Robbie Coltrane Biography

Stocky Scottish comic actor Robbie Coltrane was trained as an artist in Glasgow. During the 1970s, he rose to prominence as an improvisational nightclub comedian, usually working in ensemble groups (one of his partners was actress Emma Thompson). During the '80s, he was in a number of British features and made-for-TV movies. A regular at London's Comic Strip comedy club, he had a habit of appearing as himself in comedy specials like Secret Policeman's Third Ball. He also showed up in small comedic cameos in National Lampoon's European Vacation and Kenneth Branagh's Henry V. Though he was popular in the U.K. on TV shows like Alfresco, Tutti Fruitti, Black Adder, and The Young Ones, he wasn't widely known in the U.S. until his antic performance in Nuns on the Run with Eric Idle. He then starred as the title character in the satiric comedy The Pope Must Die (released in the U.S. as The Pope Must Diet). In 1993, he starred in the British TV detective series Cracker as Fitz, a nervous forensic psychologist who helps crack cases. He won a BAFTA TV award for the role, and he won a Cable ACE award when it was rebroadcast in the U.S. on A&E. When the show ended, he briefly joined up with the James Bond film series as Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough. In the late '90s, he starred in a few independent films (Montana, Frogs for Snakes) and played Sgt. Peter Goldy in the Hughes brothers' thriller From Hell. However, he's been most successful in the area of family entertainment. He was delightful as the con man in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with Elijah Wood; he was Tweedledum to George Wendt's Tweedledee in Alice in Wonderland; and he found a fine place for himself as Hagrid the Giant in the Harry Potter film series. In 2002, he earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination from the British Academy for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. In 2003, he returned to British TV to play lawyer Jack Lennox in The Planman. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

• 1. Hagrid: Who told you about Fluffy?
  2. Ron Weasley: Fluffy?
  3. Hermione Granger: That thing has a name?
  From Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Submitted by Austin R (17 days ago)

• 1. Rubeus Hagrid: [Harry comes to face death] Harry, no, what'r you doin' here!
  From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. Submitted by Lucas M (33 days ago)

• 1. Hagrid: You're a wizard, Harry.
  From Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Submitted by Lucas M (52 days ago)

• 1. Rubeus Hagrid: Seriously misunderstood creatures, spiders are. It's the eyes I reckon, they unnerve some people.
  2. Harry Potter: Not to mention the pincers [makes clicking sound and imitates fangs]
  3. Rubeus Hagrid: Yeah, that too I reckon...[ makes strange face]
  From Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Submitted by Katerina K (3 months ago)

• 1. Hagrid: You're a wizard Harry
  2. Harry Potter: I'm a what?
  From Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Submitted by Javis C (10 months ago)

• 1. Harry Potter: I can't be a wizard, I'm just Harry!
  2. Hagrid: Well Just Harry...
  From Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Submitted by Eduardo M (10 months ago)

• 1. Rubeus Hagrid: It's changing out there. Just like last time. There's a storm coming, Harry. And we all best be ready when she does.
  From Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)

• 1. Hagrid: What are you doing here? Get outta my house.
  2. Lucius Malfoy: Believe me, I take absolutely no pleasure being inside your, [looks around, disgusted] you call this a house?
  From Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)

• 1. Hagrid: You're a wizard, Harry!
  2. Harry Potter: I'm a what?
  From Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

• 1. Horace Slughorn: But i suppose thats the way life goes on.You have something now and then it suddenly goes... poof!
  2. Rubeus Hagrid: Poof!
  3. Harry Potter: Poof...
  From Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Submitted by David C (13 months ago)

• 1. Hagrid: Your a wizard, Harry
  From Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Submitted by Tyler C (13 months ago)