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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Avengers: Doomsday
2026
as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
The Avengers, Wakandans, Fantastic Four, Thunderbolts, and X-Men all fight against Doctor Doom. Plot TBA.

Sleazy Tiger
2025
as Alan Cumming
Hopeless romantic Alan is having a great first date with vegan heartthrob Blair but when Blair gives him a jar of homemade kimchi, Alan struggles to c...

A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole
2025
as self
With heart & ‘sole’ and unflinching determination, global fashion icon/social activist Kenneth Cole has put ’cause’ before ‘commerce’ for 40 years. Ke...

92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center
2024
as Self
The 92nd annual tree-lighting ceremony in New York kicks off the holiday season with a dazzling display of musical talents, star-studded surprises and...

Drive Back Home
2024
as Perley
A conservative plumber from a small east coast village who travels to Toronto in order to get his brother out of jail after he is arrested for having ...

Genie
2023
as Flaxman
Flora, a genie trapped for more than 2,000 years inside an antique jewelry box, is accidentally called to service by Bernard, whose life is unraveling...

Asog
2023
Executive Producer
This unique narrative incorporating documentary elements follows Rey, a 40-year-old non-binary teacher and typhoon survivor, on a roadtrip to fame. Wi...

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
2023
as Narrator (voice)
The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his sexuality ...

Rare Objects
2023
as Peter Kessler
A young woman seeks to rebuild her life when she takes work at an antique store. She regains her confidence from the kind souls who own the shop, unti...

Marlowe
2023
as Lou Hendricks
Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californian family after a beautiful blonde hires him to tr...

Ooh the Banter!
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Jack Docherty brings together a jam-packed cast of comedians, actors and famous faces for a riotous celebration of Scotland's most valuable export – i...

My Father's Dragon
2022
as Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)
Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elme...

Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza!
2022
as Self - Host
Cumming hosts this cabaret-style gathering featuring seven up-and-coming queer comedians who represent not only the diversity of the queer spectrum, b...

Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men
2022
as Therapist
A woman tells her daughter about every man she’s ever been with – in the hope her daughter won’t make the same mistakes.

My Old School
2022
as Brandon Lee
In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the ...

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
2021
as Narrator (voice)
Conceived by John Mauceri, this new work is a re-imagination of Tchaikovsky’s holiday favorite, "The Nutcracker." Based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1816 book...

Sharon Needles Presents: Mask It or Casket
2020
Executive Producer
Sharon Needles presents a star-studded spoopy music special filmed live from New York City.

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
as Alan Cumming
An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.

Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins
2020
as Self
Judy Collins burst onto the music scene in the 1960s and has not stopped since. Along with Shawn Colvin, Steve Earle, and Jimmy Webb, Collins leads a ...

Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
2020
as B / Hamm
Hamm is an ageing, blind tyrant who is confined to a wheelchair – but soon becomes locked in a bleakly funny and subversively devastating stalemate. ...

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018
as Narrator (voice)
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other...

Show Dogs
2018
as Dante (voice)
Max, a macho, solitary Rottweiler police dog is ordered to go undercover as a primped show dog in a prestigious Dog Show, along with his human partner...

Always at The Carlyle
2018
as Self
The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorker...

Michael Jackson's Halloween
2017
as Meriwether (voice)
The one-hour animated special, packed with the vocal talents of some of your favorite CBS stars and the King of Pop's most memorable hits, follows Vin...

Battle of the Sexes
2017
as Ted Tinling
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

Queer as Art
2017
as Self
Documentary celebrating the LGBTQ contribution to the arts in Britain in the 50 years since decriminalisation. It features interviews with leading fig...

After Louie
2017
as Sam Cooper
As an AIDS activist and member of ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s, Sam witnessed the deaths of too many friends and lovers. Battlewounded and struggling w...

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
2017
as Self (voice)
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin celebrates one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the O...

Hurricane Bianca
2016
as Lawrence Taylor
A teacher from New York moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised in drag to get revenge on the people who were ...

Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder
2015
as Self
A mix of cabaret and standup recorded at Joe's Pub in New York.

