Alan Cumming
Born: 1965-01-27 in Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Alan Cumming (born 27 January 1965) is a Scottish actor, writer and presenter. 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 End production 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), Nightcrawler in 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Cumming, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2026
- Toy Story 5 as Evil Bullseye (voice)
- Avengers: Doomsday as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
- Tip Toe as Leo Struthers
- Glenrothan as Donal
- Club Cumming as Self
- Treasure Trekkers as (voice)
- Kiloran Bay as Torquil
- Les Parfait(s) : Arnaques en Famille as Sean Mac Callaghan
- One Night Out with Alan Cumming as Self - Host
- Death Do Us Part as Lord Ingannamorte
- The Killer Among Us as Self - Host
- Borges and Me as Alastair Reid
- The Wonderful Land: Well I Look Just Waiting Room! ... (Director)
2025
- The Mighty Nein as Gustav (voice)
- RoboGobo as Dame Luxley (voice)
- My Happy Place as Self
- Asog ... (Executive Producer)
- Sleazy Tiger as Alan Cumming
- Being Stanley Baxter as Self
- We Are Pat ... (Executive Producer)
- A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole as self
- V13 as Sigmund Freud
2024
- Doctor Who as Mr Ring-a-Ding (voice)
- Boarders as Alan
- Doctor Who: Unleashed as Self
- Paris & Nicole: The Encore as Narrator
- Chimp Crazy as Self
- 92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center as Self
- Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes as Self
- Drive Back Home as Perley
- All Aboard! Scotland's Poshest Train as Self - Host
2023
- The Traitors as Self - Host
- Marlowe as Lou Hendricks
- Genie as Flaxman
- Rare Objects as Peter Kessler
- Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story as Narrator (voice)
2022
- The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self - Guest
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
- Dead End: Paranormal Park as Harmony - Demonic Feaster on Fear (voice)
- Abominable and the Invisible City as Burnish (voice)
- Password as Self - Celebrity Guest
- My Father's Dragon as Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)
- Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men as Therapist
- My Old School as Brandon Lee
- Ooh the Banter! as Self (archive footage)
- Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza! as Self - Host
2021
- Schmigadoon! as Mayor Aloysius Menlove
- The Prince as Owen
- Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland as Self
- The Nutcracker and the Mouse King as Narrator (voice)
2020
- Briarpatch as Clyde Brattle
- The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Alan Cumming
- Endgame & Rough for Theatre II as B / Hamm
- Sharon Needles Presents: Mask It or Casket ... (Executive Producer)
- Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins as Self
2019
- The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- The Tamron Hall Show as Self - Guest
- Today with Jenna & Sheinelle as Self
- Prodigal Son as Simon Hoxley
- Helpsters as Dancer Dave
2018
- Instinct as Dylan Reinhart
- Show Dogs as Dante (voice)
- Always at The Carlyle as Self
- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Narrator (voice)
2017
- The Good Fight as Eli Gold
- Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
- Battle of the Sexes as Ted Tinling
- Queers. as Steve
- Michael Jackson's Halloween as Meriwether (voice)
- The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin as Self (voice)
- After Louie as Sam Cooper
- Queer as Art as Self
2016
- Hurricane Bianca as Lawrence Taylor
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- Strange Magic as Bog King (voice)
- Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder as Self
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- Broad City as Alan Cumming
- Chu and Blossom as Uncle
2013
- The Smurfs 2 as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
- The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
- Muse of Fire as Self
- Picasso Baby as Self
- Almost in Love as Hayden
2012
- The Outs as Alan Cumming
- The Outback as Bog (voice)
- Any Day Now as Rudy Donatello
- Urban Secrets
- Sir Billi as Gordon the Goat (voice)
- Maladies as Alan
2011
- Bubble Guppies as The Glitch (voice)
- The Smurfs as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
- Web Therapy as Austen Clarke
- The Runaway as Desrae
- The Money Pet as The Narrator (voice)
2010
- Burlesque as Alexis
- The Tempest as Sebastian
- Boogie Woogie as Dewey Dalamanatousis
- Jackboots on Whitehall as Hitler / Braveheart (voice)
- Riverworld as Judas Caretaker
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- The Good Wife as Eli Gold
- Planet 51 as Alien Mailman (voice)
- It's Complicated as TV Actor (uncredited)
- Dare as Grant Matson
- PoliWood as Self
- Ptown Diaries as Narrator
- The Real Cabaret as Self
- Victoria Wood: Seen on TV as Self
- The Mystery of Claywoman as Jon Lauting Phd.
