
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In September 2017, his 24-year-old daughter, Louella Fletcher-John Michie, died at the Bestival music festival in Dorset after taking the recreational drug 2C-P.