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