Name	John Michie
Height
Naionality	Scottish
Date of Birth	25-October-1956
Place of Birth	Burma
Famous for	Acting

John Michie is a Burmese born Scottish television and film actor, best known for his role as DI Robbie Ross in the ITV detective drama series Taggart. He is currently playing Karl Munro in Coronation Street.

Following guest appearing on television programmes such as Casualty (TV series), Lovejoy, Poirot, and Bugs, Michie’s first starring role came in BBC series Moon And Son. Alongside That Was The Week That Was star Millicent Martin, the pair played a couple of clairvoyants who travelled between France and the United Kingdom solving crimes and getting into various adventures. Michie then headed up north to Yorkshire in 1996 to appear in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries – Master of the Moor with Colin Firth and ITV1's Heartbeat as well as star in The Bare Necessities (TV play), the story of a group of ex-miners who stumble across a new career as strippers.

He also had an early appearance in Taggart in 1990, as character Robby Meiklejohn in an episode called Love Knot. Michie was a regular in the first series of ITV’s London Bridge in 1996 before taking up his regular part in Taggart in 1998 playing DI Robbie Ross, a dedicated detective not afraid to go about things his own way and fly in the face of authority when he needs to. Despite his ongoing commitment to Taggart, Michie also appeared in an episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) in 2001, as well as an episode of Wire in the Blood in 2002. Michie now plays Karl Munro in Coronation Street. His character is the partner of Stella Price, the manager of the Rovers Return, played by former EastEnders actress Michelle Collins.

Michie’s first film role was in the 1989 film Conquest of the South Pole but his first leading role came in the film adaptation, Monk Dawson in 1998. Based on the Piers Paul Read novel, it gained a good reception from the critics despite only a short run at the UK box office. Michie played the character David Baird in John Madden’s 1996 film Truth or Dare starring Helen Baxendale and John Hannah. In 1999 John starred alongside Richard Harris in To Walk with Lions, a film based on the life of George Adamson. This sees Michie back in his childhood home of Kenya playing the wildlife conservationist Tony Fitzjohn.