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 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.
222 acting credits · 5 directing credits
Acting · 222
The Simpsons
1989
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Doctor Who
2005
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Saturday Night Live
1975
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
The Good Wife
2009
Frasier
1993
Sex and the City
1998
The One Show
2006
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Great Performances
1971
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Good Fight
2017
Toy Story 5
2026
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996
Tony Awards
1956
The L Word
2004
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Have I Got News for You
1990
Gargoyles
1994
Doctor Who
2024
Tamron Hall
2019
8 Out of 10 Cats
2005
Screen Two
1985
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Bubble Guppies
2011
Prodigal Son
2019
Broad City
2014
Question Time
1979
Avengers: Doomsday
2026
V Graham Norton
2002
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Taggart
1983
Eyes Wide Shut
1999
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
Masterpiece Mystery
1980
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
The Traitors
2023
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019
The Mighty Nein
2025
Schmigadoon!
2021
GoldenEye
1995
Web Therapy
2008
Web Therapy
2011
Garfield
2004
ScreenPlay
1986
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003
Instinct
2018
Spy Kids
2001
Son of the Mask
2005
Shoebox Zoo
2004
The Smurfs
2011
The BAFTA Awards
1949
RoboGobo
2025
Through the Night with...
2002
Abominable and the Invisible City
2022
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002
Tin Man
2007
The Smurfs 2
2013
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
2007
Briarpatch
2020
Burlesque
2010
Helpsters
2019
The Emmy Awards
1949
God, the Devil and Bob
2000
Me, Eloise
2006
Queers.
2017
Dead End: Paranormal Park
2022
Travelling Man
1984
Boarders
2024
Rik Mayall Presents
1993
Doctor Who: Unleashed
2024
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
2000
It's Complicated
2009
Strange Magic
2015
Battle of the Sexes
2017
Web Junk 20
2006
The Prince
2021
Spice World
1997
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
1997
Get Carter
2000
The Runaway
2011
Emma
1996
Tip Toe
2026
Ghosts
1995
Black Beauty
1994
Josie and the Pussycats
2001
Loser
2000
Titus
1999
Marlowe
2023
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
2006
The High Life
1994
The Outs
2012
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021
Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack
2008
Nicholas Nickleby
2002
Cabaret
1993
Plunkett & Macleane
1999
Genie
2023
My Father's Dragon
2022
The Tempest
2010
Playing It Straight
2005
My Happy Place
2025
The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
2013
Annie
1999
Always at The Carlyle
2018
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
Rare Objects
2023
Rhona Who Lives by the River
—
Hurricane Bianca
2016
Glenrothan
2026
Boogie Woogie
2010
Buddy
1997
Chimp Crazy
2024
Show Dogs
2018
Circle of Friends
1995
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006
The Outback
2012
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002
Any Day Now
2012
92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center
2024
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
Michael Jackson's Halloween
2017
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
Dare
2009
PoliWood
2009
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
2003
Gray Matters
2007
Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes
2024
Intimate Affairs
2002
The Diary
—
All Aboard! Scotland's Poshest Train
2024
Company Man
2000
Sweet Land
2005
Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
2022
Neverwas
2005
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
Urbania
2000
Urban Secrets
2012
The Anniversary Party
2001
Second Best
1994
Paris & Nicole: The Encore
2024
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
1993
Drive Back Home
2024
Sir Billi
2012
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
2023
Ripley Under Ground
2005
Muse of Fire
2013
Queer as Art
2017
Bernard and the Genie
1991
X2 Global Webcast Highlights
2003
Being Stanley Baxter
2025
Riverworld
2010
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
2017
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
2007
Kiloran Bay
2026
The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
2006
Suffering Man's Charity
2007
Maladies
2012
Borges and Me
—
Eighteen
2005
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
1995
Becoming Men
2002
After Louie
2017
Butter
1994
The Goodbye Girl
2004
Bam Bam and Celeste
2005
One Night Out with Alan Cumming
2026
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
2009
The Money Pet
2011
Bad Blood
2005
Chu and Blossom
2014
My Old School
2022
Lunch Hour
—
Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder
2015
Masterpiece Mystery!
2008
Ooh the Banter!
2022
X2
2003
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
1995
Picasso Baby
2013
Untitled Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Sequel
—
The Last Romantics
1992
For My Baby
2000
V13
2025
Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
2020
Club Cumming
2026
Full Grown Men
2006
Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza!
2022
Bathtime
1997
Prague
1992
Death Do Us Part
—
Almost in Love
2013
EP Daily
1997
Run
—
The Naturalized
—
Dread Poets' Society
1992
Conquest of the South Pole
1989
Treasure Trekkers
—
That Sunday
1994
Burn Your Phone
1996
The Airzone Solution
1993
The Mystery of Claywoman
2009
The Traitors
—
Ptown Diaries
2009
This is Stanley Baxter
2001
A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole
2025
FX2: Visual Effects
2003
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
2021
Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins
2020
Sleazy Tiger
2025
The Real Cabaret
2009
Motherfucker: A Movie
2006
Passing Glory
1986
Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler!
2003