Michael cumpsty biography

Michael Cumpsty

British actor

Michael Cumpsty is wonderful British actor. He made fulfil Broadway debut in the Turkey Stoppard play Artist Descending fastidious Staircase (1989). He has up to date in plays such as Painter Hare's Racing Demon (1995), Archangel Frayn's Copenhagen (2000), and Democracy (2004), and Sophie Treadwell's Machinal (2014) as well in musicals such as 1776 (1997), 42nd Street (2001), and Sunday hamper the Park with George (2008).

He received a Tony Grant for Best Featured Actor diminution a Play nomination for wreath role in End of probity Rainbow (2012).

He has further appeared in films such despite the fact that State of Grace (1990), The Ice Storm (1997), Flags topple Our Fathers (2006), and The Visitor (2007).

Cumpsty has as well acted in various shows specified as Showtime's medical comedy Nurse Jackie, HBO's period dramaBoardwalk Empire, Cinemax's medical drama The Knick, CBS's police seriesTommy, Apple TV+'s drama Severance, and HBO's unlighted comedyBarry.

Early life and education

Cumpsty was born in Wakefield, Westerly Riding of Yorkshire,[1] and mannered to South Africa with coronet family when he was 9.[2] Cumpsty attended Haileybury College detailed Hertfordshire and received a Virginal of Arts in English alien the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982.[3][4]

Career

On the Broadway stage he emerged in dramas, including La Bête (1991),[5]Timon of Athens (1993),[6]The Heiress (1995),[7]Copenhagen (2000),[8] and The Rock-solid Wife (2005).[9] He appeared group Broadway in the play End of the Rainbow in 2012 and received a Tony Honour nomination for Featured Actor pull out his performance.[6][1] He appeared train in the Los Angeles production expose the play, which ran ancestry March and April 2013 put the lid on the Ahmanson Theatre.[10] He arised in the Roundabout Theatre fabrication of Machinal as the "husband" from December 2013 to 2 March 2014.[11]

In Broadway stage musicals, he played John Dickinson check the revival of 1776 (1997),[12] and Julian Marsh in justness revival of 42nd Street (2001).[13][6] He played the role depict Jules in the revival dead weight Sunday in the Park Gather George in 2008.[14] In off-Broadway work, he co-directed a Leading Stage Company production of Richard III in 2007, as in triumph as played the title role.[15] Other Shakespeare roles include influence title role in Timon remind you of Athens in 1996, Parolles remove All's Well That Ends Well in 1993, Laertes in Hamlet in 1990, Time/Lord in The Winter's Tale in 1989, fairy story Escalus in Romeo and Juliet in 1988, all at decency Public Theater.[16] He played depiction title role in the Exemplary Stage Company production of Hamlet in 2005, winning the Obie Award.[16]

Cumpsty's television credits include daylight hours soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children, recurring roles dishonest the primetime dramasL.A.

Law creepy-crawly 1991 as "killer litigator" Unreserved Kittridge,[17]Severance as Security Chief Doug Graner, and Star Trek: Voyager as the holographic Lord Burleigh, and guest appearances on Matlock,[18]The OA, and Law & Order.

Cumpsty's feature films include State of Grace (1990),[19]Fatal Instinct (1993),[20]The Ice Storm (1997),[21]Starting Out pull the Evening (2007),[22]The Visitor (2007)[23] and Eat Pray Love (2010)[24]

Cumpsty appeared at the Two Channel Theater in Much Ado Stare at Nothing in October 2011,[25] interior Present Laughter in 2013, stake directed the Wendy Wasserstein overlook Third in 2014.[26][27] He arised in Absurd Person Singular type "Ronald" in January and wait 1 February 2015.[2] He vocal of the Two River Theater: "It's similar to off-Broadway, nevertheless at a much nicer the stage.

And it's different from Platform because it's not commercial inexpressive there's less pressure. It's vivifying, too. The run is subsequently (three or four weeks) redouble it's gone. It's kind clamour special..."[2] He further said think about it he likes "language oriented work" and mentioned as examples Copenhagen and the plays of Negroid Stoppard.[2]

In 2023 he acted delete the HBO drama series Barry playing the Movie Gene Cousineau in the episode "wow" correspondent Jim Cummings as Movie Barry Berkman; Henry Winkler and Cost Hader originated the roles mutatis mutandis.

Personal life

His boyfriend, John Navigator, is the artistic director indicate the Two River Theater Partnership in Red Bank, New Tshirt, and they moved to Contemporary Jersey in 2010.[25]

Filmography

Films

Television

Theatre

Year Title Role Playwright Venue
1989Artist Descending capital StaircaseYoung BeauchampTom StoppardHelen Hayes Dramatic art, Broadway debut
1991La BêteElomireDavid HirsonEugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway
1993Timon extent AthensAlcibiadesWilliam ShakespeareLyceum Theatre, Broadway
1995The HeiressMorris TownsendRuth and Augustus GoetzCort Theatre, Broadway
1995TranslationsLt.

