Biography

Erin Cummings

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Erin Cummings was born in Lafayette, LA. She traveled extensively as a child, due to her father's military career, and has lived in numerous US cities as well as in Seoul, London, and Auckland. After graduating from high school in Huntsville, TX, she was a member of the Kilgore College Rangerettes dance team and received her BS in Journalism from the University of North Texas, where she was Captain of the UNT Dancers. She moved to Los Angeles to develop her skills and understanding of the world of TV, film and stage. Her studies continued at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Upon her return to the US, she starred as "Lady Macbeth" and "Queen Gertrude" in the Santa Susana Repertory Theater Company's productions of "Macbeth" and "Hamlet," respectively. Her dedication to her stage work and craft led to her first television role: two lines on "Star Trek: Enterprise" as "Prostitute #1." :-)

Cummings resides in the Hudson Valley of New York with her husband, their two children and their collection of stray animals.
- IMDb mini biography by: Erin Cummings' representative

Grew up in Huntsville, Texas after living in Korea, in Nebraska, and in various areas of Louisiana due to her father being in the military.
On September 9, 2016, just two months after she married Tom Degnan, Cummings announced that she had been diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma - an aggressive form of breast cancer - and had begun treatment at UCLA. As she battled cancer, her husband faced health struggles of his own, undergoing chemotherapy for a blood malignancy.
Became a member of Actor's Equity Association when she was offered the role of "Lady Macbeth" in the Thousand Oaks Civic Art Center's production of "Macbeth.".
Graduated from Huntsville High School in Huntsville, Texas - the same school that writer/director Richard Linklater attended and upon which he later based his film, Dazed and Confused (1993).
Studied Shakespeare at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.
A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamor or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.
I think it's true for men and for women, if you are even remotely attractive, people will assume you're just another pretty face and you don't have the work ethic or the talent to put in the time to flesh out a career.
All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.
My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.

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