Alan Cumming
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2026 · Avengers: Doomsday as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
- 2025 · My Happy Place as Self
- 2025 · RoboGobo as Dame Luxley (voice)
- 2024 · Paris & Nicole: The Encore as Narrator
- 2024 · All Aboard! Scotland's Poshest Train as Self - Host
- 2024 · Chimp Crazy as Self
- 2024 · Doctor Who as Mr Ring-a-Ding (voice)
- 2024 · Doctor Who: Unleashed as Self
- 2024 · Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes as Self
- 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
- 2022 · My Father's Dragon as Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)
- 2022 · Abominable and the Invisible City as Burnish (voice)
- 2022 · Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as
- 2022 · Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Actor
- 2022 · Dead End: Paranormal Park as Harmony - Demonic Feaster on Fear (voice)
- 2022 · My Old School as Brandon Lee
- 2021 · Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland as Self
- 2021 · The Prince as Owen
- 2021 · Schmigadoon! as Mayor Aloysius Menlove
- 2021 · Schmigadoon! as Dooley Blight
- 2020 · The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Alan Cumming
- 2020 · Briarpatch as Clyde Brattle
- 2019 · Helpsters as Dancer Dave
- 2019 · Prodigal Son as Simon Hoxley
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as
- 2019 · Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- 2019 · Today with Hoda & Jenna as Self
- 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
- 2017 · Michael Jackson's Halloween as Meriwether (voice)
- 2017 · Battle of the Sexes as Ted Tinling
- 2017 · Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
- 2017 · Queers. as Steve
- 2017 · Queers. as
- 2017 · After Louie as Sam Cooper
- 2017 · The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin as Self (voice)
- 2017 · The Good Fight as Eli Gold
- 2016 · Hurricane Bianca as Lawrence Taylor
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Strange Magic as Bog King (voice)
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · Chu and Blossom as Uncle
- 2014 · Broad City as Alan Cumming
- 2013 · Muse of Fire as Self
- 2013 · The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
- 2013 · The Smurfs 2 as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
- 2013 · Almost in Love as Hayden
- 2012 · Any Day Now as Rudy Donatello
- 2012 · Urban Secrets as
- 2012 · Maladies as Alan
- 2012 · Sir Billi as Gordon the Goat (voice)
- 2012 · The Outs as Alan Cumming
- 2012 · The Outback as Bog (voice)
- 2011 · The Smurfs as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
- 2011 · Web Therapy as Austen Clarke
- 2011 · The Runaway as Desrae
- 2011 · Bubble Guppies as The Glitch (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 Good Wife as Eli Gold
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · Boogie Woogie as Dewey Dalamanatousis
- 2008 · Web Therapy as Austen Clarke
- 2008 · Masterpiece Mystery! as Self - Host
- 2008 · Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack as Self - Hijacker
- 2007 · Tin Man as Glitch
- 2007 · Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Chuck Masters (voice)
- 2007 · Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Zeke (voice)
- 2007 · Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Chuck (voice)
- 2007 · Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Rupert (voice)
- 2007 · Gray Matters as Gordy
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Me, Eloise as (voice)
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical as Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR
- 2006 · Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema as Self
- 2006 · Web Junk 20 as
- 2005 · Ripley Under Ground as Jeff Constant
- 2005 · Sweet Land as Frandsen
- 2005 · Neverwas as Jake
- 2005 · 8 Out of 10 Cats as Self
- 2005 · Playing It Straight as Narrator (voice)
- 2005 · Doctor Who as King James
- 2005 · Son of the Mask as Loki
- 2004 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 2004 · Shoebox Zoo as Bruno the Bear (voice)
- 2004 · The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
- 2004 · Garfield as Persnikitty (voice)
- 2004 · The L Word as Billie Blaikie
