British Academy Television Award for Best Actor "Inspector Morse" "'1994 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in "Cracker" "'1995 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in "Cracker" "'1996 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in "Cracker" "'1997 Nigel Hawthorne as Edgar Pascoe in "The Fragile Heart" "'1998 Simon Russell Beale as Kenneth Widmerpool in "A Dance to the Music of Time" "'1999 Tom Courtenay as Roy Southgate in "A Rather English Marriage" "'2000 Michael Gambon as Squire Hamley in "Wives and Daughters" "'2001 Michael Gambon as John Harrison in "Longitude" "'2002 Michael Gambon as Raymond Symon in "Perfect Strangers" "'2003 Albert Finney as Winston
Robbie Coltrane "Lord Fauntleroy"), and thereafter Moray House College of Education (now part of the University of Edinburgh) in Edinburgh, Scotland. Coltrane later called for private schools to be banned and used to be known as "Red Robbie", rebelling against his conservative upbringing through involvement with Amnesty International, Greenpeace, the Labour Party and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Coltrane moved into acting in his early twenties, taking the stage name Coltrane (in tribute to jazz saxophonist John Coltrane) and working in theatre and comedy. Appearing in the 1981 BBC television comedy series "A Kick Up the Eighties", his comic skills also brought