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Robbie Coltrane (birth name Robert
MacMillan, some sources say Anthony MacMillan) (born March 30, 1950) is
a Scottish actor.
He was born in Rutherglen, South
Lanarkshire and educated (sporadically) at Glenalmond School in
Perthshire, Glasgow School of Art, and the Moray House College Of
Education in Edinburgh. He 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.
His comic skills brought him roles in the
television series The Comic Strip Presents (1982) and he was one of the
stars of Laugh? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee (1984). He soon moved into
films, obtaining small roles in a number of movies such as Death Watch
(1980), Scrubbers (1983), Absolute Beginners (1986) and Mona Lisa
(1986). 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.
He 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) 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), as well as
half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
(2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and
the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
(2005).
Coltrane lives near Glasgow, is married and
has two children, and collects vintage cars.
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