Bio data of Robbie Coltrane

Robbie Coltrane

Date of Birth: 30 March 1950 , Rutherglen, Scotland, UK

Birth Name: Anthony Robert McMillan

Nicknames: JT

Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m)

Robbie Coltrane, one of Britain's the majority popular comedians who was head of debating civilization at school and won prizes for his art, is now a film star who played in two James Bond films and in the "Harry Potter" franchise.

He was born Anthony Robert Mc Millan on March 30, 1950, in Rutherglen, a community of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. His father, Ian McMillan, was a universal surgeon who also worked for police pathology. His mother, Jean, was a teacher and a pianist. Young Robbie loved of art, music, films and cars. He was a insatiable reader of his dad's books on medicine and crime. At age 12 he made his drama debut on stage at Glen-almond College, delivering rants from "Henry V". At that time he was enthralled with Marlon Brando and Orson Welles.

He attended Glasgow Art School, majoring in drawing, picture and film, then deliberate art at Edinburgh's Moray House College of Education for a year. In 1973 he completes a documentary titled "Young Mental Health", which was chosen Film of the Year by the Scottish Education Council. At that time Robbie took the name Coltrane, due to his love of jazz, and began a career of a stand-up comic at night clubs, at the Edinburgh Festival, as well as an actor with Edinburgh's famous Traverse Theatre.

In 1980 Coltrane made his first appearance on television as "Border Guard" in BBC's mini-series The Lost Tribe (1980), then complete his big screen first appearance as a limousine driver in Death Watch(1980). In 1981 he appeared in his first most significant role as Detective Fritz Langley in Subway Riders (1981), by well-known subversive director Amos Poe.

He became a well-known face from side to side appearances in The Comic Strip series, then in Alfresco (1983) and Comic narrow piece cinema The Supergrass (1985) and The Pope Must Diet(1991), in the middle of other movies. At that time Coltrane had a drinking problem, downing as much as a urn of whiskey a day. In 1986 he flew to a clinic in Mexico and was treated for fatness. In 1987 his associate for 15 years, Robin Paine, left him for good, send-off her representation in Coltrane's barn.

In 1988 Coltrane met then 18-year-old Rhona Gemmell in a pub. They married and had a son, Spencer, and a daughter, Alice. His vocation took off throughout the near the beginning 1990s with the most important role as Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a forensic psychologist, in the well-liked TV series Cracker (1993).

He made such a good presentation as Valentin Zukovsky, a KGB man twisted St. Petersburg mafia lord, in GoldenEye (1995) the producers called him rear for the same nature in The World Is Not Enough (1999). Then Coltrane hit one more profitable franchise; he was for me selected by J.K. Rowling as her option to play half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the 'Harry Potter' films.

In early 1990s Coltrane wrote an autobiography, "Coltrane in a Cadillac", and also starred in the eponymous TV series, Coltrane in a Cadillac (1993), in which he indulges his passion for vintage cars and tells with great humor about his 4000-mile journey across America from Los Angeles to New York. In 2003 he separated from his wife. His interests outside of his acting profession has been reading books, and rebuilding and collecting vintage cars. Robbie Coltrane resides in a converted farmhouse in Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK.