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Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming

Acting1965Aberfeldy, 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.

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Acting History

2026
Avengers: Doomsday
as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
2025
Great Performances
TVas Self2 eps
RoboGobo
TVas Dame Luxley (voice)50 eps
The Mighty Nein
TVas Gustav (voice)1 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TVas Self1 eps
Doctor Who
TVas Mr Ring-a-Ding (voice)1 eps
2024
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TVas Self – Actor1 eps
Paris & Nicole: The Encore
TVas Narrator3 eps
2023
Marlowe
as Lou Hendricks
Genie
as Flaxman
Rare Objects
as Peter Kessler
The Traitors
TVas Self - Host47 eps
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
TVas Self1 eps
Schmigadoon!
TVas Dooley Blight6 eps
2022
My Old School
as Brandon Lee
My Father's Dragon
as Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)
Dead End: Paranormal Park
TVas Harmony - Demonic Feaster on Fear (voice)2 eps
The Good Fight
TVas Eli Gold2 eps
Bubble Guppies
TVas The Glitch (voice)1 eps
Abominable and the Invisible City
TVas Burnish (voice)10 eps
2021
The Simpsons
TVas Loki (voice)1 eps
The Prince
TVas Owen
Prodigal Son
TVas Simon Hoxley2 eps
Tamron Hall
TVas Self - Guest1 eps
2020
Briarpatch
TVas Clyde Brattle
2019
Broad City
TVas Alan Cumming1 eps
2018
Show Dogs
as Dante (voice)
Instinct
TVas Dylan Reinhart24 eps
Doctor Who
TVas King James1 eps
Instinct
TVExecutive Producer
2017
Michael Jackson's Halloween
as Meriwether (voice)
Battle of the Sexes
as Ted Tinling
The Graham Norton Show
TVas Self3 eps
Queers.
TVas Steve
2016
Hurricane Bianca
as Lawrence Taylor
2015
Strange Magic
as Bog King (voice)
Tony Awards
TVas Self - Presenter / Self - Host1 eps
2013
The Smurfs 2
as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
2012
The Outback
as Bog (voice)
Any Day Now
as Rudy Donatello
Sir Billi
as Gordon the Goat (voice)
2011
The Smurfs
as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
Web Therapy
TVas Austen Clarke10 eps
2010
Boogie Woogie
as Dewey Dalamanatousis
Burlesque
as Alexis
Riverworld
as Judas Caretaker
The Tempest
as Sebastian
Who Do You Think You Are?
TVas Self1 eps
The Good Wife
TVas Eli Gold140 eps
2009
Dare
as Grant Matson
It's Complicated
as TV Actor (uncredited)
Web Therapy
TVas Austen Clarke4 eps
Through the Night with...
TVas Self1 eps
The One Show
TVas Self - Guest1 eps
Real Time with Bill Maher
TVas Self1 eps
2008
Masterpiece Mystery
TVas Self - Host291 eps
2007
Gray Matters
as Gordy
Tin Man
TVas Glitch
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
TVas Chuck Masters (voice) / Zeke (voice) / Chuck (voice) / Rupert (voice)
8 Out of 10 Cats
TVas Self2 eps
2006
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
as Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR
Me, Eloise
TVas (voice)
The L Word
TVas Billie Blaikie6 eps
2005
Neverwas
as Jake
Eighteen
as Father Chris
Sweet Land
as Frandsen
Bad Blood
as Davie Mitchell
Ripley Under Ground
as Jeff Constant
The Tony Danza Show
TVas Self - Guest2 eps
Sweet Land
Producer
2004
Garfield
as Persnikitty (voice)
Shoebox Zoo
TVas Bruno the Bear (voice)26 eps
2003
X2
as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
Frasier
TVas Ahmrit1 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TVas Self - Guest host / Self - Guest
2002
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self (uncredited)
Nicholas Nickleby
as Mr. Folair
V Graham Norton
TVas Self2 eps
2001
Spy Kids
as Fegan Floop
Sex and the City
TVas Oscar1 eps
2000
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
as The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged
Loser
as Alan Cumming / Emcee (uncredited)
Company Man
as General Batista
For My Baby
as Daniel Orgelbrand
Get Carter
as Jeremy Kinnear
Urbania
as Brett
3rd Rock from the Sun
TVas Angus 'The Hole' McDuff1 eps
God, the Devil and Bob
TVas The Devil (voice)
1999
Eyes Wide Shut
as Desk Clerk
Titus
as Saturninus
Annie
as Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan
Plunkett & MacLeane
as Lord Rochester
1996
Emma
as Mr. Elton
Gargoyles
TVas John Castaway (voice)1 eps
1995
GoldenEye
as Boris Grishenko
Circle of Friends
as Sean Walsh
Have I Got News for You
TVas Self1 eps
The High Life
TVas Sebastian Flight6 eps
The High Life
TVWriter5 eps
1994
Butter
as Ronnie
Second Best
as Bernard
Black Beauty
as Black Beauty (voice)
Butter
Director
Butter
Writer
The High Life
TVCreator
1993
1992
Screen Two
TVas Tulloch / Andy1 eps
1991
Bernard and the Genie
as Bernard Bottle
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TVas Self - Guest
1985
Screen Two
TVDirector
1979
Question Time
TVas Self - Panellist
1975
Saturday Night Live
TVas Self - Host

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1/27/1965(61 years old)
Place of Birth
Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK