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Best bet for stardom: Malcolm Gets

Background: Age 31; raised in Gainesville, Fla. Started as a concert pianinst but switched to acting. Worked with Tennessee Williams in Tiger Tail at age 15. Graduated Yale Drama School; worked as a puppeteer.

Current role: Richard Karinsky, the cranky, high-minded, feline phobic, fastidious illustrator in NBC's Caroline in the City.

Stage work: Featured in Hello Again at Lincoln Center and starred in the off-Broadway revision of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, both in 1994.

Nickname among actors: Malcolm gets everything.

Attitude toward cats: "The first one we had on the show scratched and bit my hands. The one we have now is better. But I'm not crazy about them. I prefer dogs."

Future roles: "I'd rather play the character parts. With a lot of young leading men roles you have to erase your life experience. I look forward to getting old."

Future venues: "In three to five years I'll be back to New York. I felt a kinship with Mandy Patinkin, Glenn Close, and Kevin Kline, who return to the stage."

Favorite pastime: "One of my true joys in the world is to take music I don't know, sit down at the piano for two hours and read it like a book. The more difficult it is, the more I love it."

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