Robbie Coltrane Biography, Career, Family, Spouse and Net Worth.

Who is Robbie Coltrane?

Anthony Robert McMillan, famously known as Robbie Coltrane, was a Scottish professional actor and comedian. Robbie earned worldwide popularity as Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series (2001-2011), and as Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in the James Bond movies GoldenEye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999). He was then appointed an OBE in the 2006 New Year Honors by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama. In 1990, he earned the Evening Standard British Film Award-Peter Sellers Award for Comedy. Coltrane was honored for his ”outstanding contribution” to film at the British Academy Scotland Awards in 2011.

Intro

He began his career appearing with Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, and Emma Thompson in the sketch series Alfresco (1983-1984). In 1987, Robbie starred in the BBC miniseries Tutti Frutti together with Thompson, for which he earned his first British Academy Television Award for Best Actor nomination. He then gained national popularity starring as criminal psychologist Dr. Eddie ”Fitz Fitzgerald in the ITV television series Cracker (1993-2006), a role which saw him earn the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for three years in a row (1994-1996). Coltrane later in 2006, came 11th in ITV’s poll of TV’s 50 Greatest Stars, voted by the public. He then starred in the four-part Channel 4 series National Treasure with Julie Walters in 2016, a role for which he earned a British Academy Television Award nomination.

He then appeared in 2 movies for George Harrison’s Handmade Films: the Neil Jordan noe-noir Mona Lisa (1986) alongside Bob Hoskins and Nuns on the Run alongside Eric Idle. Robbie also appeared in Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare adaptation Henry V (1989), the comedy Let It Ride (1989), and Roald Dahl’s Danny, the Champion of the World (1989). As well as Steven Soderbergh’s crime-comedy thriller Ocean’s Twelve (2004), Rian Johnson’s caper movie The Brothers Bloom (2008), Mike Newell’s Dickens film version Great Expectations (2012), and Emma Thompson’s biographical movie Effie Gray (2014). Coltrane was also famous for his voice performances in the animated movies The Tale of Despereaux (2008) and Pixar’s Brave (2012).

Robbie Coltrane Career

Coltrane shifted to acting in his early 20s, adopting the stage name Coltrane (in tribute to jazz saxophonist John Coltrane) and serving in theatre and comedy. He then appeared in the first stage production of John Byrne’s The Slab Boys at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh (1978). Coltrane’s comedic abilities brought him roles in The Comic Strip Presents (1982-2012) series (in 1993, he directed and co-wrote the episode ”Jealousy for series 5), and the comedy sketch program Alfresco (1983-1984). Coltrane appeared in A Kick Up the Eighties (Series 2) and Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee; he is praised as a writer for both.

1980-1991

He then moved into roles in movies including Flash Gordon (1980), Death Watch (1980), Balham, Gateway to the South (1981), and Scrubbers (1983). As well as Ktull (1983), The Supergrass (1985), Defence of the Realm (1985), Absolute Beginners (1986), Mona Lisa (1986), and also appeared as ”Annabelle” in The Fruit Machine (1988).

On television, Robbie appeared in The Young Ones, Tutti Frutti (1987), as Samuel Johnson in Blackadder the Third (1987) (a role he then reprised in the more serious Boswell and Johnson’s Tour of the Western Islands (1993)) as well as LWT’s The Robbie Coltrane Special (1989, which he also co-wrote), and in other stand-up and sketch comedy shows. Coltrane played the part of Falstaff in Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V (1989). The same year he starred alongside Jeremy Irons in the television film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book Danny, the Champion of the World. He also co-starred alongside Eric Idle in Nuns on the Run (1990) and played the Pope in The Pope Must Die (1991).

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How old is Robbie Coltrane?

Anthony Robert McMillan died from osteoarthritis at 72, on October 14, 2022, in Larbert, Scotland. He was born on March 30, 1950, in Rutherglen, Scotland. He shared his birthday with famous people, including Brooke Barry, Celine Dion, Noah Jay Wood, Piers Morgan, Eric Clapton, Sergio Ramos, Paul Reiser, Jerry Lucas, Tracy Chapman, Thomas Rhett, Richard Sherman, Rupert Evans, and Cassie Scerbo, among others.

Robbie Coltrane Family

Who are Robbie Coltrane’s parents?

