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.
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Toy Story 5
2026 · Evil Bullseye (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
The Simpsons
1989 · Loki (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Host
Doctor Who
2005 · King James
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Self
The Good Wife
2009 · Eli Gold
Avengers: Doomsday
2026 · Kurt Wagner / Nightcra...
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Self
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 · Self - Guest
Frasier
1993 · Ahmrit
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Guest Host
Great Performances
1971 · Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Self - Guest
The One Show
2006 · Self - Guest
Sex and the City
1998 · Oscar
Have I Got News for You
1990 · Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
Question Time
1979 · Self - Panellist
The Good Fight
2017 · Eli Gold
Masterpiece Mystery
1980 · Self - Host
Tamron Hall
2019 · Self - Guest
Screen Two
1985 · Tulloch
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996 · Angus 'The Hole' McDuf...
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004 · Self
Doctor Who
2024 · Mr Ring-a-Ding (voice)
Bubble Guppies
2011 · The Glitch (voice)
The L Word
2004 · Billie Blaikie
Prodigal Son
2019 · Simon Hoxley
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
Broad City
2014 · Alan Cumming
8 Out of 10 Cats
2005 · Self
V Graham Norton
2002 · Self
Gargoyles
1994 · John Castaway (voice)
Eyes Wide Shut
1999 · Desk Clerk
ScreenPlay
1986 · Percy Bysshe Shelley
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017 · Self
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019 · Self
Taggart
1983 · Jamie McCormack
The BAFTA Awards
1949 · Host
The Mighty Nein
2025 · Gustav (voice)
Through the Night with...
2002 · Self
The Traitors
2023 · Self - Host
Schmigadoon!
2021 · Mayor Aloysius Menlove
Web Therapy
2008 · Austen Clarke
RoboGobo
2025 · Dame Luxley (voice)
The Smurfs
2011 · Gutsy Smurf (voice)
Spy Kids
2001 · Fegan Floop
GoldenEye
1995 · Boris Grishenko
Web Therapy
2011 · Austen Clarke
Instinct
2018 · Dylan Reinhart
Garfield
2004 · Persnikitty (voice)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003 · Fegan Floop
Dead End: Paranormal Park
2022 · Harmony - Demonic Feas...
Tip Toe
2026 · Leo Struthers
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002 · Fegan Floop
Son of the Mask
2005 · Loki
Planet 51
2009 · Alien Mailman (voice)
Tin Man
2007 · Glitch
Boarders
2024 · Alan
The Smurfs 2
2013 · Gutsy Smurf (voice)
Shoebox Zoo
2004 · Bruno the Bear (voice)
God, the Devil and Bob
2000 · The Devil (voice)
Helpsters
2019 · Dancer Dave
The Emmy Awards
1949 · Self
Abominable and the Invisible City
2022 · Burnish (voice)
Travelling Man
1984 · Jamie
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
2007 · Chuck Masters (voice)
The Prince
2021 · Owen
Me, Eloise
2006 · (voice)
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
2000 · The Great Gazoo / Mick...
It's Complicated
2009 · TV Actor (uncredited)
Briarpatch
2020 · Clyde Brattle
Burlesque
2010 · Alexis
Show Dogs
2018 · Dante (voice)
Battle of the Sexes
2017 · Ted Tinling
Marlowe
2023 · Lou Hendricks
Glenrothan
2026 · Donal
Genie
2023 · Flaxman
Strange Magic
2015 · Bog King (voice)
The Outs
2012 · Alan Cumming
The Runaway
2011 · Desrae
Spice World
1997 · Piers
Les Parfait(s) : Arnaques en Famille
2026 · Sean Mac Callaghan
Doctor Who: Unleashed
2024 · Self
Emma
1996 · Mr. Elton
Cabaret
1993 · Emcee
Queers.
2017 · Steve
Get Carter
2000 · Jeremy Kinnear
Circle of Friends
1995 · Sean Walsh
Black Beauty
1994 · Black Beauty (voice)
Rik Mayall Presents
1993 · Greg Deane
Titus
1999 · Saturninus
Josie and the Pussycats
2001 · Wyatt Frame
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
1997 · Sandy Frink
My Father's Dragon
2022 · Cornelius the Crocodil...
The High Life
1994 · Sebastian Flight
Loser
2000 · Alan Cumming / Emcee (...