Strange Magic
2015
as Bog King (voice)
A love potion works its devious charms on fairies, elves and the swamp-dwelling Bog King as they all try to possess the potion for themselves.

Chu and Blossom
2014
as Uncle
A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.

Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follow...

The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
2013
as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
When Brainy Smurf is favored to win the annual Smurfberry Hunt for the ninth year in a row, Gutsy Smurf sets out to discover how Brainy wins every yea...
Picasso Baby
2013
as Self
Jay Z performs Picasso Baby at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.

The Smurfs 2
2013
as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
The evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful...

Almost in Love
2013
as Hayden
A love triangle shot in two continuous 45-minute takes set eighteen months apart: the first over a sunset, the second a sunrise.

Any Day Now
2012
as Rudy Donatello
In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the un...

Maladies
2012
as Alan
A former soap star appears to have a narrator stuck in his head. As he moves in with his sister and works to restart his creative career, he tries to ...

Sir Billi
2012
as Gordon the Goat (voice)
An aging, skateboarding veterinarian Sir Billi goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting villainous policemen and powerful lairds in a battle to...

The Outback
2012
as Bog (voice)
Being teased for his color, Johnny the white koala joins a traveling carnival with Hamish, a Tasmanian devil, and Higgens, a photographer monkey as ta...

The Smurfs
2011
as Gutsy Smurf (voice)
When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours -- in fact, smack d...

The Money Pet
2011
as The Narrator (voice)
After his mutt accidentally eats some loose change, a man is soon bewildered to discover that his furry companion has passed the currency with compoun...

Burlesque
2010
as Alexis
Ali leaves behind a troubled life and follows her dreams to Los Angeles, where she lands a job as a cocktail waitress at the Burlesque Lounge, a once-...

Jackboots on Whitehall
2010
as Hitler (voice)
A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.

The Tempest
2010
as Sebastian
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been ban...

Riverworld
2010
as Judas Caretaker
Welcome to Riverworld, a place of strange, watery beauty and the current abode of a fascinating cast of the recently (and not-so-recently) dead. It ce...

It's Complicated
2009
as TV Actor (uncredited)
Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is mar...

Dare
2009
as Grant Matson
When a pompous actor tells good girl Alexa that she hasn't lived, she embarks on a bold journey that takes her to mysterious bad boy Johnny. Envious, ...

The Real Cabaret
2009
as Self
Few musicals can claim to capture the mood of a historical period as well as the 1972 classic Cabaret. Liza Minnelli's unforgettable portrayal of sin...
The Mystery of Claywoman
2009
as Jon Lauting Phd.
A mock documentary exploring the purported existence of 'Claywoman', a 500 million year old enigma who, legend has it, can cure anyone of their deepes...

PoliWood
2009
as Self
An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.

Boogie Woogie
2009
as Dewey Dalamanatousis
In London's contemporary art world, everyone has a hustle. Art Spindle runs a high-end gallery: he hopes to flip a Mondrian for millions. One of his a...

Ptown Diaries
2009
as Narrator
Chronicling the amazing history of Provincetown a small Ma. town where the pilgrims first landed to the present day Gay Mecca. Ptown diaries weaves th...

Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
2007
as Chuck (voice)
Welcome to the gayest of gay ghettos, West Lahunga Beach, where Rick and Steve make their fabulously decorated double-income-no-kids home. That is unt...

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
as Self
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway is an American documentary film, directed by Dori Berinstein, a Broadway Producer, Writer and Filmmaker. Berinstei...

Suffering Man's Charity
2007
as John Vandermark
John Vandermark (Cumming) has taken in a struggling writer, Sebastian St. Germain (Boreanaz), who overstays his welcome. When John discovers that Seba...

Suffering Man's Charity
2007
Director, Executive Producer
John Vandermark (Cumming) has taken in a struggling writer, Sebastian St. Germain (Boreanaz), who overstays his welcome. When John discovers that Seba...

Gray Matters
2007
as Gordy
Sam and Gray are such a well-matched pair that it is difficult to believe they are brother and sister rather than husband and wife. They both share a ...
The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
2006
A short documentary about the press of GoldenEye.

