Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, who played a criminal offense-solving psychologist on Television series “Cracker” and the 50 %-huge Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” films, has died. He was 72.
Coltrane’s agent Belinda Wright mentioned he died Friday at a healthcare facility in Scotland. She did not give a induce.
Coltrane arrived to fame as a tricky-bitten detective in the 1990s sequence “Cracker,” for which he received finest actor at the British Academy Television Awards three decades managing.
He performed gentle fifty percent-big Hagrid, a mentor to the boy wizard, in all 8 Harry Potter movies, introduced in between 2001 and 2011.
Other roles consist of a Russian crime manager in the James Bond thrillers “GoldenEye” and “The Globe is Not Ample.”
Coltrane acquired rave evaluations for participating in a beloved Television set star who may possibly harbor a dark mystery in the 2016 miniseries “National Treasure.”
Wright explained that “as well as currently being a fantastic actor, he was forensically intelligent, brilliantly witty and after 40 a long time of currently being happy to be named his agent, I shall miss him.”
Wright claimed Coltrane is survived by his sister Annie Rae, his ex-wife Rhona Gemmell and his kids Spencer and Alice.
