Doughty won the Best Actor award at the Palm Beach International Film Festival in 2005 for his performance in The Aryan Couple.
Doughty married Actress Caroline Carver in 2006. He is an avid Manchester United FC fan.
Doughty completed a UK tour of Simon Beaufoy's stage play The Full Monty in 2013. The play, in which Doughty played Gaz, was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2014.
He is currently playing new regular DS Aiden Healy opposite Brenda Blethyn in ITV's Vera. Following this he will star opposite Sheridan Smith in ITV's Black Work, expected to air mid 2015.
