Robbie Coltrane
- Born: 31 Mar, 1950
Although an accomplished comedian and comic actor, Robbie Coltrane has also delivered a number of superlative dramatic parts, perhaps none more so than his starring turn as the excessive and obsessive forensic psychologist "Cracker" in the 1990s British TV series. While some may also recall him as Russian gangster Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in the James Bond films "GoldenEye" (1995) and "The World Is Not Enough" (1999), the tall (6'3"), burly (in excess of 250 pounds) actor won legions of new fans of all ages when he appeared as the combative but sweet-natured gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid in the film adaptation of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (2001).
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father Ian McMillan: was a general practitioner; also served as a police surgeon; died of lung cancer when Coltrane was in his teens
- mother Jean McMillan:
- sister Annie McMillan: older
- sister Jane McMillan: younger; died of an overdose at age 21 in 1976; was attending York University at the time
- son Spencer Coltrane: born c. 1993; named after Spencer Tracy; has bit role in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"; mother, Rhona Gemmell
- daughter Alice Coltrane: mother, Rhona Gemmell
- Robin Paine: together from 1972 to 1987
- wife Rhona Gemmell: born c. 1969; met on Christmas Eve 1988; together from 1989; married on December 11, 1999; mother of Coltrane's two children
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