Alan Cumming
Known for Acting · 222 credits
- Born
- 1965-01-27 (age 61)
- Place of birth
- Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as
- Alan Cummings
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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Known For
TV Shows (88)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
The Simpsons
1989
as Loki (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self / Self - Guest
Doctor Who
2005
as King James
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self
The Good Wife
2009
as Eli Gold
Frasier
1993
as Ahmrit
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
as Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest Host
Sex and the City
1998
as Oscar
The One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
Have I Got News for You
1990
as Self
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
The Good Fight
2017
as Eli Gold
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996
as Angus 'The Hole' McDuff
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Self - Presenter
8 Out of 10 Cats
2005
as Self
The L Word
2004
as Billie Blaikie
Tamron Hall
2019
as Self - Guest
Gargoyles
1994
as John Castaway (voice)
Doctor Who
2024
as Mr Ring-a-Ding (voice)
Question Time
1979
as Self - Panellist
Masterpiece Mystery
1980
as Self - Host
The Tony Danza Show
2004
as Self - Guest
Screen Two
1985
as Tulloch / Andy / Alexander Novak
Bubble Guppies
2011
as The Glitch (voice)
Prodigal Son
2019
as Simon Hoxley
Broad City
2014
as Alan Cumming
V Graham Norton
2002
as Self
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self
Taggart
1983
as Jamie McCormack
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self – Actor
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
as Self
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019
as Self
The Traitors
2023
as Self - Host
Schmigadoon!
2021
as Mayor Aloysius Menlove / Dooley Blight
The Mighty Nein
2025
as Gustav (voice)
Web Therapy
2008
as Austen Clarke
The BAFTA Awards
1949
as Host
ScreenPlay
1986
as Percy Bysshe Shelley
Instinct
2018
as Dylan Reinhart
Web Therapy
2011
as Austen Clarke
Through the Night with...
2002
as Self
RoboGobo
2025
as Dame Luxley (voice)
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
2007
as Chuck Masters (voice) / Zeke (voice) / Chuck (voice) / Rupert (voice)
Shoebox Zoo
2004
as Bruno the Bear (voice)
Briarpatch
2020
as Clyde Brattle
Abominable and the Invisible City
2022
as Burnish (voice)
Dead End: Paranormal Park
2022
as Harmony - Demonic Feaster on Fear (voice)
Tip Toe
2026
as Leo
The Emmy Awards
1949
as Self
Tin Man
2007
as Glitch
Movies (134)
Toy Story 5
2026
as Evil Bullseye (voice)
Avengers: Doomsday
2026
as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
Eyes Wide Shut
1999
as Desk Clerk
GoldenEye
1995
as Boris Grishenko
Garfield
2004
as Persnikitty (voice)
The Smurfs
2011
as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003
as Fegan Floop
Spy Kids
2001
as Fegan Floop
Son of the Mask
2005
as Loki
Burlesque
2010
as Alexis
The Smurfs 2
2013
as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002
as Fegan Floop
Titus
1999
as Saturninus
It's Complicated
2009
as TV Actor (uncredited)
Strange Magic
2015
as Bog King (voice)
Battle of the Sexes
2017
as Ted Tinling
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
2000
as The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged
Spice World
1997
as Piers
Marlowe
2023
as Lou Hendricks
Get Carter
2000
as Jeremy Kinnear
Nicholas Nickleby
2002
as Mr. Folair
Loser
2000
as Alan Cumming / Emcee (uncredited)
Emma
1996
as Mr. Elton
Black Beauty
1994
as Black Beauty (voice)
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
1997
as Sandy Frink
Boogie Woogie
2010
as Dewey Dalamanatousis
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
2006
as Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR
Josie and the Pussycats
2001
as Wyatt Frame
Show Dogs
2018
as Dante (voice)
Glenrothan
2026
as Donal
Annie
1999
as Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan
Genie
2023
as Flaxman
Company Man
2000
as General Batista
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006
as Self
Cabaret
1993
as Emcee
Buddy
1997
as Dick Croner
Plunkett & Macleane
1999
as Lord Rochester
Dare
2009
as Grant Matson
The Tempest
2010
as Sebastian
Hurricane Bianca
2016
as Lawrence Taylor
Always at The Carlyle
2018
as Self
My Father's Dragon
2022
as Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)
The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
2013
as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
The Outback
2012
as Bog (voice)
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018
as Narrator (voice)
Intimate Affairs
2002
as Sevy
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002
as Self
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
as Hitler (voice)
Neverwas
2005
as Jake
Sir Billi
2012
as Gordon the Goat (voice)
The Anniversary Party
2001
as Joe Therrian
Sweet Land
2005
as Frandsen
PoliWood
2009
as Self
Any Day Now
2012
as Rudy Donatello
Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Gray Matters
2007
as Gordy
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self (uncredited)
X2 Global Webcast Highlights
2003
as Self
Michael Jackson's Halloween
2017
as Meriwether (voice)
Urbania
2000
as Brett
Circle of Friends
1995
as Sean Walsh
Queer as Art
2017
as Self
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
as Self
The Goodbye Girl
2004
as Mark Bodine
Rare Objects
2023
as Peter Kessler
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
as Alan Cumming
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
2009
Being Stanley Baxter
2025
as Self
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
2023
as Narrator (voice)
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
2003
as Self
Ripley Under Ground
2005
as Jeff Constant
Suffering Man's Charity
2007
as John Vandermark
Second Best
1994
as Bernard
The Diary
Butter
1994
as Ronnie
Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
2022
as Therapist
92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center
2024
as Self
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
1995
as Self
Bernard and the Genie
1991
as Bernard Bottle
Eighteen
2005
as Father Chris
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
2017
as Self (voice)
Drive Back Home
2024
as Perley
Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder
2015
as Self
My Old School
2022
as Brandon Lee
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
1993
as Greg Deane
Lunch Hour
The Airzone Solution
1993
as MacNamara
After Louie
2017
as Sam Cooper
Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins
2020
as Self
Kiloran Bay
2026
as Torquil
The Mystery of Claywoman
2009
as Jon Lauting Phd.
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
2007
as Chuck (voice)
The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
2006
Riverworld
2010
as Judas Caretaker
Bam Bam and Celeste
2005
as Eugene
Burn Your Phone
1996
as Andy
Picasso Baby
2013
as Self
V13
2025
as Sigmund Freud
Dread Poets' Society
1992
as Shelley
X2
2003
as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
1995
as Self
One Night Out with Alan Cumming
2026
as Host
Maladies
2012
as Alan
That Sunday
1994
The Last Romantics
1992
as Tulloch
Chu and Blossom
2014
as Uncle
Borges and Me
Bad Blood
2005
as Davie Mitchell
A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole
2025
as self
Prague
1992
as Alexander Novak
Conquest of the South Pole
1989
Full Grown Men
2006
as The Hitchhiker
Almost in Love
2013
as Hayden
Untitled Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Sequel
as Sandy Frink
Passing Glory
1986
as Rab
Becoming Men
2002
Ooh the Banter!
2022
as Self (archive footage)
For My Baby
2000
as Daniel Orgelbrand
The Naturalized
as Self
Sleazy Tiger
2025
as Alan Cumming
About Alan Cumming
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 f… With 222 credits spanning from 1949 to 2026, Alan Cumming has appeared in 134 films and 88 TV shows.
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- Toy Story 5 (2026) — as Evil Bullseye (voice)
- Avengers: Doomsday (2026) — as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999) — as Desk Clerk
- GoldenEye (1995) — as Boris Grishenko
- Garfield (2004) — as Persnikitty (voice)
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