Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming

Birthdate
January 27, 1965 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
Known For
Acting

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Birthdate
January 27, 1965 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
Known For
Acting

Biography

Alan Cumming FRSE (born 27 January 1965) is a Scottish actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and an Olivier Award. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for the West Endproduction of Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1991). His other Olivier-nominated roles were in The Conquest of the South Pole (1988), La Bête (1992), and Cabaret (1994). Cumming won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for reprising his role as the Emcee on Broadway in Cabaret (1998). His other performances on Broadway include Design for Living (2001), and Macbeth (2013).

Cumming is known for his film roles in Circle of Friends (1995), GoldenEye (1995), Emma (1996), Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), Buddy (1997), Spice World (1997), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), The Tempest (2010), Burlesque (2010), and Battle of the Sexes (2017). He is also known for his roles as Fegan Floop in the Spy Kids trilogy (2001–2003), Nightcrawlerin X2 (2003), and Loki in Son of the Mask (2005).

On television, Cumming is best known for his role in the CBS series The Good Wife (2010–2016), for which he was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Cumming also starred in the CBS series Instinct (2018–2019), the Apple TV+ series Schmigadoon! (2021–2023) and presents the Peacock reality game show The Traitors. Cumming has written a novel, Tommy's Tale (2002), and two memoirs in 2014 and 2019.

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Alan Cumming's LGBTQ+ Titles

Battle of the Sexes
Battle of the Sexes
Ted Tinling
Gray Matters
Gray Matters
Gordy
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Self (voice)
Any Day Now
Any Day Now
Rudy Donatello
Urbania
Urbania
Brett
Hurricane Bianca
Hurricane Bianca
Lawrence Taylor
Eighteen
Eighteen
Father Chris
After Louie
After Louie
Sam Cooper

Acting (195)

