
Alan Cumming
Biography
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…
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Filmography
Acting (223)
Movies (132)
Avengers: Doomsday
2026 Upcomingas Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
Dec 16
Glenrothan
2026 Upcomingas Donal
Apr 17
One Night Out with Alan Cumming
2026as Host
V13
2025as Sigmund Freud
Sleazy Tiger
2025as Alan Cumming
Being Stanley Baxter
2025as Self
A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole
2025as self
Drive Back Home
2024as Perley
92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center
2024as Self
Marlowe
2023as Lou Hendricks
Genie
2023as Flaxman
Rare Objects
2023as Peter Kessler
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
2023as Narrator (voice)
Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
2022as Therapist
My Father's Dragon
2022as Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)
Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza!
2022as Self - Host
My Old School
2022as Brandon Lee
Ooh the Banter!
2022as Self (archive footage)
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
2021as Narrator (voice)
Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins
2020as Self
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020as Alan Cumming
Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
2020as B / Hamm
Show Dogs
2018as Dante (voice)
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018as Narrator (voice)
Always at The Carlyle
2018as Self
Battle of the Sexes
2017as Ted Tinling
Queer as Art
2017as Self
Michael Jackson's Halloween
2017as Meriwether (voice)
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
2017as Self (voice)
After Louie
2017as Sam Cooper
Hurricane Bianca
2016as Lawrence Taylor
Strange Magic
2015as Bog King (voice)
Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder
2015as Self
Chu and Blossom
2014as Uncle
The Smurfs 2
2013as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
2013as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
Picasso Baby
2013as Self
Muse of Fire
2013as Self
Almost in Love
2013as Hayden
The Outback
2012as Bog (voice)
Sir Billi
2012as Gordon the Goat (voice)
Any Day Now
2012as Rudy Donatello
Maladies
2012as Alan
The Smurfs
2011as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
The Money Pet
2011as The Narrator (voice)
Burlesque
2010as Alexis
Riverworld
2010as Judas Caretaker
Boogie Woogie
2010as Dewey Dalamanatousis
The Tempest
2010as Sebastian
Jackboots on Whitehall
2010as Hitler (voice)
Victoria Wood: Seen on TV
2009
It's Complicated
2009as TV Actor (uncredited)
Dare
2009as Grant Matson
PoliWood
2009as Self
Ptown Diaries
2009as Narrator
The Real Cabaret
2009as Self
The Mystery of Claywoman
2009as Jon Lauting Phd.
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007as Self
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
2007as Chuck (voice)
Gray Matters
2007as Gordy
Suffering Man's Charity
2007as John Vandermark
Motherfucker: A Movie
2006as Self
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
2006as Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006as Self
Full Grown Men
2006as The Hitchhiker
The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
2006
Son of the Mask
2005as Loki
Eighteen
2005as Father Chris
Neverwas
2005as Jake
Bad Blood
2005as Davie Mitchell
Bam Bam and Celeste
2005as Eugene
Sweet Land
2005as Frandsen
Ripley Under Ground
2005as Jeff Constant
Garfield
2004as Persnikitty (voice)
The Goodbye Girl
2004as Mark Bodine
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003as Fegan Floop
Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler!
2003as Himself
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
2003as Self
X2
2003as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
X2 Global Webcast Highlights
2003as Self
FX2: Visual Effects
2003as Self
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002as Fegan Floop
Nicholas Nickleby
2002as Mr. Folair
Intimate Affairs
2002as Sevy
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002as Self
Searching for Debra Winger
2002as Self (uncredited)
Becoming Men
2002
Spy Kids
2001as Fegan Floop
Josie and the Pussycats
2001as Wyatt Frame
The Anniversary Party
2001as Joe Therrian
This is Stanley Baxter
2001as Self
Loser
2000as Alan Cumming / Emcee (uncredited)
Get Carter
2000as Jeremy Kinnear
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
2000as The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged
Urbania
2000as Brett
For My Baby
2000as Daniel Orgelbrand
Company Man
2000as General Batista
Eyes Wide Shut
1999as Desk Clerk
Titus
1999as Saturninus
Plunkett & Macleane
1999as Lord Rochester
Annie
1999as Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan
Spice World
1997as Piers
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
1997as Sandy Frink
Bathtime
1997as Wrigley
Buddy
1997as Dick Croner
Emma
1996as Mr. Elton
Burn Your Phone
1996as Andy
GoldenEye
1995as Boris Grishenko
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
1995as Self
Circle of Friends
1995as Sean Walsh
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
1995as Self
Second Best
1994as Bernard
Black Beauty
1994as Black Beauty (voice)
That Sunday
1994
Butter
1994as Ronnie
The Airzone Solution
1993as MacNamara
Cabaret
1993as Emcee
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
1993as Greg Deane
The Last Romantics
1992as Tulloch
Dread Poets' Society
1992as Shelley
Prague
1992as Alexander Novak
Bernard and the Genie
1991as Bernard Bottle
Conquest of the South Pole
1989Passing Glory
1986as Rab
Kiloran Bay
Borges and Me
Lunch Hour
The Diary
Run
as Steve
Death Do Us Part
Untitled Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Sequel
as Sandy Frink
The Naturalized
as Self
Television (91)
The Mighty Nein
2025as Gustav (voice)
RoboGobo
2025as Dame Luxley (voice)
My Happy Place
2025as Self
Doctor Who
2024as Mr Ring-a-Ding (voice)
Boarders
2024as Alan
Doctor Who: Unleashed
2024as Self
Paris & Nicole: The Encore
2024as Narrator
Chimp Crazy
2024as Self
Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes
2024as Self
All Aboard! Scotland's Poshest Train
2024as Self - Host
The Traitors
2023as Self - Host
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
Dead End: Paranormal Park
2022as Harmony - Demonic Feaster on Fear (voice)
Abominable and the Invisible City
2022as Burnish (voice)
Schmigadoon!
