Henry Ian Cusick Filmography

Henry Ian Cusick is a Scottish-Peruvian stage, television, and film actor. He is well known for his role as Desmond Hume on the U.S. television series Lost, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He currently stars in the ABC drama Scandal, as Stephen Finch. Henry Ian Cusick was born in Trujillo, Peru to a Peruvian mother and a Scottish father . When he was two, his family moved to Madrid, Spain, then Glasgow Scotland, before moving to Trinidad and Tobago where they lived for ten years. There Cusick attended Presentation College, San Fernando. He moved to Scotland with his... family at the age of fourteen. Cusick attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and was asked to resign in his second year there. He got his first acting role at the Citizens' Theatre as an understudy in the Christmas Panto playing a polar bear. He appeared in various productions for the Strathclyde Theatre Group in Glasgow. He is fluent in both English and Spanish, and was raised Roman Catholic. Cusick began his career as a classical theatre actor.
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