Alan Cumming

Acting • Born 1965-01-27

Acting3Aberfeldy, 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.

Filmography

221 credits

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

Movie • 2000

The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged

GoldenEye

Movie • 1995

Boris Grishenko

Son of the Mask

Movie • 2005

Loki

Spy Kids

Movie • 2001

Fegan Floop

Emma

Movie • 1996

Mr. Elton

Get Carter

Movie • 2000

Jeremy Kinnear

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical

Movie • 2006

Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR

Sweet Land

Movie • 2005

Frandsen

Bernard and the Genie

Movie • 1991

Bernard Bottle

Neverwas

Movie • 2005

Jake

Circle of Friends

Movie • 1995

Sean Walsh

Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men

Movie • 2022

Therapist

Full Grown Men

Movie • 2006

The Hitchhiker

Dare

Movie • 2009

Grant Matson

Rare Objects

Movie • 2023

Peter Kessler

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

Movie • 2003

Fegan Floop

The Anniversary Party

Movie • 2001

Joe Therrian

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

Movie • 1997

Sandy Frink

Annie

Movie • 1999

Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan

Titus

Movie • 1999

Saturninus

Marlowe

Movie • 2023

Lou Hendricks

The Smurfs

Movie • 2011

Gutsy Smurf (voice)

Nicholas Nickleby

Movie • 2002

Mr. Folair

Burlesque

Movie • 2010

Alexis

Black Beauty

Movie • 1994

Black Beauty (voice)

X2

Movie • 2003

Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

Boogie Woogie

Movie • 2010

Dewey Dalamanatousis

Buddy

Movie • 1997

Dick Croner

Company Man

Movie • 2000

General Batista

Searching for Debra Winger

Movie • 2002

Self (uncredited)

Riverworld

Movie • 2010

Judas Caretaker

The Tempest

Movie • 2010

Sebastian

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

Movie • 2021

Narrator (voice)

Ripley Under Ground

Movie • 2005

Jeff Constant

Intimate Affairs

Movie • 2002

Sevy

The Goodbye Girl

Movie • 2004

Mark Bodine

Josie and the Pussycats

Movie • 2001

Wyatt Frame

Suffering Man's Charity

Movie • 2007

John Vandermark

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Movie • 2023

Narrator (voice)

My Old School

Movie • 2022

Brandon Lee

Jackboots on Whitehall

Movie • 2010

Hitler (voice)

The Smurfs 2

Movie • 2013

Gutsy Smurf (voice)

Second Best

Movie • 1994

Bernard

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

Movie • 2007

Chuck (voice)

The Outback

Movie • 2012

Bog (voice)

The Money Pet

Movie • 2011

The Narrator (voice)

My Father's Dragon

Movie • 2022

Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)

Maladies

Movie • 2012

Alan

Almost in Love

Movie • 2013

Hayden

It's Complicated

Movie • 2009

TV Actor (uncredited)

For My Baby

Movie • 2000

Daniel Orgelbrand

Prague

Movie • 1992

Alexander Novak

Burn Your Phone

Movie • 1996

Andy

The Airzone Solution

Movie • 1993

MacNamara

The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow

Movie • 2013

Gutsy Smurf (voice)

The Last Romantics

Movie • 1992

Tulloch

Muse of Fire

Movie • 2013

Self

Cabaret

Movie • 1993

Emcee

Sir Billi

Movie • 2012

Gordon the Goat (voice)

Passing Glory

Movie • 1986

Rab

Loser

Movie • 2000

Alan Cumming / Emcee (uncredited)

Ptown Diaries

Movie • 2009

Narrator

Plunkett & MacLeane

Movie • 1999

Lord Rochester

Genie

Movie • 2023

Flaxman

Dread Poets' Society

Movie • 1992

Shelley

Drive Back Home

Movie • 2024

Perley

Chu and Blossom

Movie • 2014

Uncle

The Diary

Movie

Spice World

Movie • 1997

Piers

Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza!

Movie • 2022

Self - Host

Strange Magic

Movie • 2015

Bog King (voice)

Eyes Wide Shut

Movie • 1999

Desk Clerk

Bathtime

Movie • 1997

Wrigley

Eighteen

Movie • 2005

Father Chris

That Sunday

Movie • 1994

Bam Bam and Celeste

Movie • 2005

Eugene

Ooh the Banter!

Movie • 2022

Self (archive footage)

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

Movie • 2007

Self

Death Do Us Part

Movie

Urbania

Movie • 2000

Brett

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

Movie • 2002

Fegan Floop

Battle of the Sexes

Movie • 2017

Ted Tinling

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Movie • 2006

Self

Hurricane Bianca

Movie • 2016

Lawrence Taylor

Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love

Movie • 1993

Greg Deane

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2

Movie • 2003

Self

After Louie

Movie • 2017

Sam Cooper

Lunch Hour

Movie

Glenrothan

Movie • 2026

Donal

Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler!

