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Alan Cumming

Acting 61 years old Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK ★ 3.1
Born: January 27, 1965

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.

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Filmography

Acting Credits (219)

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

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