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John Michie

John Michie

“The funding helps us continue.”

“I’m delighted to support the Scottish Wildlife Trust. The organisation does a fantastic job to preserve Scotland’s wildlife - and the funding from People’s Postcode Lottery will help continue this important work.”

Best known as DI Robbie Ross from TV’s Taggart, John Michie is proud to be People’s Postcode Lottery Ambassador for Scottish Wildlife Trust.

Although he was born in Burma, John was brought up in Edinburgh – and his Scottish upbringing has left him with a lasting love of the country’s magnificent wildlife.

As a family man with two daughters and a son, he feels the Trust’s work of protecting Scotland’s wild creatures for future generations is particularly vital – and he knows the support of People’s Postcode Lottery will help them achieve this aim.

John Michie
Scottish Wildlife Trust Ambassador for People’s Postcode Lottery

Biography

John Michie is a British television and film actor, best known for his role as DI Robbie Ross on the Scottish detective television series Taggart.

John was born in Burma, and raised in Kenya and Edinburgh. At the age of 19 he traveled to Australia where he worked various odd jobs. Returning to Scotland two years later, he took a job as a stage hand at the Traverse Theatre, where his interest in acting started. His first film role was a bit part in the 1984 film, A Passage to India. He followed it up with several guest appearances on television series such as Casualty, Lovejoy, Poirot, and Bugs.

He starred in Taggart eight years before he joined full time as DI Robbie Ross. In 1990, he played the character of Robby Meiklejohn in the Taggart episode called Love Knot. He was cast as the lead in the film adaptation of the Piers Paul Read novel, Monk Dawson and began working on the series Taggart both in 1998. In 1999, he starred along side Richard Harris in To Walk with Lions. John also starred in the classic but short lived BBC series Moon And Son.