The Diary
Death Do Us Part
Glenrothan
Lunch Hour
Borges and Me
Run as Steve
V13 as Sigmund Freud
2024
All Aboard! Scotland's Poshest Train as Self - Host (4 episodes)
2024
Drive Back Home
2024
Chimp Crazy as Self (4 episodes)
2024
Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes as Self (5 episodes)
2023
Genie as Flaxman
2023
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story as Narrator (voice)
2023
Rare Objects as Peter Kessler
2023
Marlowe as Lou Hendricks
2023
The Traitors as Self - Host (24 episodes)
2022
Ooh the Banter! as Self (archive footage)
2022
My Father's Dragon as Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)
2022
Abominable and the Invisible City as Burnish (voice) (10 episodes)
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (1 episode)
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Actor (1 episode)
2022
Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza! as Self - Host
2022
Dead End: Paranormal Park as Harmony - Demonic Feaster on Fear (voice) (2 episodes)
2022
Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men as Therapist
2022
My Old School as Brandon Lee
2021
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King as Narrator (voice)
2021
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland as Self (7 episodes)
2021
The Prince as Owen (12 episodes)
2021
Schmigadoon! as Dooley Blight (6 episodes)
2021
Schmigadoon! as Mayor Aloysius Menlove (6 episodes)
2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Alan Cumming
2020
Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins as Self
2020
Endgame & Rough for Theatre II as B / Hamm
2020
Briarpatch as Clyde Brattle (10 episodes)
2019
Helpsters as Dancer Dave (1 episode)
2019
Prodigal Son as Simon Hoxley (2 episodes)
2019
Tamron Hall as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Narrator (voice)
2018
Show Dogs as Dante (voice)
2018
Always at The Carlyle as Self
2018
Instinct as Dylan Reinhart (24 episodes)
2017
Michael Jackson's Halloween as Meriwether (voice)
2017
Battle of the Sexes as Ted Tinling
2017
Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self (1 episode)
2017
Queers. (8 episodes)
2017
Queers. as Steve (1 episode)
2017
Queer as Art as Self
2017
After Louie as Sam Cooper
2017
The Good Fight as Eli Gold (2 episodes)
2016
Hurricane Bianca as Lawrence Taylor
2015
Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder as Self
2015
Strange Magic as Bog King (voice)
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self (3 episodes)
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (1 episode)
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self (2 episodes)
2014
Chu and Blossom as Uncle
2014
Broad City as Alan Cumming (1 episode)
2013
Muse of Fire as Self
2013
The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
2013
Picasso Baby as Self
2013
The Smurfs 2 as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
2013
Almost in Love as Hayden
2012
Any Day Now as Rudy Donatello
2012
Urban Secrets (10 episodes)
2012
Maladies as Alan
2012
Sir Billi as Gordon the Goat (voice)
2012
The Outs as Alan Cumming (3 episodes)
2012
The Outback as Bog (voice)
2011
The Smurfs as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
2011
Web Therapy as Austen Clarke (6 episodes)
2011
The Runaway as Desrae (6 episodes)
2011
Bubble Guppies as The Glitch (voice) (1 episode)
2011
The Money Pet as The Narrator (voice)
2010
Burlesque as Alexis
2010
Jackboots on Whitehall as Hitler (voice)
2010
The Tempest as Sebastian
2010
Riverworld as Judas Caretaker
2009
It's Complicated as TV Actor (uncredited)
2009
Dare as Grant Matson
2009
The Real Cabaret as Self
2009
The Good Wife as Eli Gold (140 episodes)
2009
The Mystery of Claywoman as Jon Lauting Phd.
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest (5 episodes)
2009
PoliWood as Self
2009
Boogie Woogie as Dewey Dalamanatousis
2009
Ptown Diaries as Narrator
2008
Web Therapy as Austen Clarke (4 episodes)
2008
Masterpiece Mystery! as Self - Host (23 episodes)
2008
Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack as Self
2008
Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack as Self - Hijacker (1 episode)
2007
Tin Man as Glitch (3 episodes)
2007
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Chuck (voice) (1 episode)
2007
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Chuck Masters (voice) (14 episodes)
2007
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Rupert (voice) (1 episode)
2007
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Zeke (voice) (1 episode)
2007
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Chuck (voice)
2007
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway as Self
2007
Ghost Writer as John Vandermark
2007
The Graham Norton Show as Self (3 episodes)
2006
Gray Matters as Gordy
2006
Me, Eloise as (voice) (1 episode)
2006
The One Show as Self - Guest (2 episodes)
2006
The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
2006
Full Grown Men as The Hitchhiker
2006
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical as Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR
2006
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema as Self
2006
Web Junk 20 (1 episode)
2006
MOFO NYC as Self
2005
Ripley Under Ground as Jeff Constant
2005
Sweet Land as Frandsen
2005
Bam Bam and Celeste as Eugene
2005
Neverwas as Jake
2005
8 Out of 10 Cats as Self (2 episodes)
2005
Bad Blood as Davie Mitchell
2005
Playing It Straight as Narrator (voice) (6 episodes)
2005
Doctor Who as King James (1 episode)
2005
Son of the Mask as Loki
2005
Eighteen as Father Chris
2004
Who Do You Think You Are? as Self (1 episode)
2004
Shoebox Zoo as Bruno the Bear (voice) (26 episodes)
2004
The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest (2 episodes)
2004
Garfield as Persnikitty (voice)
2004
The L Word as Billie Blaikie (6 episodes)
2004
The Goodbye Girl as Mark Bodine
2003
Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler! as Himself
2003
X2 Global Webcast Highlights as Self
2003
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
2003
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over as Fegan Floop
2003
X2 as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher as Self (1 episode)
2002
Nicholas Nickleby as Mr. Folair
2002
Becoming Men
2002
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams as Fegan Floop
2002
Searching for Debra Winger as Self (uncredited)
2002
Through the Night with... as Self (1 episode)
2002
V Graham Norton as Self (2 episodes)
2002
Intimate Affairs as Sevy
2002
CinéMagique as The Magician
2001
The Anniversary Party as Joe Therrian
2001
Josie and the Pussycats as Wyatt Frame
2001
Spy Kids as Fegan Floop
2000
For My Baby as Daniel Orgelbrand
2000
Get Carter as Jeremy Kinnear
2000
Loser as Alan Cumming / Emcee (uncredited)
2000
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas as The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged
2000
God, the Devil and Bob as The Devil (voice) (13 episodes)
2000
Company Man as General Batista
2000
Urbania as Brett
1999
Titus as Saturninus
1999
Annie as Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan
1999
Eyes Wide Shut as Desk Clerk
1999
Plunkett & MacLeane as Lord Rochester
1998
Sex and the City as Oscar (1 episode)
1997
Spice World as Piers
1997
EP Daily (1 episode)
1997
Buddy as Dick Croner
1997
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion as Sandy Frink
1997
Bathtime as Wrigley
1996
Burn Your Phone as Andy
1996
Emma as Mr. Elton
1996
The Daily Show as Self (1 episode)
1996
3rd Rock from the Sun as Angus 'The Hole' McDuff (1 episode)
1995
Goldeneye: The Secret Files as Self
1995
GoldenEye as Boris Grishenko
1995
Circle of Friends as Sean Walsh
1995
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast as Self
1994
Second Best as Bernard
1994
Black Beauty as Black Beauty (voice)
1994
The High Life as Sebastian Flight (6 episodes)
1994
The High Life as Self (1 episode)
1994
Butter as Ronnie
1994
That Sunday
1993
Cabaret as Emcee
1993
Frasier as Ahmrit (1 episode)
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest (6 episodes)
1993
Rik Mayall Presents as Greg Deane (1 episode)
1993
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love as Greg Deane
1993
Mr. Bean: Blind Date as Roger
1993
The Airzone Solution as MacNamara
1992
Dread Poets' Society as Shelley
1992
Prague as Alexander Novak
1992
The Last Romantics as Tulloch
1991
Bernard and the Genie as Bernard Bottle
1989
The Simpsons as Loki (voice) (1 episode)
1989
Conquest of the South Pole
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest (2 episodes)
1986
Passing Glory as Rab
1985
Screen Two as Tulloch (1 episode)
1983
Taggart (1 episode)
1980
Masterpiece Mystery as Self - Host (941 episodes)
1979
Question Time as Self - Panellist (1 episode)
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Host (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Presenter (1 episode)

Directing (4)

2007
Ghost Writer • Director
• Director
2001
The Anniversary Party • Director
• Director
1996
Burn Your Phone • Director
• Director
1994
Butter • Director
• Director

Production (6)

2023
Asog • Executive Producer
• Executive Producer
2020
Sharon Needles Presents: Mask It or Casket • Executive Producer
• Executive Producer
2018
Instinct • Executive Producer (13 episodes)
• Executive Producer (13 episodes)
2007
Ghost Writer • Executive Producer
• Executive Producer
2005
Sweet Land • Producer
• Producer
2001
The Anniversary Party • Producer
• Producer

Creator (2)

2012
Urban Secrets • Creator
• Creator
1994
The High Life • Creator
• Creator

Writing (3)

2001
The Anniversary Party • Writer
• Writer
1994
The High Life • Writer (5 episodes)
• Writer (5 episodes)
1994
Butter • Writer
• Writer