Alan Cumming

Born

January 27, 1965 (60 years old)

Known For

Acting

Place of Birth

Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK

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

7.0

GoldenEye

Drive Back Home

Perley

6.5

2024

Genie

Flaxman

6.6

2023

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Narrator (voice)

6.4

2023

Rare Objects

Peter Kessler

4.3

2023

Marlowe

Lou Hendricks

5.8

2023

Ooh the Banter!

Self (archive footage)

0.0

2022

My Father's Dragon

Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)

7.1

2022

Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza!

Self - Host

2.7

2022

Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men

Therapist

1.7

2022

My Old School

Brandon Lee

7.1

2022

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

Narrator (voice)

0.0

2021

Endgame & Rough for Theatre II

B / Hamm

0.0

2020

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

Narrator (voice)

7.1

2018

Show Dogs

Dante (voice)

6.0

2018

Always at The Carlyle

Self

6.8

2018

Michael Jackson's Halloween

Meriwether (voice)

7.8

2017

Battle of the Sexes

Ted Tinling

6.8

2017

Queer as Art

Self

4.0

2017

After Louie

Sam Cooper

5.1

2017

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

Self (voice)

6.6

2017

Hurricane Bianca

Lawrence Taylor

6.1

2016

Strange Magic

Bog King (voice)

7.1

2015

Chu and Blossom

Uncle

4.0

2014

Muse of Fire

Self

6.5

2013

The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow

Gutsy Smurf (voice)

6.8

2013

The Smurfs 2

Gutsy Smurf (voice)

5.7

2013

Almost in Love

Hayden

5.8

2013

Maladies

Alan

5.3

2012

Sir Billi

Gordon the Goat (voice)

3.2

2012

The Outback

Bog (voice)

5.6

2012

The Smurfs

Gutsy Smurf (voice)

5.8

2011

The Money Pet

The Narrator (voice)

0.0

2011

Burlesque

Alexis

7.2

2010

Jackboots on Whitehall

Hitler (voice)

5.0

2010

The Tempest

Sebastian

5.4

2010

Riverworld

Judas Caretaker

4.7

2010

It's Complicated

TV Actor (uncredited)

6.5

2009

Dare

Grant Matson

5.7

2009

The Real Cabaret

Self

10.0

2009

PoliWood

Self

6.5

2009

Boogie Woogie

Dewey Dalamanatousis

5.0

2009

Ptown Diaries

Narrator

0.0

2009

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

Chuck (voice)

5.7

2007

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

Self

7.2

2007

Suffering Man's Charity

John Vandermark

4.8

2007

Full Grown Men

The Hitchhiker

4.8

2006

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical

Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR

6.7

2006

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Self

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

Fegan Floop

5.6

2002

Searching for Debra Winger

Self (uncredited)

6.3

2002

Intimate Affairs

Sevy

4.6

2002

The Anniversary Party

Joe Therrian

5.7

2001

Josie and the Pussycats

Wyatt Frame

5.6

2001

Spy Kids

Fegan Floop

5.8

2001

For My Baby

Daniel Orgelbrand

1.5

2000

Get Carter

Jeremy Kinnear

5.2

2000

Loser

Alan Cumming / Emcee (uncredited)

5.4

2000

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged

4.8

2000

Company Man

General Batista

5.0

2000

Urbania

Brett

5.6

2000

Titus

Saturninus

6.5

1999

Annie

Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan

6.4

1999

Eyes Wide Shut

Desk Clerk

7.5

1999

Plunkett & MacLeane

Lord Rochester

6.1

1999

Spice World

Piers

4.9

1997

Buddy

Dick Croner

4.8

1997

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

Sandy Frink

6.2

1997

Bathtime

Wrigley

5.8

1997

Burn Your Phone

Andy

0.0

1996

Emma

Mr. Elton

6.7

1996

GoldenEye

Boris Grishenko

6.9

1995

Circle of Friends

Sean Walsh

6.3

1995

Second Best

Bernard

6.7

1994

Black Beauty

Black Beauty (voice)

6.7

1994

Tulloch

0.0

1992

Bernard and the Genie

Bernard Bottle

7.3

1991

Conquest of the South Pole

0.0

1989

Passing Glory

Rab

0.0

1986

The Diary

0.0

Death Do Us Part

0.0

Lunch Hour

0.0

Glenrothan

Donal

0.0

Avengers: Doomsday

Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

0.0

2026

A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole

self

0.0

2025

92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center

Self

0.0

2024

Sleazy Tiger

Alan Cumming

0.0

2024

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

(1 episode)

2.7

2022

Schmigadoon!

