[1] At the age of nineteen, he worked his passage to Australia on a cargo ship, where he spent a year as a jackaroo herding cattle before returning to Scotland.
In 1998, he was given a regular part in Taggart, 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.
[citation needed] In 2022 Michie played Detective Chief Superintendent Jack Mulgrew in series 3 of the BBC police drama London Kills.
[3] Michie is the voice behind Windfall Films' Big, Bigger, Biggest and Monster Moves series for Five (TV channel).
Big, Bigger, Biggest explores the engineering marvel of large buildings and sky scrapers,[4] while Monster Moves documents the most daring and dangerous relocation projects ever attempted.
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.
However it later emerged Michie, in a report for the BBC's This Week programme the previous year, appeared to back Scottish independence, which the Labour Party officially opposes.
[10] In August 2014, Michie was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.
Her 28-year-old friend, Ceon Broughton – who had videoed her over a period of six hours hallucinating and begging for help, and failed to take her to the festival hospital tent only 400 metres away – was subsequently arrested on suspicion of murder and questioned by police.
[14] On 28 February 2019, he was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence, as well as supplying a Class A drug, and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.