LIVE INTERVIEW in Tamarah's Closet: "Actor David Cubitt"
Enjoy the replay of my live interview with award winning actor,
David Cubitt.
David is best known for his role in the
NBC series "
Medium" as
Detective Lee Scanlon, alongside
Golden Globe Winner,
Patricia Arquette.
David Cubitt stars with
Naomi Watts and
Oliver Platt in feature film
Shut In, to be released in 2016 and he will also be seen this season in
Showtime's hit series
Ray Donovan. Also David will be a series regular in the upcoming television series "
VAN HELSING"
Recently Cubitt caught the eye of
Roland Emmerich and was cast opposite
Jonathan Rhys Meyers in feature film
Stonewall, which will be premiering at the
Gala screening at the
Toronto Film Festival in
2015.
You will see him with
Jeff Bridges in the upcoming 2015 release of the
Universal Pictures feature,
The Seventh Son. David is most widely known for his role opposite Patricia Arquette in the hit NBC series, Medium.
Prior to Medium, Cubitt starred alongside
Tom Sizemore in the
CBS /
Michael Mann series,
Robbery Homicide Division, set in downtown
Los Angeles. "
Working with
Michael [Mann] is as good as it gets, "says Cubitt," "
It's one of those very fortunate turns in my career." He first worked with Michael Mann in the critically acclaimed feature Ali, based on the life of boxing legend
Muhammad Ali, starring Will Smith and
Jon Voight.
Cubitt starred with
Colm Feore in the critically acclaimed film,
The Perfect Son, which tells the story of two estranged brothers brought together by their father's death. Cubitt plays a recovering drug addict who must face the revelation that his "perfect" brother is gay and dying of
AIDS. His performance earned him a
Genie Award nomination, and the
John Garfield Award for
Best Actor at the
Method Fest
Film Festival.
Born in
England to a
Dutch mother and
British father, Cubitt was six months old when his family moved to
Vancouver. While attending university, he worked on a cable music video show called
Night Vision, performing in comedic wrap-around segments. Cubitt describes this experience as "the beginning of [his] love affair with acting."
Cubitt continued to study acting full time, until he was kick out of theatre school where he was told he "couldn't act and would never work."
Soon afterward, Cubitt landed a leading role in the in feature,
Alive, starring
Ethan Hawke. The film was directed by
Frank Marshall, and recounts the story of the
Uruguayan rugby team who was stranded in the
Andes after a plane crash. Pa
Alive helped spark Cubitt's career and it wasn't long before he landed a series regular role on the hit
Canadian series
Traders, a show about the high-stakes lives of a group of investment bankers. David starred on the show for three and half years, during which time he won the
1997 Gemini Award for
Best Performance by an
Actor in a Continuing Leading
Dramatic Role and the
1998 Gemini Award for
Best Dramatic Series.
After landing a development deal with CBS, Cubitt moved to
Los Angeles and booked a role in the CBS series
Michael Hayes, playing the brother of
David Caruso's title character. Cubitt also had a recurring role on the CBS series
That's Life, starring
Heather Paige Kent,
Ellen Burstyn and
Paul Sorvino.
Additional television credits include a small arc on
A&E;'s hit series
Bates Motel,
FOX series
The American Embassy, featuring
Arija Bareikis, along with several
TV movies including the NBC mini-series,
10.5 with
Kim Delaney and the CBS',
John Christmas.
Additional film credits include the 2014 comedy feature The
Colossal Failure of the
Modern Relationship with
Enrico Colantoni;
Swann, starring
Brenda Fricker, about the investigation into the brutal murder of a Canadian poet; I
Shot A Man in
Vegas, starring
John Stockwell and
Janeane Garofalo; and the mountain climbing adventure K2.
- IMDb
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