‘A damaged person’: Alan Cumming on playing the schoolboy who was actually 30 - The Guardian

In 1993, a 16-year-old pupil at a Glasgow school was unmasked as a fully grown adult. Now his classmates have made a documentary – My Old School – about the astonishing deception

What most people remember about Scotlands notorious schoolboy impostor Brian MacKinnon is the size of the lie. How did a 30-year-old man, with only a dodgy accent and a worse perm, succeed in passing… [+9149 chars]

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