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Robbie Coltrane
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The people who are involved in the development of making films and television are not necessarily the most imaginative of people, to be honest. Well, they're not!
— Robbie Coltrane: 'I take no nonsense' (9 November 2012)
Robbie Coltrane
Scottish actor (1950–2022)
- Audience176
- Fame66.5
- Momentum0.0
Source-basedStable
176 youtube followers
- Audience176
- Fame66.5
- Momentum0.0
- United Kingdom rank#250
- Actors rank#152
- Wikipedia87.2K
Lived 1950–2022, aged 72United Kingdom
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Updated 2026-06-09
He played the half-giant gamekeeper who became a generation's gateway into Hogwarts, but before Harry Potter made him a global fixture, Coltrane owned British television as Fitz — the rumpled, brilliant psychologist in Cracker who won him three consecutive BAFTAs, a feat matched by only one other actor.
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Anthony Robin McMillan took the stage name Robbie Coltrane and cut his teeth in British sketch comedy alongside Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, and Emma Thompson in Alfresco and The Comic Strip. His 1987 turn in the BBC miniseries Tutti Frutti earned his first BAFTA nomination, but it was Cracker — the ITV crime drama where he starred as criminal psychologist Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald from 1993 to 1996 — that made him a national figure and brought him the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor three years running. From 2001 to 2011, he became Rubeus Hagrid across all eight Harry Potter films, a rol…
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- British Academy Scotland Awards
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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