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

The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

Boris Grishenko

GoldenEye

Loki

Son of the Mask

Fegan Floop

Spy Kids

Mr. Elton

Emma

Jeremy Kinnear

Get Carter

Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical

Frandsen

Sweet Land

Bernard Bottle

Bernard and the Genie

Jake

Neverwas

Sean Walsh

Circle of Friends

Therapist

Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men

The Hitchhiker

Full Grown Men

Grant Matson

Dare

Peter Kessler

Rare Objects

Fegan Floop

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

Joe Therrian

The Anniversary Party

Sandy Frink

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan

Annie

Saturninus

Titus

Lou Hendricks

Marlowe

Gutsy Smurf (voice)

The Smurfs

Mr. Folair

Nicholas Nickleby

Alexis

Burlesque

Black Beauty (voice)

Black Beauty

Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

X2

Dewey Dalamanatousis

Boogie Woogie

Dick Croner

Buddy

General Batista

Company Man

Self (uncredited)

Searching for Debra Winger

Judas Caretaker

Riverworld

Sebastian

The Tempest

Narrator (voice)

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

Sevy

Intimate Affairs

Jeff Constant

Ripley Under Ground

Mark Bodine

The Goodbye Girl

Wyatt Frame

Josie and the Pussycats

Narrator (voice)

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

John Vandermark

Suffering Man's Charity

Brandon Lee

My Old School

Hitler (voice)

Jackboots on Whitehall

Gutsy Smurf (voice)

The Smurfs 2

Bernard

Second Best

Chuck (voice)

Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World

Bog (voice)

The Outback

The Narrator (voice)

The Money Pet

Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)

My Father's Dragon

Alan

Maladies

Hayden

Almost in Love

TV Actor (uncredited)

It's Complicated

Daniel Orgelbrand

For My Baby

Alexander Novak

Prague

Andy

Burn Your Phone

MacNamara

The Airzone Solution

Gutsy Smurf (voice)

The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow

Tulloch

The Last Romantics

Self

Muse of Fire

Emcee

Cabaret

Gordon the Goat (voice)

Sir Billi

Rab

Passing Glory

Alan Cumming / Emcee (uncredited)

Loser

Narrator

Ptown Diaries

Lord Rochester

Plunkett & MacLeane

Flaxman

Genie

Shelley

Dread Poets' Society

Perley

Drive Back Home

Uncle

Chu and Blossom

The Diary

Piers

Spice World

Self - Host

Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza!

Bog King (voice)

Strange Magic

Desk Clerk

Eyes Wide Shut

Wrigley

Bathtime

Father Chris

Eighteen

That Sunday

Eugene

Bam Bam and Celeste

Self (archive footage)

Ooh the Banter!

Self

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

Death Do Us Part

Brett

Urbania

Fegan Floop

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

Ted Tinling

Battle of the Sexes

Self

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Lawrence Taylor

Hurricane Bianca

Greg Deane

Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2'

Sam Cooper

After Louie

Lunch Hour

Donal

Glenrothan

Self

X2 Global Webcast Highlights

Himself

Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler!

Meriwether (voice)

Michael Jackson's Halloween

Self

Queer as Art

Dante (voice)

Show Dogs

Self

MOFO NYC

Self

Always at The Carlyle

Conquest of the South Pole

Self

The Real Cabaret

Narrator (voice)

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

Self

PoliWood

Becoming Men

Self (voice)

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

B / Hamm

Endgame & Rough for Theatre II

Persnikitty (voice)

Garfield

Self

Picasso Baby

Self

Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder

Gordy

Gray Matters

Ronnie

Butter

The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event

Self

GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast

Self

Goldeneye: The Secret Files

Self

Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins

Davie Mitchell

Bad Blood

Alan Cumming

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

Rudy Donatello

Any Day Now

Jon Lauting Phd.

The Mystery of Claywoman

Borges and Me

Steve

Run

Sigmund Freud

V13

Alan Cumming

Sleazy Tiger

Self

92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center

Self

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

Self

The Naturalized

Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

Avengers: Doomsday

self

A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole

Self

FX2: Visual Effects

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

126

Gender

Male

Birthday

1965-01-27

Place of Birth

Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK

Also Known As

Alan Cummings