
About
Alan Cumming
Overview
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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Known for
Acting |
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2026 | Avengers: Doomsday | Actor | Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler | N/A N/A |
2025 | A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole | Actor | self | N/A N/A |
2025 | My Happy Place | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2025 | RoboGobo | Actor | Dame Luxley (voice) | N/A N/A |
2024 | Paris & Nicole: The Encore | Actor | Narrator | 70 Good |
2024 | 92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2024 | Sleazy Tiger | Actor | Alan Cumming | N/A N/A |
2024 | All Aboard! Scotland's Poshest Train | Actor | Self - Host | N/A N/A |
2024 | Drive Back Home | Actor | Perley | 58 Average |
2024 | Chimp Crazy | Actor | Self | 69 Fair |
2024 | Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2023 | Genie | Actor | Flaxman | 60 Fair |
2023 | Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
2023 | Rare Objects | Actor | Peter Kessler | 58 Average |
2023 | Marlowe | Actor | Lou Hendricks | 58 Average |
2023 | The Traitors | Actor | Self - Host | 69 Fair |
2022 | Ooh the Banter! | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
2022 | My Father's Dragon | Actor | Cornelius the Crocodile (voice) | 60 Fair |
2022 | Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza! | Actor | Self - Host | 58 Average |
2022 | Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men | Actor | Therapist | N/A N/A |
2022 | My Old School | Actor | Brandon Lee | 58 Average |
2021 | The Nutcracker and the Mouse King | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
2021 | Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland | Actor | Self | 69 Fair |
2021 | The Prince | Actor | Owen | 68 Fair |
2021 | Schmigadoon! | Actor | Dooley Blight | 69 Fair |
2020 | The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America | Actor | Alan Cumming | 59 Average |
2020 | Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2020 | Endgame & Rough for Theatre II | Actor | B / Hamm | N/A N/A |
2020 | Briarpatch | Actor | Clyde Brattle | 69 Fair |
2018 | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 61 Fair |
2018 | Show Dogs | Actor | Dante (voice) | 59 Average |
2018 | Always at The Carlyle | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2018 | Instinct | Actor | Dylan Reinhart | 69 Fair |
2017 | Michael Jackson's Halloween | Actor | Meriwether (voice) | 60 Fair |
2017 | Battle of the Sexes | Actor | Ted Tinling | 65 Fair |
2017 | Queers. | Actor | 68 Fair |
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2017 | Queer as Art | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2017 | After Louie | Actor | Sam Cooper | 58 Average |
2017 | The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | Actor | Self (voice) | 59 Average |
2016 | Hurricane Bianca | Actor | Lawrence Taylor | 59 Average |
2015 | Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2015 | Strange Magic | Actor | Bog King (voice) | 65 Fair |
2014 | Chu and Blossom | Actor | Uncle | 58 Average |
2013 | Muse of Fire | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2013 | The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow | Actor | Gutsy Smurf (voice) | 60 Fair |
2013 | Picasso Baby | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2013 | The Smurfs 2 | Actor | Gutsy Smurf (voice) | 57 Average |
2013 | Almost in Love | Actor | Hayden | 59 Average |
2012 | Any Day Now | Actor | Rudy Donatello | 60 Fair |
2012 | Urban Secrets | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2012 | Maladies | Actor | Alan | 58 Average |
2012 | Sir Billi | Actor | Gordon the Goat (voice) | 57 Average |
2012 | The Outback | Actor | Bog (voice) | 58 Average |
2011 | The Smurfs | Actor | Gutsy Smurf (voice) | 57 Average |
2011 | The Runaway | Actor | Desrae | 68 Fair |
2011 | The Money Pet | Actor | The Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
2010 | Burlesque | Actor | Alexis | 69 Fair |
2010 | Jackboots on Whitehall | Actor | Hitler (voice) | 58 Average |
2010 | The Tempest | Actor | Sebastian | 57 Average |
2010 | Riverworld | Actor | Judas Caretaker | 57 Average |
2009 | It's Complicated | Actor | TV Actor (uncredited) | 63 Fair |
2009 | Dare | Actor | Grant Matson | 58 Average |
2009 | The Real Cabaret | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2009 | The Good Wife | Actor | Eli Gold | 75 Good |
2009 | The Mystery of Claywoman | Actor | Jon Lauting Phd. | N/A N/A |
2009 | PoliWood | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2009 | Boogie Woogie | Actor | Dewey Dalamanatousis | 57 Average |
2009 | Ptown Diaries | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
2008 | Masterpiece Mystery! | Actor | Self - Host | N/A N/A |
2007 | Tin Man | Actor | Glitch | N/A N/A |
2007 | Tin Man | Actor | Glitch | 67 Fair |
2007 | Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World | Actor | Chuck Masters (voice) | 69 Fair |
2007 | Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World | Actor | Chuck (voice) | 58 Average |
2007 | ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2007 | Suffering Man's Charity | Actor | John Vandermark | 58 Average |
2007 | Gray Matters | Actor | Gordy | 58 Average |
2006 | The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event | Actor | 58 Average |
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2006 | Full Grown Men | Actor | The Hitchhiker | 59 Average |
2006 | Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical | Actor | Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR | 59 Average |
2006 | Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2006 | MOFO NYC | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2005 | Ripley Under Ground | Actor | Jeff Constant | 58 Average |
2005 | Sweet Land | Actor | Frandsen | 59 Average |
2005 | Bam Bam and Celeste | Actor | Eugene | 58 Average |
2005 | Neverwas | Actor | Jake | 59 Average |
2005 | Bad Blood | Actor | Davie Mitchell | N/A N/A |
2005 | Son of the Mask | Actor | Loki | 45 Bad |
2005 | Eighteen | Actor | Father Chris | 58 Average |
2004 | Shoebox Zoo | Actor | Bruno the Bear (voice) | 70 Good |
2004 | Garfield | Actor | Persnikitty (voice) | 57 Average |
2004 | The Goodbye Girl | Actor | Mark Bodine | 58 Average |
2003 | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2' | Actor | 58 Average |
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2003 | FX2: Visual Effects | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2003 | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men: Making X2 | Actor | Himself | 60 Fair |
2003 | X2 Global Webcast Highlights | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2003 | Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler! | Actor | Himself | 58 Average |
2003 | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | Actor | Fegan Floop | 52 Average |
2003 | X2 | Actor | Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler | 69 Fair |
2002 | Nicholas Nickleby | Actor | Mr. Folair | 61 Fair |
2002 | Becoming Men | Actor | 59 Average |
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2002 | Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams | Actor | Fegan Floop | 56 Average |
2002 | Searching for Debra Winger | Actor | Self (uncredited) | 58 Average |
2002 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2002 | Intimate Affairs | Actor | Sevy | 58 Average |
2001 | The Anniversary Party | Actor | Joe Therrian | 58 Average |
2001 | Josie and the Pussycats | Actor | Wyatt Frame | 58 Average |
2001 | Spy Kids | Actor | Fegan Floop | 58 Average |
2000 | For My Baby | Actor | Daniel Orgelbrand | 59 Average |
2000 | Get Carter | Actor | Jeremy Kinnear | 55 Average |
2000 | Loser | Actor | Alan Cumming / Emcee (uncredited) | 56 Average |
2000 | The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas | Actor | The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged | 52 Average |
2000 | Company Man | Actor | General Batista | 58 Average |
2000 | God, the Devil and Bob | Actor | The Devil (voice) | 70 Good |
2000 | Urbania | Actor | Brett | 58 Average |
1999 | Titus | Actor | Saturninus | 60 Fair |
1999 | Annie | Actor | Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan | 60 Fair |
1999 | Eyes Wide Shut | Actor | Desk Clerk | 73 Good |
1999 | Plunkett & MacLeane | Actor | Lord Rochester | 59 Average |
1997 | Spice World | Actor | Piers | 53 Average |
1997 | Buddy | Actor | Dick Croner | 57 Average |
1997 | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion | Actor | Sandy Frink | 60 Fair |
1997 | Bathtime | Actor | Wrigley | 58 Average |
1996 | Burn Your Phone | Actor | Andy | N/A N/A |
1996 | Emma | Actor | Mr. Elton | 62 Fair |
1995 | Goldeneye: The Secret Files | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
1995 | GoldenEye | Actor | Boris Grishenko | 67 Fair |
1995 | Circle of Friends | Actor | Sean Walsh | 59 Average |
1995 | GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
1994 | Second Best | Actor | Bernard | 59 Average |
1994 | Black Beauty | Actor | Black Beauty (voice) | 62 Fair |
1994 | The High Life | Actor | Sebastian Flight | 68 Fair |
1994 | Butter | Actor | Ronnie | 58 Average |
1994 | That Sunday | Actor | 58 Average |
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1993 | Cabaret | Actor | Emcee | 59 Average |
1993 | Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love | Actor | Greg Deane | 58 Average |
1993 | The Airzone Solution | Actor | MacNamara | 58 Average |
1992 | Dread Poets' Society | Actor | Shelley | N/A N/A |
1992 | Prague | Actor | Alexander Novak | 59 Average |
1992 | The Last Romantics | Actor | Tulloch | N/A N/A |
1991 | Bernard and the Genie | Actor | Bernard Bottle | 59 Average |
1989 | Conquest of the South Pole | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1986 | Passing Glory | Actor | Rab | N/A N/A |
1980 | Masterpiece Mystery | Actor | Self - Host | 69 Fair |
The Naturalized | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
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Death Do Us Part | Actor | N/A N/A |
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V13 | Actor | Sigmund Freud | N/A N/A |
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Glenrothan | Actor | Donal | N/A N/A |
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Lunch Hour | Actor | N/A N/A |
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The Diary | Actor | 59 Average |
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Borges and Me | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Run | Actor | Steve | N/A N/A |
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Directing |
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2007 | Suffering Man's Charity | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2001 | The Anniversary Party | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1996 | Burn Your Phone | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1994 | Butter | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
Writing |
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2001 | The Anniversary Party | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1994 | Butter | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
Production |
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2025 | Asog | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
2020 | Sharon Needles Presents: Mask It or Casket | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
2007 | Suffering Man's Charity | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
2005 | Sweet Land | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2001 | The Anniversary Party | Production | Producer | 58 Average |