- 2004 · The Goodbye Girl as Mark Bodine
- 2003 · The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2 as
- 2003 · Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over as Fegan Floop
- 2003 · X2 as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- 2002 · Nicholas Nickleby as Mr. Folair
- 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
- 2002 · V Graham Norton as Self
- 2002 · Intimate Affairs as Sevy
- 2001 · The Anniversary Party as Joe Therrian
- 2001 · Josie and the Pussycats as Wyatt Frame
- 2001 · Spy Kids as Fegan Floop
- 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)
- 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
- 1997 · Spice World as Piers
- 1997 · EP Daily as
- 1997 · Romy and Michele's High School Reunion as Sandy Frink
- 1996 · Emma as Mr. Elton
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · 3rd Rock from the Sun as Angus 'The Hole' McDuff
- 1995 · GoldenEye as Boris Grishenko
- 1994 · Gargoyles as John Castawa(voice)
- 1994 · Black Beauty as Black Beauty (voice)
- 1994 · The High Life as Sebastian Flight
- 1993 · Frasier as Ahmrit
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · Rik Mayall Presents as Greg Deane
- 1990 · Have I Got News for You as Self
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Loki (voice)
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1985 · Screen Two as Tulloch
- 1983 · Taggart as
- 1980 · Masterpiece Mystery as Self - Host
- 1979 · Question Time as Self - Panellist
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host
- Future · The Diary as
- 2000 · Company Man as General Batista
- 1997 · Buddy as Dick Croner
- 1995 · Circle of Friends as Sean Walsh
- 1994 · Second Best as Bernard
- 1993 · Cabaret as Emcee
- 1991 · Bernard and the Genie as Bernard Bottle
- Future · Rhona Who Lives by the River as Hamish
- Future · Borges and Me as
- 2025 · Sleazy Tiger as Alan Cumming
- 2025 · A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole as self
- 2024 · 92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center as Self
- 2024 · Drive Back Home as Perley
- 2022 · Ooh the Banter! as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza! as Self - Host
- 2022 · Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men as Therapist
- 2021 · The Nutcracker and the Mouse King as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins as Self
- 2020 · Endgame & Rough for Theatre II as B / Hamm
- 2017 · Queer as Art as Self
- 2015 · Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder as Self
- 2013 · Picasso Baby as Self
- 2011 · The Money Pet as The Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · The Real Cabaret as Self
- 2009 · The Mystery of Claywoman as Jon Lauting Phd.
- 2009 · PoliWood as Self
- 2009 · Ptown Diaries as Narrator
- 2007 · Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Chuck (voice)
- 2007 · ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway as Self
- 2007 · Suffering Man's Charity as John Vandermark
- 2006 · The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event as
- 2006 · Full Grown Men as The Hitchhiker
- 2006 · MOFO NYC as Self
- 2005 · Bam Bam and Celeste as Eugene
- 2005 · Bad Blood as Davie Mitchell
- 2005 · Eighteen as Father Chris
- 2003 · X2 Global Webcast Highlights as Self
- 2003 · Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler! as Himself
- 2002 · Becoming Men as
- 2002 · AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories as Self
- 2000 · For My Baby as Daniel Orgelbrand
- 2000 · Urbania as Brett
- 1997 · Bathtime as Wrigley
- 1996 · Burn Your Phone as Andy
- 1995 · Goldeneye: The Secret Files as Self
- 1995 · GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast as Self
- 1994 · Butter as Ronnie
- 1994 · That Sunday as
- 1993 · Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love as Greg Deane
- 1993 · The Airzone Solution as MacNamara
- Future · The Naturalized as Self
- Future · V13 as Sigmund Freud
- Future · Glenrothan as Donal
- 1992 · Dread Poets' Society as Shelley
- 1992 · Prague as Alexander Novak
- 1992 · The Last Romantics as Tulloch
- Future · Run as Steve
- Future · Lunch Hour as
- 1989 · Conquest of the South Pole as
- Future · Death Do Us Part as
- 1986 · Passing Glory as Rab