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Robbie Coltrane, OBE (born Anthony Robert McMillan on March 30, 1950) is a Scottish actor.

Biography

Early life

Coltrane was born in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire to a doctor father. He was educated at Glenalmond College, in Perth and Kinross, Glasgow School of Art, and the Moray House College Of Education in Edinburgh.

Career

Coltrane moved into acting in his early twenties, taking the stage name Coltrane (in tribute to jazz saxophonist John Coltrane) and working in theatre and stand-up comedy. Appearing in the 1981 BBC television comedy series A Kick Up the Eighties, his comic skills also brought him roles in the The Comic Strip Presents (1982) series and he was one of the stars of Laugh? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee (1984).

Coltrane soon moved into films, obtaining roles in a number of movies such as Death Watch (1980), Scrubbers (1983), Krull (1983), Absolute Beginners (1986), Mona Lisa (1986) and appeared as "Annabelle" in The Fruit Machine (1988). On television, he also appeared in Tutti Frutti (1987), as Samuel Johnson in Blackadder (1987) (a role he later reprised in the more serious Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands (1993)), and in a number of stand-up and sketch comedy shows.

Coltrane co-starred with Eric Idle in Nuns on the Run (1990), and played the Pope in The Pope Must Die (1991). He also played a would-be private detective obsessed with Humphrey Bogart in the TV play The Bogie Man. His roles went from strength to strength in the 1990s with the TV series Cracker (1993-1996, 2006 one-off special) and a BAFTA award as the stepping stone to parts in bigger films such as the James Bond films GoldenEye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999) and a major supporting role in From Hell (2001) as well as half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter films (2001-present).

Personal life

Coltrane lives in Stirlingshire. He is currently separated from his wife, with whom he fathered two children, Spencer and Alice. He collects vintage cars.

Filmography

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) (filming) - Rubeus Hagrid
• Stormbreaker (2006) (post-production) - Prime Minister
• Cracker: Nine Eleven (2006) (TV) - Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald
• Provoked (2006) - Lord Edward Foster
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) - Rubeus Hagrid
• Ocean's Twelve (2004) .... Matsui
• Pride (2004) (TV) (voice) .... James
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) - Rubeus Hagrid
• Van Helsing (2004) .... Mr. Hyde
• The Planman (2003) (TV) .... Jack Lennox QC
• Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do (2003) (TV) .... Hagrid
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) .... Rubeus Hagrid
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Sorcerer's Stone in US) (2001) .... Rubeus Hagrid
• On the Nose (2001) .... Delaney
• From Hell (2001) .... Sergeant Peter Godley
• The World Is Not Enough (1999) .... Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky
• Alice in Wonderland (1999) (TV) .... Ned Tweedledum
• Message in a Bottle (1999) .... Charlie Toschi
• The Ebb-Tide (1998) (TV) .... Capt. Chisholm
• Frogs for Snakes (1998) .... Al
• Montana (1998) .... The Boss
• Buddy (1997) .... Dr. Bill Lintz
• GoldenEye (1995) .... Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky
• Cracker (1993-1996) (TV) - Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald
• Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles (1993) .... Dr. Samuel Johnson
• Oh, What a Night (1992) .... Todd
• The Pope Must Die (1991) .... The Pope
• Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole (1991) .... Steffano Baccardi
• Midnight Breaks (1990) .... Fat
• Nuns on the Run (1990) .... Charlie McManus/Sister Inviolata
• Perfectly Normal (1990) .... Alonzo Turner
• Henry V) .... Falstaff
• The Fruit Machine (1988), a/k/a Wonderland (USA), .... Annabelle
• Eat the Rich (1987) .... Jeremy

Trivia

• He was voted #10 in ITV's "TV's 50 Greatest Stars"
• He was voted #6 in a poll of 2000 adults across the UK to find the 'most famous Scot', behind the Loch Ness Monster, Robert Burns, Sean Connery, Robert the Bruce and William Wallace
• He is the great-grandson of Scottish businessman Thomas W. Howie

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