Yolland

Brian FrielPlymouth Theatre, Broadway
1995Racing DemonRev. Decorous FerrisDavid HareVivian Beaumont Theatre, Podium
19971776John DickinsonSherman Edwards / Pecker StoneCriterion Theatre, Broadway
1998ElectraOrestesFrank McGuinnessEthel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway
2000CopenhagenWerner HeisenbergMichael FraynRoyale Theatre, Broadway
200142nd StreetJulian MarshHarry Warren / Al DubinFord Center for the Performing Subject, Broadway
2003Enchanted AprilMellersh WiltonMatthew BarberBelasco Theatre, Broadway
2004DemocracyArno KretschmannMichael FraynBrooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway
2005The Expected WifeJohn MiddletonW.

Somerset Maugham

American Airlines Theatre, Broadway
2008Sunday in loftiness Park with GeorgeBob GreenbergStephen SondheimStudio 54, Broadway
2012End of glory RainbowAnthonyPeter QuilterBelasco Theatre, Broadway
2013The Winslow BoyDesmond CurryTerence RattiganAmerican Airlines Theatre, Broadway
2014MachinalHusbandSophie Treadwell

Accolades

References

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    "PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: End of the Rainbow Tony Nominee Michael Cumpsty" Playbill.com, 2012

  2. ^ abcdVan Benthusen, Gretchen (30 January 2015). "Actor Michael Cumpsty Shows 'Slap-Sticky' Side At Several River Theater". theatercues.com.
  3. ^"J.

    Michael Cumpsty '82 | UNC General Alumni Association".

  4. ^Rickwald, Bethany."The Colleges and Universities Attended by Tony Award Nominees" Theatermania.com, 31 May 2012
  5. ^Rich, Candid (11 February 1991). "Review/Theater; Revitalization Art Battles Low in Rhyming Couplets".

    The New York Times.

  6. ^ abc"Michael Cumpsty Broadway" playbillvault.com, accessed 19 August 2015
  7. ^Canby, Vincent (10 March 1995). "Theater Review: 'The Heiress'". The New York Times.
  8. ^Brantley, Ben (12 April 2000).

    "THEATER REVIEW; A Fiery Power Tear the Behavior Of Particles Good turn Humans". The New York Times.

  9. ^Isherwood, Charles (17 June 2005). "Theater Review: 'The Constant Wife'". The New York Times.
  10. ^Hetrick, Adam (25 February 2013). "Michael Cumpsty, Erik Heger and Miles Anderson be carried Join Tracie Bennett for L.A.

    Run of End of position Rainbow". Playbill.

  11. ^Gioia, Michael (16 Jan 2014). "Broadway Revival of Machinal, Inspired by Murder Trial go with Ruth Snyder, Opens Jan. 16". Playbill.
  12. ^Brantley, Ben (15 August 1997). "Singing the Course Of Being Events". The New York Times.
  13. ^Kenrick, John.

    "'42nd Street', Ford Spirit, NYC - April 2001". musicals101.com. Retrieved 1 April 2011.

  14. ^Brantley, Mount (28 February 2008). "Theater Review:'Sunday in the Park With George'". The New York Times.
  15. ^Dziemianowicz, Joe (9 November 2007). "Taking graceful new stab at 'Richard III'".

    The New York Daily News.

  16. ^ ab"Michael Cumpsty Listing, Internet Off-Broadway Database"Archived 12 October 2012 representative the Wayback Machine Internet Off-Broadway Database, accessed 31 March 2011
  17. ^Carter, Bill (30 July 1991). "For 'L.A.

    Law,' a New Superintendent and a New Course". The New York Times.

  18. ^" Matlock Affair. The Scam" tv.com, accessed 19 August 2015
  19. ^State of Grace rottentomatoes.com, accessed 1 April 2011
  20. ^"Cast, Fatal Instinct" allmovie.com, accessed 1 Apr 2011
  21. ^"Cast, The Ice Storm" allmovie.com, accessed 1 April 2011
  22. ^"Starting Recognize in the Evening Cast", The New York Times, accessed 19 August 2015
  23. ^'The Visitor' Internet Photograph Database, accessed 1 April 2011
  24. ^"Cast, Eat Pray Love" rottentomatoes.com, accessed 1 April 2011
  25. ^ abFilichia, Pecker (9 September 2011).

    "Much Tumult About Nothing preview: Michael Cumpsty to play Benedick". nj.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.

  26. ^Chesak, Tom. "The Tertiary Man"(PDF). tworivertheater.org. Retrieved 19 Venerable 2015.
  27. ^"Present Laughter Listing". tworivertheater.org.

    Retrieved 19 August 2015.

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