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Alan Cumming

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Known For

60 Years Old

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.

Born

Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland, UK on 27th January 1965

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Garfield
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Taggart
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GoldenEye
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The Smurfs 2
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God, the Devil and Bob
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Urban Secrets
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Son of the Mask
Loki
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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
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Strange Magic
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Burlesque
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Shoebox Zoo
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Me, Eloise
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It's Complicated
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Get Carter
Jeremy Kinnear
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The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
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Battle of the Sexes
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Black Beauty
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Emma
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Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes
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Nicholas Nickleby
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Genie
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Spice World
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The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
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Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
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My Father's Dragon
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Annie
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Show Dogs
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Josie and the Pussycats
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Titus
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Loser
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The Tempest
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Michael Jackson's Halloween
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Rik Mayall Presents
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Playing It Straight
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My Happy Place
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Always at The Carlyle
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Boogie Woogie
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Hurricane Bianca
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Rare Objects
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Almost in Love
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Gray Matters
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Muse of Fire
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Circle of Friends
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Cabaret
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Company Man
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Intimate Affairs
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Neverwas
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Jackboots on Whitehall
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Sir Billi
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The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
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Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
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Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
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Sweet Land
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My Old School
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Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
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The Anniversary Party
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Second Best
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Ripley Under Ground
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Searching for Debra Winger
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The Goodbye Girl
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Chu and Blossom
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Maladies
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The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
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The Airzone Solution
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Drive Back Home
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
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Full Grown Men
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X2
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Urbania
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Eighteen
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The Diary
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Bam Bam and Celeste
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PoliWood
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ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
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For My Baby
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Prague
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After Louie
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Borges and Me
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Goldeneye: The Secret Files
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Suffering Man's Charity
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Bridget Everett: Gynecological Wonder
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The Last Romantics
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Ooh the Banter!
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Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
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Butter
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X2 Global Webcast Highlights
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The Money Pet
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Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
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Queer as Art
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Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
Greg Deane
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92nd Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center
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V13
Sigmund Freud
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Becoming Men
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Club Cumming Presents a Queer Comedy Extravaganza!
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Bathtime
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Burn Your Phone
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MOFO NYC
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Introducing the Incredible Nightcrawler!
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Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
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The Mystery of Claywoman
Jon Lauting Phd.
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The Naturalized
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Ptown Diaries
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Live with Carnegie Hall: Judy Collins
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Bad Blood
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That Sunday
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Dread Poets' Society
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Death Do Us Part
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The Real Cabaret
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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
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Sleazy Tiger
Alan Cumming
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A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole
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Conquest of the South Pole