Plunkett & Macleane
1999 · Lord Rochester
Playing It Straight
2005 · Narrator (voice)
Being Stanley Baxter
2025 · Self
Nicholas Nickleby
2002 · Mr. Folair
Ghosts
1995 · Philip
Annie
1999 · Daniel Francis "Rooste...
The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
2013 · Gutsy Smurf (voice)
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
1995 · Self
The Tempest
2010 · Sebastian
Michael Jackson's Halloween
2017 · Meriwether (voice)
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010 · Hitler / Braveheart (v...
Searching for Debra Winger
2002 · Self (uncredited)
Always at The Carlyle
2018 · Self
My Happy Place
2025 · Self
Buddy
1997 · Dick Croner
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
2006 · Lecturer / Goat-Man /...
Kiloran Bay
2026 · Torquil
Ripley Under Ground
2005 · Jeff Constant
Company Man
2000 · General Batista
Neverwas
2005 · Jake
The Anniversary Party
2001 · Joe Therrian
Club Cumming
2026 · Self
Hurricane Bianca
2016 · Lawrence Taylor
Chimp Crazy
2024 · Self
Urbania
2000 · Brett
The Killer Among Us
2026 · Self - Host
Boogie Woogie
2010 · Dewey Dalamanatousis
Muse of Fire
2013 · Self
The Outback
2012 · Bog (voice)
Second Best
1994 · Bernard
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018 · Narrator (voice)
Intimate Affairs
2002 · Sevy
PoliWood
2009 · Self
One Night Out with Alan Cumming
2026 · Self - Host
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
2007 · Chuck (voice)
Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes
2024 · Self
The Diary
—
X2 Global Webcast Highlights
2003 · Self
Gray Matters
2007 · Gordy
Romy and Michele 2
— · Sandy Frink
Urban Secrets
2012
Paris & Nicole: The Encore
2024 · Narrator
Sir Billi
2012 · Gordon the Goat (voice...
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007 · Self
Chu and Blossom
2014 · Uncle
Dare
2009 · Grant Matson
Treasure Trekkers
— · (voice)
Any Day Now
2012 · Rudy Donatello
Sleazy Tiger
2025 · Alan Cumming
The Last Romantics
1992 · Tulloch
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
2017 · Self (voice)
Suffering Man's Charity
2007 · John Vandermark
Drive Back Home
2024 · Perley
Riverworld
2010 · Judas Caretaker
Eighteen
2005 · Father Chris
Bernard and the Genie
1991 · Bernard Bottle
Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
2020 · B / Hamm
Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder
2015 · Self
Bathtime
1997 · Wrigley
My Old School
2022 · Brandon Lee
Motherfucker: A Movie
2006 · Self
Burn Your Phone
1996 · Andy
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021 · Self
Ptown Diaries
2009 · Narrator
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002 · Self
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
2003 · Self
Bam Bam and Celeste
2005 · Eugene
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
1993 · Greg Deane
Sweet Land
2005 · Frandsen
All Aboard! Scotland's Poshest Train
2024 · Self - Host
Paw Prints and Baby Steps: On the Set of “Son of The Mask”
2005 · Self
Digital Diapers and Dog Bytes: Creating “Son of The Mask”
2005 · Self
The Goodbye Girl
2004 · Mark Bodine
EP Daily
1997
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006 · Self
Rare Objects
2023 · Peter Kessler
This is Stanley Baxter
2001 · Self
Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins
2020 · Self
That Sunday
1994
Ooh the Banter!
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Dread Poets' Society
1992 · Shelley
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
2023 · Narrator (voice)
X2
2003 · Kurt Wagner / Nightcra...
Maladies
2012 · Alan
For My Baby
2000 · Daniel Orgelbrand
After Louie
2017 · Sam Cooper
FX2: Visual Effects
2003 · Self
Full Grown Men
2006 · The Hitchhiker
The Airzone Solution
1993 · MacNamara
V13
2025 · Sigmund Freud
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020 · Alan Cumming
Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler!
2003 · Himself
92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center
2024 · Self
The Real Cabaret
2009 · Self
Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
2022 · Therapist
The Money Pet
2011 · The Narrator (voice)
Becoming Men
2002
Queer as Art
2017 · Self
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
2009
Almost in Love
2013 · Hayden
Borges and Me
—
Prague
1992 · Alexander Novak
Butter
1994 · Ronnie
A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole
2025 · self
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
2021 · Narrator (voice)
Bad Blood
2005 · Davie Mitchell
Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza!
2022 · Self - Host