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 has an older sister, Annie, and a younger sister, Jane. Coltrane is the great-grandson of Scottish businessman Thomas W. Howie and the nephew of businessman Forbes Howie. He was educated at Glenalmond College, an independent school in Perthshire. Though he later described his experiences there as deeply unhappy, he played for the rugby First XV, was head of the school's debating society and won prizes for his art. From Glenalmond, Coltrane went on to Glasgow School of Art, where he was ridiculed for "having an accent like Prince Charles" (of which he quickly disposed, though not before gaining the nickname