Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming
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.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
223
Gender
Male
Birthday
1965-01-27 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
Acting

2026

Avengers: Doomsday as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

2025

RoboGobo as Dame Luxley (voice)

2025

My Happy Place as Self

2024

Drive Back Home as Perley

2023

Rare Objects as Peter Kessler

2022

My Father's Dragon as Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)

2022

My Old School as Brandon Lee

2018

Show Dogs as Dante (voice)

2018

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Narrator (voice)

2017

Michael Jackson's Halloween as Meriwether (voice)

2016

Hurricane Bianca as Lawrence Taylor

2014

Chu and Blossom as Uncle

2013

Muse of Fire as Self

2013

Almost in Love as Hayden

2012

The Outback as Bog (voice)

2012

Sir Billi as Gordon the Goat (voice)

2012

Any Day Now as Rudy Donatello

2012

Maladies as Alan

2010

The Tempest as Sebastian

2010

Jackboots on Whitehall as Hitler (voice)

2009

Dare as Grant Matson

2009

Boogie Woogie as Dewey Dalamanatousis

2007

Gray Matters as Gordy

2006

Web Junk 20 as Not available

2006

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical as Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR

2005

Playing It Straight as Narrator (voice)

2005

Sweet Land as Frandsen

2005

Neverwas as Jake

2005

Ripley Under Ground as Jeff Constant

2003

X2 as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

2002

Intimate Affairs as Sevy

2002

Searching for Debra Winger as Self (uncredited)

2001

The Anniversary Party as Joe Therrian

2000

Company Man as General Batista

2000

Urbania as Brett

1999

Plunkett & MacLeane as Lord Rochester

1999

Titus as Saturninus

1999

Annie as Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan

1997

Buddy as Dick Croner

1996

Emma as Mr. Elton

1995

Circle of Friends as Sean Walsh

1993

Cabaret as Emcee

1994

Second Best as Bernard

NaN

The Diary as Not available

2025

Sleazy Tiger as Alan Cumming

2024

Doctor Who as Mr Ring-a-Ding (voice)

2024

Chimp Crazy as Self

2023

The Traitors as Self - Host

2023

Marlowe as Lou Hendricks

2023

Genie as Flaxman

2022

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Not available

2022

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Actor

2022

Dead End: Paranormal Park as Harmony - Demonic Feaster on Fear (voice)

2022

Abominable and the Invisible City as Burnish (voice)

2022

Ooh the Banter! as Self (archive footage)

2021

Schmigadoon! as Mayor Aloysius Menlove

2021

Schmigadoon! as Dooley Blight

2021

The Prince as Owen

2021

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King as Narrator (voice)

2020

Briarpatch as Clyde Brattle

2019

The Kelly Clarkson Show as Not available

2019

Tamron Hall as Self - Guest

2019

Prodigal Son as Simon Hoxley

2019

Helpsters as Dancer Dave

2018

Instinct as Dylan Reinhart

2017

The Good Fight as Eli Gold

2017

Queers. as Steve

2017

Queers. as Not available

2017

Battle of the Sexes as Ted Tinling

2017

After Louie as Sam Cooper

2017

Queer as Art as Self

2015

Strange Magic as Bog King (voice)

2014

Broad City as Alan Cumming

2013

The Smurfs 2 as Gutsy Smurf (voice)

2013

The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow as Gutsy Smurf (voice)

2013

Picasso Baby as Self

2012

The Outs as Alan Cumming

2012

Urban Secrets as Not available

2011

Bubble Guppies as The Glitch (voice)

2011

Web Therapy as Austen Clarke

2011

The Smurfs as Gutsy Smurf (voice)

2011

The Runaway as Desrae

2011

The Money Pet as The Narrator (voice)

2010

Burlesque as Alexis

2010

Riverworld as Judas Caretaker

2009

The Good Wife as Eli Gold

2009

It's Complicated as TV Actor (uncredited)

2009

PoliWood as Self

2009

The Real Cabaret as Self

2009

The Mystery of Claywoman as Jon Lauting Phd.

2009

Ptown Diaries as Narrator

2008

Web Therapy as Austen Clarke

2008

Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack as Self - Hijacker

2008

Masterpiece Mystery! as Self - Host

2007

Tin Man as Glitch

2007

Suffering Man's Charity as John Vandermark

2006

The One Show as Self - Guest

2006

Me, Eloise as (voice)

2006

Full Grown Men as The Hitchhiker

2006

MOFO NYC as Self

2005

Doctor Who as King James

2005

8 Out of 10 Cats as Self

2005

Son of the Mask as Loki

2005

Eighteen as Father Chris

2005

Bam Bam and Celeste as Eugene

2005

Bad Blood as Davie Mitchell

2004

The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest

2004

The L Word as Billie Blaikie

2004

Garfield as Persnikitty (voice)

2004

Shoebox Zoo as Bruno the Bear (voice)

2004

The Goodbye Girl as Mark Bodine

2003

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over as Fegan Floop

2002

V Graham Norton as Self

2002

Nicholas Nickleby as Mr. Folair

2002

Becoming Men as Not available

2001

Spy Kids as Fegan Floop

2001

Josie and the Pussycats as Wyatt Frame

2000

God, the Devil and Bob as The Devil (voice)

2000

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas as The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged

2000

Get Carter as Jeremy Kinnear

2000

Loser as Alan Cumming / Emcee (uncredited)

2000

For My Baby as Daniel Orgelbrand

1999

Eyes Wide Shut as Desk Clerk

1998

Sex and the City as Oscar

1997

EP Daily as Not available

1997

Spice World as Piers

1997

Bathtime as Wrigley

1996

The Daily Show as Self

1996

3rd Rock from the Sun as Angus 'The Hole' McDuff

1996

Burn Your Phone as Andy

1995

GoldenEye as Boris Grishenko

1994

Gargoyles as John Castawa(voice)

1994

The High Life as Sebastian Flight

1994

Black Beauty as Black Beauty (voice)

1994

Butter as Ronnie

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest

1993

Frasier as Ahmrit

1993

Rik Mayall Presents as Greg Deane

1993

The Airzone Solution as MacNamara

1992

The Last Romantics as Tulloch

1991

Bernard and the Genie as Bernard Bottle

1989

The Simpsons as Loki (voice)

1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest

1985

Screen Two as Tulloch

1983

Taggart as Not available

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

NaN

Borges and Me as Not available

NaN

V13 as Sigmund Freud

1994

That Sunday as Not available

1992

Dread Poets' Society as Shelley

NaN

Glenrothan as Donal

NaN

The Naturalized as Self

1992

Prague as Alexander Novak

1986

Passing Glory as Rab

NaN

Lunch Hour as Not available

1989

Conquest of the South Pole as Not available

NaN

Death Do Us Part as Not available

NaN

Run as Steve
Crew

2023

Asog Executive Producer

2018

Instinct Executive Producer

2012

Urban Secrets Creator

2007

Suffering Man's Charity Executive Producer

2005

Sweet Land Producer

2001

The Anniversary Party Director

2001

The Anniversary Party Producer

1996

Burn Your Phone Director

1994

Butter Director

1994

Butter Writer

1994

The High Life Writer

1994

The High Life Creator