| Full given name: | Jonathan James Cake |
| Hometown: | Worthing, England |
| Zodiac sign: | Virgo |
| Audition song: | I once sang "All Shook Up" for the man who directed Les Miz. He seemed confused. |
| Special skills: | I know the words to a lot of pop songs. Is that a skill? |
| First Broadway show ever saw: | It sounds terrible, but somehow I never seem to see Broadway shows. I did see Spring Awakening. |
| If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? | Lee J. Cobb in Death of a Salesman. |
| Favorite show tune: | It's in Company... the song by the three men - sweet, sad... Ah! [Current co-star] Michael Cerveris just told me it's "Sorry Grateful." |
| MAC or PC? | MAC, but barely |
| Most played song on your iPod: | "Suzanne," Nina Simone version. |
| One CD you couldn't live without: | "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" by Arctic Monkeys |
| Last book you read: | "Happiest Baby on the Block" [by Harvey Karp] |
| Must-see TV show: | "Sky Sports News," Channel 124, only between 7 and 8 PM nightly, You wont find Rugby and Cricket anywhere else. |
| Last good movie you saw: | Finally saw "My Dinner With Andre" the other night. |
| Favorite board game: | Trivial Pursuit |
| Performer you would drop everything to go see: | Morrissey, Stephen Dillane, Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| Pop culture guilty pleasure: | "Top Chef" |
| First stage kiss: | In Scarborough in 1993, directed by Alan Ayckbourn in a play about rowing. I kissed Saskia Wickham, bleeding profusely from a hand gashed by an oar. |
| How you got your Equity card: | Playing an innkeeper with a rapidly unsticking mustache in She Stoops to Conquer in Harrogate, England, 1992 (British Equity); Medea (American Equity). |
| Worst onstage mishap: | Performing The Mill on the Floss to a baying schools matinee in Madras India. I had to leave the stage during a frenzied and erotically charged waltz to be sick into a fire bucket. |
| Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition? | Never been on, but I have slept with one of the detectives. |
| Worst costume ever: | As a lanky 17 year old I played Falstaff, padded so much I couldn't get through the door to backstage and with a wig that looked like a sheep had expired on my head. |
| Cats or dogs? | Isn't that like asking "women or men"? |
| Favorite cereal: | I like Puffins. |
| Who would play you in the movie? | Cate Blanchett |
| Worst job you ever had: | Working for a trucking company in East London with a man who insisted I call him "Mad Dog." |
| TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed: | I lived in Rome for a summer filming "Empire" for ABC. The vita was never dolcier. |
