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Coltrane, Robbie

Robbie Coltrane, (born Anthony Robert McMillan on March 30, 1950) is a Scottish actor.

Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid in a Harry Potter film.

Coltrane moved into acting in his early twenties, taking the stage name Coltrane (in tribute to jazz saxophonist John Coltrane) and working in theatre and stand-up comedy.

Coltrane soon moved into films, obtaining roles in a number of films such as Death Watch (1980), Scrubbers (1983), Krull (1983), Absolute Beginners (1986), Mona Lisa (1986) and appeared as “Annabelle” in The Fruit Machine (1988).

Coltrane played Russian gangster Valentin Zukovsky in the James Bond films GoldenEye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999) and a major supporting role in From Hell (2001) as well as half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter films (2001-present).

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