2008
- Web Therapy as Austen Clarke
- Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack as Self - Hijacker
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Chuck Masters (voice)
- Tin Man as Glitch
- Gray Matters as Gordy
- Ripley Under Ground as Jeff Constant
- ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway as Self
- Suffering Man's Charity as John Vandermark
2006
- The One Show as Self - Guest
- America's Got Talent as Self - Guest
- Me, Eloise as (voice)
- Web Junk 20
- Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical as Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR
- Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema as Self
- The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
- Full Grown Men as The Hitchhiker
- Motherfucker: A Movie as Self
2005
- Doctor Who as King James
- 8 Out of 10 Cats as Self
- Son of the Mask as Loki
- Playing It Straight as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Neverwas as Jake
- Sweet Land as Frandsen
- Collectormania 7 as Self
- Bam Bam and Celeste as Eugene
- Digital Diapers and Dog Bytes: Creating “Son of The Mask” as Self
- Eighteen as Father Chris
- Paw Prints and Baby Steps: On the Set of “Son of The Mask” as Self
- Bad Blood as Davie Mitchell
2004
- The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
- The L Word as Billie Blaikie
- Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- Shoebox Zoo as Bruno the Bear (voice)
- Garfield as Persnikitty (voice)
- The Goodbye Girl as Mark Bodine
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest Host
- Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over as Fegan Floop
- The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2 as Self
- Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler! as Himself
- X2 Global Webcast Highlights as Self
- FX2: Visual Effects as Self
- X2 as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
2002
- V Graham Norton as Self
- Through the Night with... as Self
- Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams as Fegan Floop
- Nicholas Nickleby as Mr. Folair
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories as Self
- Intimate Affairs as Sevy
- Searching for Debra Winger as Self (uncredited)
- Becoming Men
2001
- Spy Kids as Fegan Floop
- Josie and the Pussycats as Wyatt Frame
- The Anniversary Party as Joe Therrian
- This is Stanley Baxter as Self
2000
- God, the Devil and Bob as The Devil (voice)
- The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas as The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged
- Get Carter as Jeremy Kinnear
- Loser as Alan Cumming / Emcee (uncredited)
- Company Man as General Batista
- Urbania as Brett
- For My Baby as Daniel Orgelbrand
1999
- Eyes Wide Shut as Desk Clerk
- Plunkett & Macleane as Lord Rochester
- Titus as Saturninus
- Annie as Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan
1998
- Sex and the City as Oscar
1997
- Romy and Michele's High School Reunion as Sandy Frink
- Spice World as Piers
- Buddy as Dick Croner
- Bathtime as Wrigley
- EP Daily
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- 3rd Rock from the Sun as Angus 'The Hole' McDuff
- Emma as Mr. Elton
- Burn Your Phone as Andy
1995
- GoldenEye as Boris Grishenko
- Circle of Friends as Sean Walsh
- Ghosts as Philip
- Goldeneye: The Secret Files as Self
- GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast as Self
1994
- Gargoyles as John Castaway (voice)
- Black Beauty as Black Beauty (voice)
- The High Life as Sebastian Flight
- Second Best as Bernard
- That Sunday
- Butter as Ronnie
1993
- Frasier as Ahmrit
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- Rik Mayall Presents as Greg Deane
- Cabaret as Emcee
- Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love as Greg Deane
- The Airzone Solution as MacNamara
1992
- The Last Romantics as Tulloch
- Dread Poets' Society as Shelley
- Prague as Alexander Novak
1991
- Bernard and the Genie as Bernard Bottle
1990
- Have I Got News for You as Self
- She-Play as Nick
1989
- The Simpsons as Loki (voice)
- Conquest of the South Pole
1988
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1987
- Shadow of the Stone as Tom Henderson
1986
- ScreenPlay as Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Passing Glory as Rab
1985
- Screen Two as Tulloch
1984
- Travelling Man as Jamie
1983
- Taggart as Jamie McCormack
1980
- Masterpiece Mystery as Self - Host
- Take the High Road as Jim Hunter
1979
- Question Time as Self - Panellist
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1971
- Great Performances as Self
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Host
1949
- The BAFTA Awards as Host
- The Emmy Awards as Self