His other performances on Broadway include Design for Living , and Macbeth Cumming has written a novel, Tommy's Tale , and two memoirs in and Cumming was born on 27 January in Aberfeldy , Perthshire, Scotland. His brother is a property manager in Southampton , UK. In his autobiography Not My Father's Son , Cumming describes the emotional and physical violence his father inflicted on him in his childhood.
He then found out his father had believed that Cumming was not his biological son. Cumming said that his difficult childhood taught him how to act by "needing to suppress my own emotions and feelings around him [his father] when I was a little boy".
He also featured in a comic relief sketch in on the popular UK television show Blind Date with Atkinson playing Mr. The series was written by Cumming and co-star Forbes Masson , continuing an acting-writing partnership the two had developed since their drama school days. Also in , Cumming appeared in the series Ghosts. American audiences first saw him portraying the smarmy Sean Walsh, an unwanted suitor of Minnie Driver 's character, in Circle of Friends , an Irish film released in Elton in Emma in Cumming co-wrote, co-directed, co-produced and co-starred in the ensemble film The Anniversary Party with friend and former Cabaret co-star Jennifer Jason Leigh in The company's first and only play was the first English production of Jean Genet 's play Elle , which Cumming had adapted from a literal translation by Terri Gordon.
The company closed in Cumming's novel, Tommy's Tale , was published in He has also written articles for magazines, notably as a contributing editor for Marie Claire , writing on the haute couture shows in Paris, as well as what it was like for him dressing as a woman for a day.
In , he returned to the West End playing the lead role in Bent , a play about homosexuals in Germany under the Nazis. Cumming introduced Masterpiece Mystery!
