Actor
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Alan Cumming
Born 1965-01-27
📍 Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
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 212
Avengers: Doomsday
as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
2026
Glenrothan
as Donal
2026
Club Cumming
as Self
2026
Kiloran Bay
2026
One Night Out with Alan Cumming
as Host
2026
Being Stanley Baxter
as Self
2025
The Mighty Nein
as Gustav (voice)
2025
Sleazy Tiger
as Alan Cumming
2025
A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole
as self
2025
My Happy Place
as Self
2025
V13
as Sigmund Freud
2025
RoboGobo
as Dame Luxley (voice)
2025
Paris & Nicole: The Encore
as Narrator
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
Chimp Crazy
as Self
2024
Doctor Who
as Mr Ring-a-Ding (voice)
2024
Doctor Who: Unleashed
as Self
2024
Boarders
as Alan
2024
Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes
as Self
2024
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
2023
Ooh the Banter!
as Self (archive footage)
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
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
Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
as Therapist
2022
My Old School
as Brandon Lee
2022
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
as Narrator (voice)
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
2021
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
2020
Briarpatch
as Clyde Brattle
2020
Helpsters
as Dancer Dave
2019
Prodigal Son
as Simon Hoxley
2019
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
as Self
2019
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
2018
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.
2017
Queer as Art
as Self
2017
After Louie
as Sam Cooper
2017
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
as Self (voice)
2017
The Good Fight
as Eli Gold
2017
Hurricane Bianca
as Lawrence Taylor
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder
as Self
2015
Strange Magic
as Bog King (voice)
2015
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
2014
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
2013
Any Day Now
as Rudy Donatello
2012
Urban Secrets
2012
Maladies
as Alan
2012
Sir Billi
as Gordon the Goat (voice)
2012
The Outs
as Alan Cumming
2012
The Outback
as Bog (voice)
2012
The Smurfs
as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
2011
Web Therapy
as Austen Clarke
2011
The Runaway
as Desrae
2011
Bubble Guppies
as The Glitch (voice)
2011
The Money Pet
as The Narrator (voice)
2011
Burlesque
as Alexis
2010
Jackboots on Whitehall
as Hitler (voice)
2010
The Tempest
as Sebastian
2010
Riverworld
as Judas Caretaker
2010
Boogie Woogie
as Dewey Dalamanatousis
2010
It's Complicated
as TV Actor (uncredited)
2009
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
2009
Dare
as Grant Matson
2009
The Real Cabaret
as Self
2009
The Good Wife
as Eli Gold
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
PoliWood
as Self
2009
Ptown Diaries
as Narrator
2009
Web Therapy
as Austen Clarke
2008
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
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
2007
Gray Matters
as Gordy
2007
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
Me, Eloise
as (voice)
2006
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006
Full Grown Men
as The Hitchhiker
2006
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
as Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR
2006
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
as Self
2006
Motherfucker: A Movie
as Self
2006
Ripley Under Ground
as Jeff Constant
2005
Sweet Land
as Frandsen
2005
Bam Bam and Celeste
as Eugene
2005
Neverwas
as Jake
2005
8 Out of 10 Cats
as Self
2005
Bad Blood
as Davie Mitchell
2005
Playing It Straight
as Narrator (voice)
2005
Doctor Who
as King James
2005
Son of the Mask
as Loki
2005
Eighteen
as Father Chris
2005
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2004
Shoebox Zoo
as Bruno the Bear (voice)
2004
Garfield
as Persnikitty (voice)
2004
The L Word
as Billie Blaikie
2004
The Goodbye Girl
as Mark Bodine
2004
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
as Self
2003
X2 Global Webcast Highlights
as Self
2003
Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler!
as Himself
2003
FX2: Visual Effects
as Self
2003
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
as Fegan Floop
2003
X2
as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
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
2003
Nicholas Nickleby
as Mr. Folair
2002
Becoming Men
2002
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
as Fegan Floop
2002
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self (uncredited)
2002
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
as Self
2002
Through the Night with...
as Self
2002
V Graham Norton
as Self
2002
Intimate Affairs
as Sevy
2002
This is Stanley Baxter
as Self
2001
The Anniversary Party
as Joe Therrian
2001
Josie and the Pussycats
as Wyatt Frame
2001
Spy Kids
as Fegan Floop
2001
For My Baby
as Daniel Orgelbrand
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
Company Man
as General Batista
2000
God, the Devil and Bob
as The Devil (voice)
2000
Urbania
as Brett
2000
Titus
as Saturninus
1999
Annie
as Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan
1999
Eyes Wide Shut
as Desk Clerk
1999
Plunkett & Macleane
as Lord Rochester
1999
Sex and the City
as Oscar
1998
Spice World
as Piers
1997
EP Daily
1997
Buddy
as Dick Croner
1997
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
as Sandy Frink
1997
Bathtime
as Wrigley
1997
Burn Your Phone
as Andy
1996
Emma
as Mr. Elton
1996
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
3rd Rock from the Sun
as Angus 'The Hole' McDuff
1996
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
as Self
1995
GoldenEye
as Boris Grishenko
1995
Circle of Friends
as Sean Walsh
1995
Ghosts
as Philip
1995
Gargoyles
as John Castaway (voice)
1994
Second Best
as Bernard
1994
Black Beauty
as Black Beauty (voice)
1994
The High Life
as Sebastian Flight
1994
That Sunday
1994
Butter
as Ronnie
1994
Cabaret
as Emcee
1993
Frasier
as Ahmrit
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
as Greg Deane
1993
Rik Mayall Presents
as Greg Deane
1993
The Airzone Solution
as MacNamara
1993
Dread Poets' Society
as Shelley
1992
Prague
as Alexander Novak
1992
The Last Romantics
as Tulloch
1992
Bernard and the Genie
as Bernard Bottle
1991
Have I Got News for You
as Self
1990
The Simpsons
as Loki (voice)
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
Screen Two
as Tulloch
1985
Screen Two
as Andy
1985
Travelling Man
as Jamie
1984
Taggart
as Jamie McCormack
1983
Masterpiece Mystery
as Self - Host
1980
Question Time
as Self - Panellist
1979
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
Great Performances
as Self
1971
Tony Awards
as Self - Host
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
The BAFTA Awards
as Host
1949
The Emmy Awards
as Self
1949
The Diary
Borges and Me