Full Grown Men
2006
as The Hitchhiker
A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than ...

Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
2006
as Lecturer / Goat-Man / FDR
From an ominous Lecturer, a small 1930s middle American community learns of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise t...

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006
as Self
A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback M...
MOFO NYC
2006
as Self
MOFO NYC is the party brainchild of DJ Singer Glam Bitch Mother Michael T. Along with partners the lovely & talented DJ Justine D, club owner & drumm...

Ripley Under Ground
2005
as Jeff Constant
After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name a...

Sweet Land
2005
as Frandsen
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.

Sweet Land
2005
Producer
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.

Bam Bam and Celeste
2005
as Eugene
Celeste and Bam Bam escape their Midwest hometown for New York, and take on their high-school nemeses - the dictators of the world-famous Salon Mirage...

Neverwas
2005
as Jake
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What h...

Bad Blood
2005
as Davie Mitchell
A man infected with HIV exacts his revenge on the person responsible. Based on a chapter from Irvine Welsh's 1993 novel Trainspotting.

Son of the Mask
2005
as Loki
Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "bo...

Eighteen
2005
as Father Chris
Pip, a street kid just turning 18, receives his grandfather's World War II-era memoirs and discovers parallels to his own life.

Garfield
2004
as Persnikitty (voice)
Garfield, the fat, lazy, lasagna lover, has everything a cat could want. But when Jon, in an effort to impress the Liz - the vet and an old high-schoo...

The Goodbye Girl
2004
as Mark Bodine
Musical dancer on the way out (at 36) Paula McFadden had it swell with actor Tony DeSanti, but instead of taking her to Hollywood he gets a European m...

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
2003
The making of the sequel to the first X-Men film, trying to make it bigger and better than the previous film, and the challenges that come with that g...

Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler!
2003
as Himself
It features interviews, some sketches of figuring out the look, behind the scenes footage of rehearsal and make-up of Nightcrawler on X2.

X2 Global Webcast Highlights
2003
as Self
In this piece, Michael Broidy of Fox Publicity sits with Bryan Singer, producers Ralph Winter and Lauren Shuler Donner, and actors Hugh Jackman, James...

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003
as Fegan Floop
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the worl...

X2
2003
as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm...

Nicholas Nickleby
2002
as Mr. Folair
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly...

Becoming Men
2002
Nothing equals that feeling of ultimate conquest like our first sexual experiences. It is a time of mystery, wonder and new adult responsibilities. He...

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002
as Fegan Floop
Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to...

Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self (uncredited)
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002
as Self
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.

Intimate Affairs
2002
as Sevy
Edgar organizes a salon on the topic of sexuality and arranges to use the lavish estate of Faldo as a venue. In light of the overwhelming brilliance o...

The Anniversary Party
2001
as Joe Therrian
While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, American actress Sally Nash and British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close fr...

The Anniversary Party
2001
Director, Writer, Producer
While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, American actress Sally Nash and British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close fr...

Josie and the Pussycats
2001
as Wyatt Frame
Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remain...

Spy Kids
2001
as Fegan Floop
Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents from thei...

For My Baby
2000
as Daniel Orgelbrand
A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses to die by laying claim to his soul.

Get Carter
2000
as Jeremy Kinnear
Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes...

Loser
2000
as Alan Cumming / Emcee (uncredited)
On a university scholarship, a good natured student from the midwest gets a crash course in city life while dealing with three evil roommates. He befr...

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
2000
as The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged
The Flintstones are at it again. The Flintstones and the Rubbles head for Rock Vegas with Fred hoping to court the lovely Wilma. Nothing will stand in...

Company Man
2000
as General Batista
In the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sen...

Urbania
2000
as Brett
A series of urban legends take place around the life of a troubled man who is searching New York City for a mysterious stranger.

Titus
1999
as Saturninus
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.

Annie
1999
as Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan
Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-dow...

Eyes Wide Shut
1999
as Desk Clerk
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He ...

Plunkett & MacLeane
1999
as Lord Rochester
Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: T...

Spice World
1997
as Piers
World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their ...

