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Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming

Birthday: 1965-01-27 | 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Cumming, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Sleazy Tiger

as    Alan Cumming

2025
RoboGobo

as    Dame Luxley (voice)

2025
Glenrothan

as    Donal

2025
My Happy Place

as    Self

2025
V13

as    Sigmund Freud

2024
Paris & Nicole: The Encore

as    Narrator

2024
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

as    Narrator (voice)

2024
Drive Back Home

as    Perley

2024
2024
Chimp Crazy

as    Self

2024
All Aboard! Scotland's Poshest Train

as    Self - Host

2023
Genie

as    Flaxman

2023
Marlowe

as    Lou Hendricks

2023
Rare Objects

as    Peter Kessler

2023
The Traitors

as    Self - Host

2022
My Old School

as    Brandon Lee

2022
My Father's Dragon

as    Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)

2022
Ooh the Banter!

as    Self (archive footage)

2021
Schmigadoon!

as    Dooley Blight

2021
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

as    Narrator (voice)

2021
The Prince

as    Owen

2021
2020
Endgame & Rough for Theatre II

as    B / Hamm

2020
Briarpatch

as    Clyde Brattle

2018
Instinct

as    Dylan Reinhart