Anthony Robert McMillan, known professionally as Robbie Coltrane, was a Scottish actor and comedian.
29 Facts About Robbie Coltrane
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Robbie Coltrane gained worldwide recognition in the 2000s for playing Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series.
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Robbie Coltrane was appointed an OBE in the 2006 New Year Honours by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama.
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Robbie Coltrane started his career appearing alongside Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, and Emma Thompson in the sketch series Alfresco.
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Robbie Coltrane then gained national prominence starring as criminal psychologist Dr Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald in the ITV television series Cracker, a role which saw him receive the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in three consecutive years from 1994 to 1996.
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In 2006, Robbie Coltrane came eleventh in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars, voted by the public.
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Robbie Coltrane appeared in the films Mona Lisa and Nuns on the Run and as Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in the James Bond films GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough.
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Robbie Coltrane appeared in the films Henry V, Let It Ride, Danny, the Champion of the World, Ocean's Twelve, The Brothers Bloom, Great Expectations, and Effie Gray, and provided voice acting roles in the animated films The Tale of Despereaux and Brave.
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Robbie Coltrane was born Anthony Robert McMillan on 30 March 1950 in Rutherglen, Scotland, the son of Jean Ross Howie, a teacher and pianist, and Ian Baxter McMillan, a GP who served as a forensic police surgeon.
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Robbie Coltrane had an older sister, Annie, and a younger sister, Jane.
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Robbie Coltrane started his education at Belmont House School in Newton Mearns before moving to Glenalmond College, an independent school in Perthshire.
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Robbie Coltrane studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art.
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Robbie Coltrane moved into acting in his early twenties, adopting the stage name Robbie Coltrane and working in theatre and comedy.
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Robbie Coltrane appeared in the first stage production of John Byrne's The Slab Boys, at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.
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Robbie Coltrane moved into roles in films such as Flash Gordon, Death Watch, Balham, Gateway to the South, Scrubbers, Krull, The Supergrass, Defence of the Realm, Absolute Beginners, Mona Lisa, and appeared as "Annabelle" in The Fruit Machine.
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Robbie Coltrane co-starred with Eric Idle in Nuns on the Run and played the Pope in The Pope Must Die.
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Robbie Coltrane played a would-be private detective obsessed with Humphrey Bogart in the TV film The Bogie Man.
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Robbie Coltrane's roles continued in the 1990s with the TV series Cracker, in which he starred as forensic psychologist Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald.
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Robbie Coltrane presented a number of documentary programmes for the British ITV network based around his twin passions for travel and transportation.
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In 1997, Robbie Coltrane appeared in a series of six programmes under the title Robbie Coltrane's Planes and Automobiles, in which he extolled the virtues of the steam engine, the diesel engine, the supercharger, the V8 engine, the two-stroke engine, and the jet engine.
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Robbie Coltrane single-handedly removed the engine from a Trabant car in 23 minutes.
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Robbie Coltrane voiced characters in several animated films, including The Tale of Despereaux Pixar's Brave, as well as the title roles of Gooby and The Gruffalo.
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Robbie Coltrane was nominated for Best Actor at the 2017 British Academy Television Awards, and won in the category at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards.
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Robbie Coltrane met Rhona Gemmell, a pilates instructor, in the late 1980s.
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Robbie Coltrane said he was in "constant pain all day" in 2016, and, from 2019 onwards, he used a wheelchair.
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Robbie Coltrane died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, Scotland, on 14 October 2022, at the age of 72.
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Robbie Coltrane had been ill for two years prior to his death.
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Robbie Coltrane's death was registered by his ex-wife Rhona Gemmell; the death certificate listed the causes as multiple organ failure complicated by sepsis, a lower respiratory tract infection, and heart block.
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Robbie Coltrane had been diagnosed with obesity and type 2 diabetes.