LONDON, U.Ok. –
Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, who performed a crime-solving psychologist on TV sequence “Cracker” and the half-giant Hagrid within the “Harry Potter” motion pictures, has died. He was 72.
Coltrane’s agent Belinda Wright mentioned he died Friday at a hospital in Scotland. She didn’t give a trigger.
Coltrane got here to fame as a hard-bitten detective within the Nineties sequence “Cracker,” for which he gained finest actor at the British Academy Television Awards three years working.
He performed light half-giant Hagrid, a mentor to the boy wizard, in all eight Harry Potter movies, launched between 2001 and 2011.
Other roles embrace a Russian crime boss within the James Bond thrillers “GoldenEye” and “The World is Not Enough.”
Coltrane gained rave evaluations for enjoying a beloved TV star who could harbor a darkish secret within the 2016 miniseries “National Treasure.”
Wright mentioned that “in addition to being an exquisite actor, he was forensically clever, brilliantly witty and after 40 years of being proud to be referred to as his agent, I shall miss him.”
Wright mentioned Coltrane is survived by his sister Annie Rae, his ex-wife Rhona Gemmell and his kids Spencer and Alice.
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