Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going.
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Birth: | 22nd January, 1965 |
Nationality: | Scottish |
Profession: | Actor, Author, Director, Producer, Singer, Writer |
Alan Cumming, OBE, is a Scottish stage, television and film actor, singer, writer, director, producer and author. His roles have included the M.C. Cumming was born in Aberfeldy, in Perthshire, Scotland, the son of Mary, an insurance company secretary, and Alex Cumming, a forester. He has stated that his father was physically and emotionally abusive towards him. He has one older brother, Tom, and a niece and two nephews. Brought up in Angus, Cumming attended Monikie Primary School and Carnoustie High School. Following graduation, he spent a year and a half employed as an editor and columnist for the pop and TV magazine TOPS before entering the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. On graduation from Drama school he married fellow student, Hilary Lyon; they divorced eight years later and had no children.
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