2021as Mayor Aloysius Menlove
The Prince
2021as Owen
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021as Self
Briarpatch
2020as Clyde Brattle
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019as Self
Tamron Hall
2019as Self - Guest
Prodigal Son
2019as Simon Hoxley
Helpsters
2019as Dancer Dave
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019as Self
Instinct
2018as Dylan Reinhart
The Good Fight
2017as Eli Gold
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017as Self
Queers.
2017
Queers.
2017as Steve
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014as Self
Broad City
2014as Alan Cumming
The Outs
2012as Alan Cumming
Urban Secrets
2012
Bubble Guppies
2011as The Glitch (voice)
Web Therapy
2011as Austen Clarke
The Runaway
2011as Desrae
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009as Self - Guest
The Good Wife
2009as Eli Gold
The Good Wife
2009as Eli Gold
Web Therapy
2008as Austen Clarke
Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack
2008as Self
Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack
2008as Self - Hijacker
Masterpiece Mystery!
2008as Self - Host
The Graham Norton Show
2007as Self
Tin Man
2007as Glitch
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
2007as Chuck Masters (voice)
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
2007as Zeke (voice)
The One Show
2006as Self - Guest
Me, Eloise
2006as (voice)
Web Junk 20
2006
Doctor Who
2005as King James
8 Out of 10 Cats
2005as Self
Playing It Straight
2005as Narrator (voice)
The L Word
2004as Billie Blaikie
The Tony Danza Show
2004as Self - Guest
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004as Self
Shoebox Zoo
2004as Bruno the Bear (voice)
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003as Self - Guest host
Through the Night with...
2002as Self
V Graham Norton
2002as Self
God, the Devil and Bob
2000as The Devil (voice)
Sex and the City
1998as Oscar
EP Daily
1997
The Daily Show
1996as Self
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996as Angus 'The Hole' McDuff
Ghosts
1995as Philip
Gargoyles
1994as John Castaway (voice)
The High Life
1994as Sebastian Flight
The High Life
1994as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993as Self - Guest
Frasier
1993as Ahmrit
Rik Mayall Presents
1993as Greg Deane
Have I Got News for You
1990as Self
The Simpsons
1989as Loki (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988as Self - Guest
Screen Two
1985as Tulloch
Travelling Man
1984as Jamie
Taggart
1983
Masterpiece Mystery
1980as Self - Host
Question Time
1979as Self - Panellist
Saturday Night Live
1975as Self - Host
Great Performances
1971as Self
Tony Awards
1956as Self - Host
Tony Awards
1956as Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
1956as Self - Host
Tony Awards
1956as Self - Presenter
The Emmy Awards
1949as Self
Rhona Who Lives by the River
as Hamish
Tip Toe
as Leo
Crew (17)
Movies (12)
We Are Pat
2025Executive Producer
Asog
2025Executive Producer
Sharon Needles Presents: Mask It or Casket
2020Executive Producer
Suffering Man's Charity
2007Director
Suffering Man's Charity
2007Executive Producer
Sweet Land
2005Producer
The Anniversary Party
2001Director
The Anniversary Party
2001Producer
The Anniversary Party
2001Writer
Burn Your Phone
1996Director
Butter
1994Director
Butter
1994Writer
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