Robbie Coltrane, the man who played HAGRID in Harry Potter movies has died at 72 after a short illness.

 

Anthony Robert McMillan

Anthony Robert McMillan OBE (30 March 1950 – 14 October 2022), known professionally as Robbie Coltrane, was a Scottish actor and comedian. He gained worldwide recognition as Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011), and as Valentin Domitrovich Zukovsky in the James Bond films GoldenEye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999). He was appointed an OBE in the 2006 New Year Honours by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama. In 1990, Coltrane received the Evening Standard British Film Award – Peter Sellers Award for Comedy. In 2011, he was honoured for his "outstanding contribution" to film at the British Academy Scotland Awards

Coltrane married Rhona Gemmell on 11 December 1999. The couple had two children: son Spencer (b. 1992), and daughter Alice (b. 1998). Coltrane and Gemmell separated in 2003 and later divorced.

Coltrane suffered from osteoarthritis in later life. He said he was in "constant pain all day" in 2016, and from 2019 on he employed a wheelchair.

During the campaign for the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Coltrane voiced his conditional support for independence, stating that "I'd eventually like to see independence – but only an independent Labour Scotland.

Death

On 14 October 2022, Coltrane died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, Scotland at the age of 72. He had been ill for the past 2 years