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HARDtalk: Alan Cumming

Actor Alan Cumming

20/11/2014 GMT

BBC News - HARDtalk, Alan Cumming

Stephen Sackur speaks to award winning Scottish actor, Alan Cumming.

Stephen Sackur speaks to actor Alan Cumming about his career, and the highs and lows of his personal life, including the shocking brutality he experienced in childhood.

Hardtalk speaks to Alan Cumming, the award winning Scottish actor who's chameleon-like talent has seen him play the Pope in a dress, the voice of the devil, a superhero in the X-Men series and a celebrated turn in Cabaret on New York's Broadway. In his personal life he's been married to a woman, is now married to a man, and has suffered a nervous breakdown. Highs and lows are nothing new to a performer but how much were they shaped by the shocking brutality he experienced in childhood?

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