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. |