| Robbie Coltrane, Scottish film and television actor, was born in Scotland in 1950. The son of a teacher/pianist mother and a GP father, he is the grandson of Scottish industrialist Thomas W Howie.
Robbie Coltrane was born Anthony Robert McMillan but took up the stage name Coltrane in tribute to legendary jazz saxophonist John Coltrane when he began his acting career whilst in his early twenties. He has gone on to become one of Scotland's most successful actors and comedy performers, and one of Great Britain's best-loved film and television stars.
A collector of vintage cars, Robbie Coltrane's television and film credits include Tutti Frutti, Blackadder the Third, Nuns on the Run with Eric Idle, and of course Cracker, the highly successful 1990s TV series in which he played a criminal psychologist with antihero tendancies.
More recently, Robbie Coltrane has become a mainstay of the Harry Potter films, starring in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and in 2007,
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. |
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