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
Self
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
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
Sandy Frink
Untitled Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Sequel
Self
Being Stanley Baxter
Self
This is Stanley Baxter
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
130
Gender
Male
Birthday
1965-01-27
Place of Birth
Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
Also Known As
Alan Cummings