Robbie Coltrane factfile

1962 - Made stage debut in a school production of William Shakespeare's Henry V.
1973 - Robbie chose 'Coltrane' as part of his stage name in tribute to jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.
1973 - Produced and directed a documentary called 'Young Mental Health' which won the Film of the Year Award from the Scottish Education Council.
1979 - Made screen acting debut as a limo driver in 'La Mort en Direct'.
1980 - Robbie played a gay hairdresser in 'Metal Mickey', which was directed by non-other than The Monkees' Mickey Dolenz.
1981 - Played Detective Fritz Langley hunting down a psychotic saxophone player in Amos Poe's 'Subway Riders'.
1982 - Wrote and directed sketches in 'The Comic Strip Presents'.
1982 - Robbie played various roles in the television show 'Alfresco', which also starred Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson.
1983 - Starred as 'Rhun' in sci-fi movie 'Krull'.
1985 - Appeared in 'The Supergrass' as Detective Sergeant Troy, a spin-off from 'The Comic Strip Presents'.
1986 - Handed the role of Cardinal Scipione Borghese in Derek Jarman's 'Caravaggio'.
1986 - Played Thomas the mechanic in Neil Jordan's 'Mona Lisa'.
1987 - In the one-man show "Your Obedient Servant", Robbie had success in the role of Dr. Samuel Johnson.
1987 - Played 'Big Jazza' opposite Emma Thompson in the television series 'Tutti Frutti'.
1989 - Teamed up again with Emma Thompson for her television show 'Thompson' in which he co-wrote a sketch and also made two guest appearances.
1989 - Robbie starred in his own comedy special, ironically called, 'The Robbie Coltrane Special', in which he played different characters.
1989 - Cast as Sir John Falstaff in Kenneth Branagh's adaption of William Shakespeare's 'Henry V'.
1990 - Stars alongside Monty Python's Eric Idle in the movie 'Nuns on the Run'.
1991 - Plays the pontiff in 'The Pope Must Die', which was otherwise known as 'The Pope Must Diet' in the US.
1993 - Robbie drives a classic Cadillac across the USA, from Los Angeles to New York, for the TV special 'Coltrane in a Cadillac'.
1993 - Starred alongside Elijah Wood, Jason Robards and Anne Heche in 'The Adventures of Huck Finn'.
1993 - Stars as Dr. Eddie Fitzgerald aka Fitz in hit crime drama 'Cracker'.
1995 - Plays 'Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky', a Russian gangster, in James Bond movie 'GoldenEye'.
1997 - Robbie explores the history of various types of mechanized transportation in a TV special called 'Coltrane's Planes and Automobiles'.
1997 - Plays Dr. Bill Lintz, whose wife raises a gorilla as her son, in the movie 'Buddy'.
1998 - Played Barbara Hershey's ex-husband in Amos Poe's 'Frogs for Snakes'.
1998 - Robbie starred as Captain Chisholm in 'The Ebb-Tide', a television show based on a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
1999 - Plays 'Ned Tweedledum' in an all star cast featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lloyd, Pete Postlethwaite, Miranda Richardson, Martin Short, Peter Ustinov, Gene Wilder, and, erm, Ken Dodd! In the TV movie 'Alice in Wonderland'.
1999 - Back as the Russian gangster 'Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky' in the James Bond movie 'The World Is Not Enough'.
2001 - The Scotsman appears as Inspector Frederick Abberline - a detective on the hunt for Jack the Ripper in 'From Hell'.
2001 - Robbie plays 'Rubeus Hagrid' for the first time in J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'.
2002 - Once again, Robbie is back playing the giant groundskeeper at Hogwarts in 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'.
2004 - In the third movie of the Harry Potter franchise, the Scotsman once again resumes his role as Hagrid, in 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'.
2005 - Robbie reprises his role of Hagrid in 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'.
2006 - The Scotsman plays the 'Prime Minister' in 'Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker'.
2007 - Robbie returns as Rubeus Hagrid in 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix '.
2008 - Along with Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver, Robbie lends his voice for the character of Gregory in the animated film 'The Tale of Despereaux'.