Cumming to host 'Mystery!' on PBS

Scottish-born actor Alan Cumming (

Tin Man

,

X-Men 2

) has been tapped to host the forthcoming season of PBS'

Masterpiece Mystery!

according to an announcement made Thursday.

The new season will start June 22, with

"

Inspector Lewis, Series I," a spinoff of the "Inspector Morse" series, followed by other British television mysteries.

Cumming won a Tony Award for his performance in the 1998 Broadway revival of

Cabaret

.

Recently, he starred with Dianne Wiest in an Off-Broadway production of

The Seagull

.