Alan Cumming
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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.
Known for
Credits
Toy Story 5 (2026)
as Evil Bullseye (voice)
Avengers: Doomsday (2026)
as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
as Desk Clerk
Spy Kids (2001)
as Fegan Floop
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
as Fegan Floop
The Smurfs (2011)
as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
The Smurfs 2 (2013)
as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
as Fegan Floop
GoldenEye (1995)
as Boris Grishenko
Garfield (2004)
as Persnikitty (voice)
Glenrothan (2026)
as Donal
It's Complicated (2009)
as TV Actor (uncredited)
Son of the Mask (2005)
as Loki
Planet 51 (2009)
as Alien Mailman (voice)
Show Dogs (2018)
as Dante (voice)
Burlesque (2010)
as Alexis
Battle of the Sexes (2017)
as Ted Tinling
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
as Wyatt Frame
Get Carter (2000)
as Jeremy Kinnear
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
as The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged
Strange Magic (2015)
as Bog King (voice)
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
as Sandy Frink
Cabaret (1993)
as Emcee
Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
as Lord Rochester
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
as Mr. Folair
One Night Out with Alan Cumming (2026)
as Host
Les Parfait(s) : Arnaques en Famille (2026)
as Sean Mac Callaghan
Emma (1996)
as Mr. Elton
Titus (1999)
as Saturninus
Genie (2023)
as Flaxman
The Outback (2012)
as Bog (voice)
Spice World (1997)
as Piers
Loser (2000)
as Alan Cumming / Emcee (uncredited)
Black Beauty (1994)
as Black Beauty (voice)
Circle of Friends (1995)
as Sean Walsh
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2006)
as Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR
Marlowe (2023)
as Lou Hendricks
Motherfucker: A Movie (2006)
as Self
Jackboots on Whitehall (2010)
as Hitler / Braveheart (voice)
My Father's Dragon (2022)
as Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)
Ripley Under Ground (2005)
as Jeff Constant
Kiloran Bay (2026)
as Torquil
The Anniversary Party (2001)
as Joe Therrian
Being Stanley Baxter (2025)
as Self
The Tempest (2010)
as Sebastian
Boogie Woogie (2010)
as Dewey Dalamanatousis
The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow (2013)
as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
Annie (1999)
as Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan
Intimate Affairs (2002)
as Sevy
Second Best (1994)
as Bernard
Always at The Carlyle (2018)
as Self
Sleazy Tiger (2025)
as Alan Cumming
The Goodbye Girl (2004)
as Mark Bodine
Any Day Now (2012)
as Rudy Donatello
Buddy (1997)
as Dick Croner
Treasure Trekkers (—)
as (voice)
Sweet Land (2005)
as Frandsen
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story (2023)
as Narrator (voice)
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)
as Self
Suffering Man's Charity (2007)
as John Vandermark
Neverwas (2005)
as Jake
Muse of Fire (2013)
as Self
Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
as Self (uncredited)
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)
as Narrator (voice)
PoliWood (2009)
as Self
Gray Matters (2007)
as Gordy
Full Grown Men (2006)
as The Hitchhiker
Dare (2009)
as Grant Matson
Chu and Blossom (2014)
as Uncle
Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler! (2003)
as Himself
Hurricane Bianca (2016)
as Lawrence Taylor
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast (1995)
as Self
Goldeneye: The Secret Files (1995)
as Self
Riverworld (2010)
as Judas Caretaker
Bam Bam and Celeste (2005)
as Eugene
The Airzone Solution (1993)
as MacNamara
Michael Jackson's Halloween (2017)
as Meriwether (voice)
Romy and Michele 2 (—)
as Sandy Frink
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (2017)
as Self (voice)
Company Man (2000)
as General Batista
Paw Prints and Baby Steps: On the Set of “Son of The Mask” (2005)
as Self
That Sunday (1994)
Actor
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World (2007)
as Chuck (voice)
Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder (2015)
as Self
V13 (2025)
as Sigmund Freud
Picasso Baby (2013)
as Self
Death Do Us Part (—)
Actor
Conquest of the South Pole (1989)
Actor
FX2: Visual Effects (2003)
as Self
Ptown Diaries (2009)
as Narrator
Bathtime (1997)
as Wrigley
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love (1993)
as Greg Deane
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)
as Self
The Last Romantics (1992)
as Tulloch
Urbania (2000)
as Brett
Rare Objects (2023)
as Peter Kessler
Burn Your Phone (1996)
as Andy
Dread Poets' Society (1992)
as Shelley
Passing Glory (1986)
as Rab
Digital Diapers and Dog Bytes: Creating “Son of The Mask” (2005)
as Self
X2 Global Webcast Highlights (2003)
as Self
Bernard and the Genie (1991)
as Bernard Bottle
Sir Billi (2012)
as Gordon the Goat (voice)
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV (2009)
Actor
Butter (1994)
as Ronnie
Drive Back Home (2024)
as Perley
After Louie (2017)
as Sam Cooper
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2 (2003)
as Self
92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center (2024)
as Self
The Diary (—)
Actor
The Mystery of Claywoman (2009)
as Jon Lauting Phd.
My Old School (2022)
as Brandon Lee
The Naturalized (—)
as Self
Almost in Love (2013)
as Hayden
Borges and Me (—)
Actor
The Real Cabaret (2009)
as Self
Ooh the Banter! (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
This is Stanley Baxter (2001)
as Self
Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins (2020)
as Self
For My Baby (2000)
as Daniel Orgelbrand
Run (—)
as Steve
The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event (2006)
Actor
Maladies (2012)
as Alan
X2 (2003)
as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
Endgame & Rough for Theatre II (2020)
as B / Hamm
Queer as Art (2017)
as Self
Becoming Men (2002)
Actor
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories (2002)
as Self
Eighteen (2005)
as Father Chris
Prague (1992)
as Alexander Novak
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America (2020)
as Alan Cumming
A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole (2025)
as self
Lunch Hour (—)
Actor
Bad Blood (2005)
as Davie Mitchell
Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men (2022)
as Therapist
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (2021)
as Narrator (voice)
The Money Pet (2011)
as The Narrator (voice)
Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza! (2022)
as Self - Host