Anthony Robert McMillan was born in Rutherglen to his parents, Ian Baxter McMillan and Jean Ross Howie. His father was a GP who served as a forensic police surgeon, while his mother was a teacher and pianist. Robbie was the great-grandson of Scottish businessman Thomas W. Howie and nephew of businessman Forbes Howie.

Does Robbie Coltrane have siblings?

Coltrane was born into a family of 3 children as the only son. He has two siblings, an older sister Annie McMillan and a younger sister Jane McMillan.

Robbie Coltrane Education

Coltrane attended school at Belmont House School in Newton Mearns. He then transferred to Glenalmond College, an independent school in Perthshire. Here he says he had miserable experiences but took part in the rugby First XV, was the head of the school’s debating society and earned prizes for his art. Coltrane then studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art.

Robbie Coltrane Interests

Coltrane was against private schools and called for them to be banned and used to be referred to as ”Red Robbie”, rebelling against the conservative upbringing through involvement with Amnesty International, the Labour Party, Greenpeace, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Robbie Coltrane Spouse

Coltrane was single at his death but was previously married and had a family. He met Rhona Gemmell in the late 1980s and they later married in 1999. They had two children before they separated in 2003 and later divorced.

Robbie Coltrane Children

Coltrane had two children with his ex-wife Gemmell at the time of his death. He has a son Spencer McMillan, born in 1992, and a daughter Alice, born in 1998.

Robbie Coltrane Height

Coltrane had a well-built, energetic, and physically fit body, adding up to an impressive height of 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) and a 127 kg (280 lbs).

1992-2005

Coltrane played a would-be private detective obsessed with Humphrey Bogart in the TV movie The Bogie Man (1992). His roles went on in the 1990s with the TV series Cracker (1993-1996, returning in 2006 for a one-off special), where he starred as forensic psychologist Dr. Edward ”Fitz” Fitzgerald. The role earned him three BAFTA awards. Roles followed this in bigger movies such as the James Bond movies GoldenEye (1995), and The World Is Not Enough (1999), a supporting role in From Hell (2001), and half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter films (2001-2011). J. K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, had him at the top of her list to play Hagrid and, when asked whom she would like to see in the role, answered ”Robbie Coltrane for Hagrid” in one quick breath.

Robbie also presented several documentary shows for the British ITV network based around his twin passions for travel and transportation. Coltrane in a Cadillac (1993) saw him cross North America from Los Angeles to New York City behind a 1951 Cadillac Series 62 coupe convertible, a journey of 3,765 miles (6,059 km) which he finished in 32 days. He then appeared in a series of 6 programs under Coltrane’s Planes and Automobiles. He extolled the virtues of the steam engine, the diesel engine, the V8 engine, the two-stroke engine, the supercharger, and the jet engine. In these shows, Robbie dismantled and rebuilt several engines. Coltrane also single-handedly removed the engine from a Trabant car in 23 minutes.

2006-2022

He was voted No. 11 in ITV’s TV’s 50 Greatest Stars and 6th in a poll of 2000 adults across the UK to find the ‘most famous Scot,’ behind the Loch Ness Monster, Robert Burns, Robert the Bruce, Sean Connery, and William Wallace in September 2006. In August 2007, he presented a series for ITV titled B-Road Britain, in which he traveled from London to Glasgow, stopping in towns and villages along the way. He then voiced characters in various animated movies such as The Tale of Despereaux (2008), Pixar’s Barve (2012) and the title roles of Gooby and The Gruffalo (both 2009).

In 2016, he starred in National Treasure, a four-part drama in which he portrayed a former comedian accused of historical sexual offenses. Coltrane was nominated for Best Actor at the 2017 British Academy Television Awards and won in the Royal Television Society Programme Awards category.

Illness and death

Robbie suffered from osteoarthritis in his later life. Coltrane stated he was in ”constant pain all day” in 2016, and from 2019 on, he employed a wheelchair. He died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, Scotland, on October 14, 2022, at 72. He had been sick for two years before his demise.

Robbie Coltrane Net Worth

Scottish actor, comedian, and writer McMillan were active in his professions from 1978 to 2022, having appeared in numerous shows and films. He has starred, written, and presented numerous shows and films and has garnered an estimated net worth of approximately $4 million as of his death in 2022.

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