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
- 2026 · The Traitors: New Blood as Self - Host
- 2026 · Les Parfait(s) : Arnaques en Famille as Sean Mac Callaghan
- 2026 · Toy Story 5 as Evil Bullseye (voice)
- 2026 · Tip Toe as Leo
- 2026 · Glenrothan as Donal
- 2026 · Club Cumming as Self
- 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
- 2024 · Boarders as Alan
- 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 · The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self - Guest
- 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)
- 2021 · The Prince as Owen
- 2021 · Schmigadoon! as Mayor Aloysius Menlove
- 2021 · Schmigadoon! as Dooley Blight
- 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 Jenna & Sheinelle as Self
- 2018 · Show Dogs as Dante (voice)
- 2018 · Instinct as Dylan Reinhart
- 2017 · Battle of the Sexes as Ted Tinling
- 2017 · Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
- 2017 · Queers. as Steve
- 2017 · Queers. as
- 2017 · The Good Fight as Eli Gold
- 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 · Broad City as Alan Cumming
- 2013 · The Smurfs 2 as Gutsy Smurf (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 · The Tempest as Sebastian
- 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 · 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
- 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
- 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
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2002 · Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams as Fegan Floop
- 2002 · Through the Night with... as Self
- 2002 · V Graham Norton as Self
- 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 · 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 Castaway (voice)
- 1994 · Black Beauty as Black Beauty (voice)
- 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
- 1986 · ScreenPlay as Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 1985 · Screen Two as Tulloch
- 1985 · Screen Two as Andy
- 1985 · Screen Two as Alexander Novak
- 1984 · Travelling Man as Jamie
- 1983 · Taggart as Jamie McCormack
- 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 - Host
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1949 · The BAFTA Awards as Host
- 1949 · The Emmy Awards as Self
- Future · Rhona Who Lives by the River as Hamish
- 2026 · The Killer Among Us as Self - Host
- 2026 · Kiloran Bay as Torquil
- 2026 · One Night Out with Alan Cumming as Host
- 2025 · Being Stanley Baxter as Self
- 2025 · My Happy Place as Self
- 2025 · V13 as Sigmund Freud
- 2024 · Paris & Nicole: The Encore as Narrator
- 2024 · All Aboard! Scotland's Poshest Train as Self - Host
- 2024 · Chimp Crazy as Self
- 2023 · Genie as Flaxman
- 2023 · Rare Objects as Peter Kessler
- 2021 · Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland as Self
- 2018 · They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Always at The Carlyle as Self
- 2017 · Michael Jackson's Halloween as Meriwether (voice)
- 2017 · Queer as Art as Self
- 2017 · After Louie as Sam Cooper
- 2017 · The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin as Self (voice)
- 2016 · Hurricane Bianca as Lawrence Taylor
- 2014 · Chu and Blossom as Uncle
- 2013 · Muse of Fire as Self
- 2013 · The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
- 2013 · Picasso Baby as Self
- 2012 · Any Day Now as Rudy Donatello
- 2012 · Urban Secrets as
- 2012 · Sir Billi as Gordon the Goat (voice)
- 2010 · Jackboots on Whitehall as Hitler / Braveheart (voice)
- 2010 · Boogie Woogie as Dewey Dalamanatousis
- 2009 · Dare as Grant Matson
- 2007 · Suffering Man's Charity as John Vandermark
- 2006 · Full Grown Men as The Hitchhiker
- 2006 · Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical as Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR
- 2006 · Web Junk 20 as
- 2005 · Ripley Under Ground as Jeff Constant
- 2005 · Sweet Land as Frandsen
- 2005 · Neverwas as Jake
- 2004 · The Goodbye Girl as Mark Bodine
- 2003 · X2 as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
- 2002 · Nicholas Nickleby as Mr. Folair
- 2002 · Becoming Men as
- 2002 · Searching for Debra Winger as Self (uncredited)
- 2002 · AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories as Self
- 2002 · Intimate Affairs as Sevy
- 2000 · For My Baby as Daniel Orgelbrand
- 2000 · Company Man as General Batista
- 2000 · Urbania as Brett
- 1997 · Buddy as Dick Croner
- 1995 · Circle of Friends as Sean Walsh
- 1995 · Ghosts as Philip
- 1994 · Second Best as Bernard
- 1994 · The High Life as Sebastian Flight
- 1993 · Cabaret as Emcee
- Future · The Diary as
- Future · Tip Toe as Leo
- Future · Treasure Trekkers as (voice)
- 1994 · That Sunday as
- Future · Lunch Hour 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
- 2024 · Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes as Self
- 2023 · Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story as Narrator (voice)
- 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
- 2022 · My Old School as Brandon Lee
- 2021 · The Nutcracker and the Mouse King as Narrator (voice)
- 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
- 2015 · Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder as Self
- 2013 · Almost in Love as Hayden
- 2012 · Maladies as Alan
- 2011 · The Money Pet as The Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · Riverworld as Judas Caretaker
- 2009 · Victoria Wood: Seen on TV as
- 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
- 2006 · The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event as
- 2006 · Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema as Self
- 2006 · Motherfucker: A Movie as Self
- 2003 · X2 Global Webcast Highlights as Self
- 2001 · The Anniversary Party as Joe Therrian
- 1991 · Bernard and the Genie as Bernard Bottle
- Future · Romy and Michele 2 as Sandy Frink
- 1996 · Burn Your Phone as Andy
- Future · Borges and Me as
- Future · The Naturalized as Self
- 2005 · Bam Bam and Celeste as Eugene
- 2005 · Paw Prints and Baby Steps: On the Set of “Son of The Mask” as Self
- 2005 · Digital Diapers and Dog Bytes: Creating “Son of The Mask” as Self
- 2005 · Bad Blood as Davie Mitchell
- 2005 · Eighteen as Father Chris
- 2003 · FX2: Visual Effects as Self
- 2003 · The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2 as Self
- 2003 · Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler! as Himself
- 2001 · This is Stanley Baxter as Self
- 1997 · EP Daily as
- 1997 · Bathtime as Wrigley
- 1995 · Goldeneye: The Secret Files as Self
- 1995 · GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast as Self
- 1994 · Butter as Ronnie
- 1993 · Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love as Greg Deane
- 1993 · The Airzone Solution as MacNamara
- 1992 · Dread Poets' Society as Shelley
- 1992 · The Last Romantics as Tulloch
- Future · Death Do Us Part as
- 1989 · Conquest of the South Pole as
- Future · Run as Steve
- 1992 · Prague as Alexander Novak
- 1986 · Passing Glory as Rab