Movie • 2003

Himself

X2 Global Webcast Highlights

Movie • 2003

Self

Michael Jackson's Halloween

Movie • 2017

Meriwether (voice)

Queer as Art

Movie • 2017

Self

Show Dogs

Movie • 2018

Dante (voice)

Motherfucker: A Movie

Movie • 2006

Self

Always at The Carlyle

Movie • 2018

Self

Conquest of the South Pole

Movie • 1989

The Real Cabaret

Movie • 2009

Movie • 2007

Gordy

Butter

Movie • 1994

Ronnie

The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event

Movie • 2006

Goldeneye: The Secret Files

Movie • 1995

Self

GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast

Movie • 1995

Self

Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins

Movie • 2020

Self

Bad Blood

Movie • 2005

Davie Mitchell

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

Movie • 2020

Alan Cumming

Any Day Now

Movie • 2012

Rudy Donatello

The Mystery of Claywoman

Movie • 2009

Jon Lauting Phd.

Borges and Me

Movie

Run

Movie

Steve

V13

Movie • 2025

Sigmund Freud

Sleazy Tiger

Movie • 2025

Alan Cumming

92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center

Movie • 2024

Self

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

Movie • 2002

Self

The Naturalized

Movie

Self

Avengers: Doomsday

Movie • 2026

Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole

Movie • 2025

self

FX2: Visual Effects

Movie • 2003

Self

Victoria Wood: Seen on TV

Movie • 2009

Untitled Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Sequel

Movie

Sandy Frink

Being Stanley Baxter

Movie • 2025

Self

This is Stanley Baxter

Movie • 2001

Self

Treasure Trekkers

Movie

(voice)

Kiloran Bay

Movie

One Night Out with Alan Cumming

Movie • 2026

Host

The High Life

TV • 1994

Sebastian Flight

The Tony Danza Show

TV • 2004

Self - Guest

The Good Wife

TV • 2009

Eli Gold

EP Daily

TV • 1997

The One Show

TV • 2006

Self - Guest

The Daily Show

TV • 1996

Self

Shoebox Zoo

TV • 2004

Bruno the Bear (voice)

Taggart

TV • 1983

Schmigadoon!

TV • 2021

Mayor Aloysius Menlove

Web Junk 20

TV • 2006

Question Time

TV • 1979

Self - Panellist

The L Word

TV • 2004

Billie Blaikie

God, the Devil and Bob

TV • 2000

The Devil (voice)

8 Out of 10 Cats

TV • 2005

Self

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

TV • 2007

Chuck Masters (voice)

Prodigal Son

TV • 2019

Simon Hoxley

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

TV • 1993

Self - Guest

Tin Man

TV • 2007

Glitch

Urban Secrets

TV • 2012

V Graham Norton

TV • 2002

Self

Broad City

TV • 2014

Alan Cumming

Carpool Karaoke: The Series

TV • 2017

Self

Playing It Straight

TV • 2005

Narrator (voice)

The Runaway

TV • 2011

Desrae

Saturday Night Live

TV • 1975

Self - Host

TV • 2012

Alan Cumming

Queers.

TV • 2017

Steve

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

Harmony - Demonic Feaster on Fear (voice)

Web Therapy

TV • 2008

Austen Clarke

Sex and the City

TV • 1998

Oscar

Helpsters

TV • 2019

Dancer Dave

Doctor Who

TV • 2005

King James

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

TV • 2014

Self

Schmigadoon!

TV • 2021

Dooley Blight

The Good Fight

TV • 2017

Eli Gold

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

TV • 1988

Self - Guest

Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes

TV • 2024

Self

The Traitors

TV • 2023

Self - Host

3rd Rock from the Sun

TV • 1996

Angus 'The Hole' McDuff

The Prince

TV • 2021

Owen

Real Time with Bill Maher

TV • 2003

Self

Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack

TV • 2008

Self - Hijacker

Screen Two

TV • 1985

Tulloch

Masterpiece Mystery

TV • 1980

Self - Host

Bubble Guppies

TV • 2011

The Glitch (voice)

TV • 1994

John Castaway (voice)

Rhona Who Lives by the River

Hamish

Have I Got News for You

TV • 1990

Self

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

TV • 2003

Self - Guest host

The Emmy Awards

TV • 1949

Self

Late Night with Seth Meyers

TV • 2014

Self - Guest

The Mighty Nein

TV • 2025

Gustav (voice)

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

TV • 2003

Self - Guest

Screen Two

TV • 1985

Andy

Tip Toe

Leo