Buddy
1997
as Dick Croner
An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
1997
as Sandy Frink
Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their suc...

Bathtime
1997
as Wrigley
A man tries to commit suicide for the love of his goldfish, but finds it surprisingly difficult to accomplish.

Burn Your Phone
1996
as Andy
Andy works at the Hastings Telephone Exchange. All day, every day he copes with emergencies, from squashed seagulls to suicide attempts. Buton this pa...

Burn Your Phone
1996
Director
Andy works at the Hastings Telephone Exchange. All day, every day he copes with emergencies, from squashed seagulls to suicide attempts. Buton this pa...

Emma
1996
as Mr. Elton
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are ...

Goldeneye: The Secret Files
1995
as Self
Made for TV documentary including interview and behind the scenes footage from the James Bond movie GoldenEye (1995).

GoldenEye
1995
as Boris Grishenko
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world...

Circle of Friends
1995
as Sean Walsh
Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. ...
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
1995
as Self
A short documentary about the cast of GoldenEye.

Second Best
1994
as Bernard
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.

Black Beauty
1994
as Black Beauty (voice)
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.

That Sunday
1994
Romantic comedy/short film from 1994, starring Alan Cumming and Minnie Driver.

Butter
1994
as Ronnie
Jane has an eating problem. She has bought and prepared a feast for an unseen date who calls in sick and sends her spiraling round London, visiting fr...

Butter
1994
Director, Writer
Jane has an eating problem. She has bought and prepared a feast for an unseen date who calls in sick and sends her spiraling round London, visiting fr...

Cabaret
1993
as Emcee
Filmed live from the 1993 revival, Sam Mendes' directorial debut takes place at the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End. Jane Horrocks stars as caba...

Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
1993
as Greg Deane
Mickey Love is an aging television quiz show host who after climbing his way back to the top after conquering alcoholism has hosted the highly rated "...

The Airzone Solution
1993
as MacNamara
The Airzone Solution takes place in a future Britain where pollution has reached a point where the populace must often wear filtration masks when they...

Dread Poets' Society
1992
as Shelley
Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharin...

Prague
1992
as Alexander Novak
Alexander is a young, emotionally-repressed Scot who, upset by his Czechoslovakian mother's death, journeys to Prague to scatter her ashes and track d...

The Last Romantics
1992
as Tulloch
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.

Bernard and the Genie
1991
as Bernard Bottle
Bernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his girlfriend and discovers a genie in an old bottle. The genie ...
Conquest of the South Pole
1989
A Group of unemployed Edinburgh youths embark on a recreation of Roald Amundsen's historic expedition to the South Pole.
Passing Glory
1986
as Rab
When Spanish Civil War veteran Jessie McFarlane dies, the funeral is a mockery of her life and beliefs. Caught in a family divided by politics and rel...

The Diary
N/A
In the early 1930s, a young man leaves Shanghai to come to Europe and reunite with the love of his life.
Death Do Us Part
N/A
In the middle ages Giulia, a young rebel, lives in a superstitious little town. She interacts with Death to fight and defeat the black plague.
Lunch Hour
N/A
Delving into the anatomy of an affair, a soup-loving married man meets the soup-loving married woman of his dreams. Thereafter, both throw caution to ...
Glenrothan
N/A
as Donal
After 35 years in Chicago, Donal reluctantly returns to the Scottish Highlands to make amends with his estranged older brother, Sandy. Sandy needs Don...

Borges and Me
N/A
Jay Parini finds himself stuck in a Morris Minor, chauffeuring the brilliant, blind Jorge Luis Borges through Scotland. Quiet and conservative, 23-yea...
Run
N/A
as Steve
A lonely rural mechanic battles for survival after a tragic accident robs him of the life he's known. As he learns to love himself, he finds in the wo...

V13
N/A
as Sigmund Freud
In Vienna in 1913, Hugo, a young man from a well-off Viennese family, is sent to see Sigmund Freud, the inventor of psychoanalysis. Hugo complains tha...
The Naturalized
N/A
as Self
Weaving together the lives of different people from different countries who all share a quest for citizenship by choice, not birthright, this document...