
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.
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Acting History
2026
Avengers: Doomsday as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
2025The Mighty Nein as Gustav (voice)
2025Glenrothan as Donal
2025Sleazy Tiger as Alan Cumming
2025A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole as self
2025My Happy Place as Self
2025V13 as Sigmund Freud
2025RoboGobo as Dame Luxley (voice)
2024Paris & Nicole: The Encore as Narrator
202492nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center as Self
2024All Aboard! Scotland's Poshest Train as Self - Host
2024Drive Back Home as Perley
2024Chimp Crazy as Self
2024Doctor Who as Mr Ring-a-Ding (voice)
2024Doctor Who: Unleashed as Self
2024Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes as Self
2023Genie as Flaxman
2023Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story as Narrator (voice)
2023Rare Objects as Peter Kessler
2023Marlowe as Lou Hendricks
2023The Traitors as Self - Host
2022Ooh the Banter! as Self (archive footage)
2022My Father's Dragon as Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)
2022Abominable and the Invisible City as Burnish (voice)
2022Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Actor
2022Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza! as Self - Host
2022Dead End: Paranormal Park as Harmony - Demonic Feaster on Fear (voice)
2022Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men as Therapist
2022My Old School as Brandon Lee
2021The Nutcracker and the Mouse King as Narrator (voice)
2021Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland as Self
2021The Prince as Owen
2021Schmigadoon! as Mayor Aloysius Menlove
2021Schmigadoon! as Dooley Blight
2020The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America as Alan Cumming
2020Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins as Self
2020Endgame & Rough for Theatre II as B / Hamm
2020Briarpatch as Clyde Brattle
2019Helpsters as Dancer Dave
2019Prodigal Son as Simon Hoxley
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
2019Today with Hoda & Jenna as Self
2018They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Narrator (voice)
2018Show Dogs as Dante (voice)
2018Always at The Carlyle as Self
2018Instinct as Dylan Reinhart
2017Michael Jackson's Halloween as Meriwether (voice)
2017Battle of the Sexes as Ted Tinling
2017Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
2017Queers. as Steve
2017Queers.
2017Queer as Art as Self
2017After Louie as Sam Cooper
2017The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin as Self (voice)
2017The Good Fight as Eli Gold
2016Hurricane Bianca as Lawrence Taylor
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder as Self
2015Strange Magic as Bog King (voice)
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2014Chu and Blossom as Uncle
2014Broad City as Alan Cumming
2013Muse of Fire as Self
2013The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
2013Picasso Baby as Self
2013The Smurfs 2 as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
2013Almost in Love as Hayden
2012Any Day Now as Rudy Donatello
2012Urban Secrets
2012Maladies as Alan
2012Sir Billi as Gordon the Goat (voice)
2012The Outs as Alan Cumming
2012The Outback as Bog (voice)
2011The Smurfs as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
2011Web Therapy as Austen Clarke
2011The Runaway as Desrae
2011Bubble Guppies as The Glitch (voice)
2011The Money Pet as The Narrator (voice)
2010Burlesque as Alexis
2010Jackboots on Whitehall as Hitler (voice)
2010The Tempest as Sebastian
2010Riverworld as Judas Caretaker
2010Boogie Woogie as Dewey Dalamanatousis
2009It's Complicated as TV Actor (uncredited)
2009Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
2009Dare as Grant Matson
2009The Real Cabaret as Self
2009The Good Wife as Eli Gold
2009The Mystery of Claywoman as Jon Lauting Phd.
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2009PoliWood as Self
2009Ptown Diaries as Narrator
2008Web Therapy as Austen Clarke
2008Masterpiece Mystery! as Self - Host
2008Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack as Self - Hijacker
2007Tin Man as Glitch
2007Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Chuck Masters (voice)
2007Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Zeke (voice)
2007Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Chuck (voice)
2007Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Rupert (voice)
2007Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World as Chuck (voice)
2007ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway as Self
2007Suffering Man's Charity as John Vandermark
2007Gray Matters as Gordy
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006Me, Eloise as (voice)
2006The One Show as Self - Guest
2006The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
2006Full Grown Men as The Hitchhiker
2006Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical as Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR
2006Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema as Self
2006Web Junk 20
2006MOFO NYC as Self
2005Ripley Under Ground as Jeff Constant
2005Sweet Land as Frandsen
2005Bam Bam and Celeste as Eugene
2005Neverwas as Jake
20058 Out of 10 Cats as Self
2005Bad Blood as Davie Mitchell
2005Playing It Straight as Narrator (voice)
2005Doctor Who as King James
2005Son of the Mask as Loki
2005Eighteen as Father Chris
2004Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2004Shoebox Zoo as Bruno the Bear (voice)
2004The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
2004Garfield as Persnikitty (voice)
2004The L Word as Billie Blaikie
2004The Goodbye Girl as Mark Bodine
2003Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler! as Himself
2003The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2'
2003FX2: Visual Effects as Self
2003X2 Global Webcast Highlights as Self
2003Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over as Fegan Floop
2003X2 as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
2003Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest host
2002Nicholas Nickleby as Mr. Folair
2002Becoming Men
2002Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams as Fegan Floop
2002Searching for Debra Winger as Self (uncredited)
2002AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories as Self
2002Through the Night with... as Self
2002V Graham Norton as Self
2002Intimate Affairs as Sevy
2001The Anniversary Party as Joe Therrian
2001Josie and the Pussycats as Wyatt Frame
2001Spy Kids as Fegan Floop
2000For My Baby as Daniel Orgelbrand
2000Get Carter as Jeremy Kinnear
2000Loser as Alan Cumming / Emcee (uncredited)
2000The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas as The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged
2000Company Man as General Batista
2000God, the Devil and Bob as The Devil (voice)
2000Urbania as Brett
1999Titus as Saturninus
1999Annie as Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan
1999Eyes Wide Shut as Desk Clerk
1999Plunkett & MacLeane as Lord Rochester
1998Sex and the City as Oscar
1997Spice World as Piers
1997EP Daily
1997Buddy as Dick Croner
1997Romy and Michele's High School Reunion as Sandy Frink
1997Bathtime as Wrigley
1996Burn Your Phone as Andy
1996Emma as Mr. Elton
1996The Daily Show as Self
19963rd Rock from the Sun as Angus 'The Hole' McDuff
1995Goldeneye: The Secret Files as Self
1995GoldenEye as Boris Grishenko
1995Circle of Friends as Sean Walsh
1995GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast as Self
1994Gargoyles as John Castaway (voice)
1994Second Best as Bernard
1994Black Beauty as Black Beauty (voice)
1994The High Life as Sebastian Flight
1994Butter as Ronnie
1994That Sunday
1993Cabaret as Emcee
1993Frasier as Ahmrit
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love as Greg Deane
1993Rik Mayall Presents as Greg Deane
1993The Airzone Solution as MacNamara
1992Dread Poets' Society as Shelley
1992Prague as Alexander Novak
1992The Last Romantics as Tulloch
1991Bernard and the Genie as Bernard Bottle
1990Have I Got News for You as Self
1989The Simpsons as Loki (voice)
1989Conquest of the South Pole
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1986Passing Glory as Rab
1985Screen Two as Tulloch
1983Taggart
1980Masterpiece Mystery as Self - Host
1979Question Time as Self - Panellist
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1971Great Performances as Self
1956Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1956Tony Awards as Self - Host
1949The Emmy Awards as Self
—Lunch Hour
—Death Do Us Part
—Borges and Me
—Rhona Who Lives by the River as Hamish
—The Diary
—Run as Steve
—Untitled Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Sequel as Sandy Frink
—The Naturalized as Self








