Alan Cumming
Acting
- Born:
- 1965-01-27
- Place of birth:
- Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
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
Filmography
Avengers: Doomsday
Treasure Trekkers
Borges and Me
Death Do Us Part
Les Parfait(s) : Arnaques en Famille
Toy Story 5
Tip Toe
The Killer Among Us
Glenrothan
Club Cumming
Kiloran Bay
One Night Out with Alan Cumming
Being Stanley Baxter
The Mighty Nein
Sleazy Tiger
A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole
My Happy Place
V13
RoboGobo
Paris & Nicole: The Encore
92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center
All Aboard! Scotland's Poshest Train
Drive Back Home
Chimp Crazy
Doctor Who
Doctor Who: Unleashed
Boarders
Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes
Genie
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
Rare Objects
Marlowe
The Traitors
Ooh the Banter!
My Father's Dragon
Abominable and the Invisible City
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza!
Password
Dead End: Paranormal Park
Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
My Old School
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
The Prince
Schmigadoon!
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins
Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
Briarpatch
Helpsters
Prodigal Son
The Tamron Hall Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Show Dogs
Always at The Carlyle
Instinct
Michael Jackson's Halloween
Battle of the Sexes
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Queers.
Queer as Art
After Louie
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
The Good Fight
Hurricane Bianca
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder
Strange Magic
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Chu and Blossom
Broad City
Muse of Fire
The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
Picasso Baby
The Smurfs 2
Almost in Love
Any Day Now
Urban Secrets
Maladies
Sir Billi
The Outs
The Outback
The Smurfs
Web Therapy
The Runaway
Bubble Guppies
The Money Pet
Burlesque
Jackboots on Whitehall
The Tempest
Riverworld
Boogie Woogie
It's Complicated
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
Planet 51
Dare
The Real Cabaret
The Good Wife
The Mystery of Claywoman
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
PoliWood
Ptown Diaries
Web Therapy
Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack
Tin Man
Ripley Under Ground
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Suffering Man's Charity
Gray Matters
The Graham Norton Show
Me, Eloise
The One Show
The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
America's Got Talent
Full Grown Men
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
Web Junk 20
Motherfucker: A Movie
Sweet Land
Bam Bam and Celeste
Neverwas
8 Out of 10 Cats
Collectormania 7
Paw Prints and Baby Steps: On the Set of “Son of The Mask”
Digital Diapers and Dog Bytes: Creating “Son of The Mask”
Bad Blood
Playing It Straight
Doctor Who
Son of the Mask
Eighteen
Who Do You Think You Are?
Shoebox Zoo
The Tony Danza Show
Garfield
The L Word
The Goodbye Girl
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
X2 Global Webcast Highlights
Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler!
FX2: Visual Effects
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
X2
Real Time with Bill Maher
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Nicholas Nickleby
Becoming Men
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Searching for Debra Winger
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Through the Night with...
V Graham Norton
Intimate Affairs
This is Stanley Baxter
The Anniversary Party
Josie and the Pussycats
Spy Kids
For My Baby
Get Carter
Loser
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
Company Man
God, the Devil and Bob
Urbania
Titus
Annie
Eyes Wide Shut
Plunkett & Macleane
Sex and the City
Spice World
EP Daily
Buddy
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Bathtime
Burn Your Phone
Emma
The Daily Show
3rd Rock from the Sun
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
GoldenEye
Circle of Friends
Ghosts
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
Gargoyles
Second Best
Black Beauty
The High Life
That Sunday
Butter
Cabaret
Frasier
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
Rik Mayall Presents
The Airzone Solution
Dread Poets' Society
Prague
The Last Romantics
Bernard and the Genie
She-Play
Have I Got News for You
The Simpsons
Conquest of the South Pole
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Shadow of the Stone
Passing Glory
ScreenPlay
Screen Two
Travelling Man
Taggart
Take the High Road
Masterpiece Mystery
Question Time
Saturday Night Live
Great Performances
Tony Awards
The BAFTA Awards
The Emmy Awards
The Diary
Lunch Hour
Run
The Naturalized
Romy and Michele 2