Actor Robbie Coltrane, Harry Potter’s Hagrid, passes away at 72

Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, who performed a crime-solving psychologist on TV collection Cracker and the half-giant Hagrid within the Harry Potter films, has died. He was 72.

Coltrane’s agent Belinda Wright mentioned he died on Friday at a hospital in Scotland. She didn’t give a trigger.

Robbie Coltrane got here to fame as a hard-bitten detective within the Nineties collection Cracker, for which he received finest actor on the British Academy Television Awards three years operating.

He performed light half-giant Hagrid, a mentor to the boy wizard Harry Potter, in all eight Harry Potter movies, launched between 2001 and 2011.

Other roles embody a Russian crime boss within the James Bond thrillers Golden Eye and The World is Not Enough.

Robbie Coltrane gained rave critiques for taking part in a beloved TV star who could harbor a darkish secret within the 2016 miniseries National Treasure.

Belinda Wright mentioned that “as well as being a wonderful actor, he was forensically intelligent, brilliantly witty and after 40 years of being proud to be called his agent, I shall miss him.”

Wright mentioned Robbie Coltrane is survived by his sister Annie Rae, his ex-wife Rhona Gemmell and his kids Spencer and Alice.