Mayor Aloysius Menlove · (6 episodes)

7.0

2021

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

Alan Cumming

10.0

2020

Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins

Self

0.0

2020

Prodigal Son

Simon Hoxley · (2 episodes)

8.1

2019

Tamron Hall

Self - Guest · (1 episode)

5.1

2019

Carpool Karaoke: The Series

Self · (1 episode)

5.8

2017

Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder

Self

2.5

2015

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self · (3 episodes)

5.3

2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

(1 episode)

5.9

2014

Broad City

Alan Cumming · (1 episode)

7.1

2014

Picasso Baby

Self

9.0

2013

Any Day Now

Rudy Donatello

7.0

2012

Urban Secrets

(10 episodes)

0.0

2012

The Runaway

Desrae · (6 episodes)

6.5

2011

The Good Wife

Eli Gold · (140 episodes)

7.6

2009

The Mystery of Claywoman

Jon Lauting Phd.

0.0

2009

Tin Man

Glitch · (3 episodes)

6.7

2007

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

Chuck Masters (voice) · (14 episodes)

7.0

2007

Gray Matters

Gordy

5.8

2007

The One Show

Self - Guest · (2 episodes)

4.5

2006

The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event

2004

The Tony Danza Show

Self - Guest · (2 episodes)

6.1

2004

The L Word

Billie Blaikie · (6 episodes)

7.6

2004

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

Self

6.5

2002

V Graham Norton

Self · (2 episodes)

5.0

2002

God, the Devil and Bob

The Devil (voice) · (13 episodes)

7.5

2000

EP Daily

(1 episode)

8.5

1997

The Daily Show

Self · (1 episode)

6.4

1996

Goldeneye: The Secret Files

Self

6.0

1995

GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast

Self

6.0

1995

The High Life

Sebastian Flight · (6 episodes)

4.5

1994

Butter

Ronnie

8.0

1994

Borges and Me

0.0

Run

Steve

0.0

V13

Sigmund Freud

0.0

Burnish (voice) · (10 episodes)

7.7

2022

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Self – Actor · (1 episode)

2.7

2022

Dead End: Paranormal Park

Harmony - Demonic Feaster on Fear (voice) · (2 episodes)

7.9

2022

Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland

Self · (7 episodes)

7.5

2021

The Prince

Owen · (12 episodes)

6.5

2021

Schmigadoon!

Dooley Blight · (6 episodes)

7.0

2021

Briarpatch

Clyde Brattle · (10 episodes)

6.9

2020

Helpsters

Dancer Dave · (1 episode)

5.0

2019

The Kelly Clarkson Show

(1 episode)

6.5

2019

Today with Hoda & Jenna

Self · (1 episode)

0.0

2019

Instinct

Dylan Reinhart · (24 episodes)

6.9

2018

Queers.

Steve · (1 episode)

6.0

2017

Queers.

(8 episodes)

6.0

2017

The Good Fight

Eli Gold · (2 episodes)

7.6

2017

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self · (1 episode)

6.4

2015

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Self · (2 episodes)

5.9

2014

The Outs

Alan Cumming · (3 episodes)

7.1

2012

Web Therapy

Austen Clarke · (10 episodes)

7.1

2011

Bubble Guppies

The Glitch (voice) · (1 episode)

7.6

2011

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Self - Guest · (5 episodes)

Rupert (voice) · (1 episode)

7.0

2007

The Graham Norton Show

Self · (3 episodes)

7.2

2007

Me, Eloise

(voice) · (1 episode)

10.0

2006

Doctor Who

King James · (1 episode)

7.6

2005

Real Time with Bill Maher

Self · (1 episode)

6.0

2003

Through the Night with...

Self · (1 episode)

8.0

2002

Sex and the City

Oscar · (1 episode)

7.4

1998

3rd Rock from the Sun

Angus 'The Hole' McDuff · (1 episode)

7.5

1996

Gargoyles

John Castawa(voice) · (1 episode)

8.1

1994

Frasier

Ahmrit · (1 episode)

7.7

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest · (6 episodes)

7.2

1993

Rik Mayall Presents

Greg Deane · (1 episode)

7.3

1993

The Simpsons

Loki (voice) · (1 episode)

8.0

1989

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Self - Guest · (2 episodes)

5.6

1988

Screen Two

Tulloch · (1 episode)

6.8

1985

Taggart

(1 episode)

6.3

1983

Masterpiece Mystery

Self - Host · (941 episodes)

5.0

1980

Question Time

Self - Panellist · (1 episode)

5.5

1979

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host · (1 episode)

7.0

1975

Great Performances

Self · (1 episode)

5.3

1971

Tony Awards

Self - Presenter · (1 episode)

5.1

1956

Tony Awards

Self - Host · (1 episode)

5.1

1956