List of Alan Cumming performances

Cumming during the 2011 Fashion Week

This is the filmography list for the Scottish actor, writer and presenter Alan Cumming.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Prague	Alexander Novak
1993	The Airzone Solution	MacNamara
1994	Second Best	Bernard
	Black Beauty	Black Beauty (voice)
1995	Circle of Friends	Sean Walsh
	GoldenEye	Boris Grishenko
1996	Emma	Philip Elton
1997	Romy and Michele's High School Reunion	Sandy Frink
	Buddy	Dick Croner
	Spice World	Piers Cuthbertson-Smyth
1999	Titus	Saturninus
	Plunkett & Macleane	Lord Rochester
	Eyes Wide Shut	Hotel Desk Clerk
2000	Loser	Himself/Emcee	Uncredited
	Urbania	Brett
	The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas	The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged
	Get Carter	Jeremy Kinnear
2001	The Anniversary Party	Joe Therrian	Feature directorial debut; Also co-writer, co-producer, and co-director (with Jennifer Jason Leigh)
	Investigating Sex	Sevy
	Josie and the Pussycats	Wyatt Frame
	Spy Kids	Fegan Floop
	Company Man	General Batista
2002	CinéMagique	The Magician	Short film
	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams	Fegan Floop	Cameo
	Nicholas Nickleby	Mr. Folair
2003	X2	Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over	Fegan Floop	Cameo
2004	Garfield: The Movie	Sir Roland / Persnikitty (voice)
2005	Son of the Mask	Loki
	Eighteen	Father Chris
	Ripley Under Ground	Jeff Constant
	Neverwas	Jake
	Sweet Land	Frandsen	Also producer
	Bam Bam and Celeste	Eugene
2006	Full Grown Men	The Hitchhiker	Also co-producer
2007	Gray Matters	Gordy
	Suffering Man's Charity (aka Ghost Writer)	John Vandermark	Also director and executive producer
2009	Boogie Woogie	Dewey
	Dare	Grant Matson
	PoliWood	Himself	Documentary
2010	The Tempest	Sebastian
	Jackboots on Whitehall	Adolf Hitler, Braveheart (voice)
	Burlesque	Alexis
2011	The Smurfs	Gutsy Smurf (voice)
2012	Sir Billi	Gordon The Goat (voice)
	The Outback	Bog (voice)
	Any Day Now	Rudy
2013	The Smurfs 2	Gutsy Smurf (voice)
2014	Chu and Blossom	Uncle Jackie
2015	Strange Magic	Bog King (voice)
2016	Hurricane Bianca	Lawrence Taylor
2017	After Louie	Sam Cooper	Also producer
	Battle of the Sexes	Ted Tinling
2018	Show Dogs	Dante (voice)
	They'll Love Me When I'm Dead	Narrator
2021	Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men	The Therapist
2022	My Old School	Brian MacKinnon/"Brandon Lee"	Cumming lip syncs to the audio of recorded interviews with MacKinnon,who did not wish to appear on camera for the documentary
	Marlowe	Lou Hendricks
	My Father's Dragon	Cornelius the Crocodile (voice)
2023	Rare Objects	Peter Kessler
	Genie	Flaxman
2024	Drive Back Home	Perley
2025	V13	Sigmund Freud	[1]
2025	Glenrothan †	Donal	Post-production
2026	Avengers: Doomsday †	Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler	Post-production [2]
TBA	Run†	Steve	Post-production

Television

Cumming at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Travelling Man	Jamie	Episode: "Sudden Death"
1986	Taggart	Jamie McCormack	Episode: "Death Call"
	Take the High Road	Jim Hunter	4 episodes
1987	Shadow of the Stone	Tom Henderson	5 episodes
1991	Bernard and the Genie	Bernard Bottle	Television film Film acting debut
1992	Screen Two	Tulloch	Episode: "The Last Romantics"
	ScreenPlay	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Episode: "Dread Poets Society"
1993	Cabaret	Emcee	Television film
	Micky Love	Greg Deane
1995	The High Life	Sebastian Flight	7 episodes; also co-writer
1996	3rd Rock from the Sun	Angus 'The Hole' McDuff	Episode: "Dick and Harry Fall into a Hole"
1997	For My Baby	Daniel Orgelbrand	Television film
1999	Annie	Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan	Television film
2000–2011	God, the Devil and Bob	The Devil (voice)	13 episodes
2000	Saturday Night Live	Himself	Host; episode: "Alan Cumming/Jennifer Lopez"
2001	Sex and the City	Oscar	Episode: "The Real Me"
2002	Courage the Cowardly Dog	Rumpledkiltskin (voice)	Episode: "Rumpledkiltskin"
	Foyle's War	Himself	Host; episode: "Series VII: The Eternity Ring"
2003	Frasier	Ahmrit	Episode: "Kenny on the Couch"
2004–2005	Shoebox Zoo	Bruno the Bear (voice)	26 episodes
2005	Reefer Madness	Lecturer, Goat-man, Various characters	Television film; also known as Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
2006	The L Word	Billie Blaikie	6 episodes
2006–2008	Robot Chicken	Interperator / Interpreter (voice)	3 episodes
2007–2009	Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World	Chuck, Rupert, Zeke (voice)	13 episodes
2007	Tin Man	Glitch	3 episodes
2010	Riverworld	Judas Caretaker	Television film
2010–2016	The Good Wife [3]	Eli Gold	121 episodes
2011	The Runaway	Desrae	5 episodes
2011–2015	Web Therapy [4]	Austen Clarke	11 episodes
2013	Arthur	Sebastian (voice)	Episode: "Show Off/Dog's Best Friend" [5]
2014	Dora the Explorer	White Rabbit (voice)	Episode: "Dora in Wonderland"
2015	69th Tony Awards	Himself	Host
2017	Queers [6]	Steve	Episode: "Something Borrowed"
2018–2019	Instinct	Dr. Dylan Reinhart	24 episodes; also executive producer
2018, 2025	Doctor Who	King James	Episode: "The Witchfinders" [7]
		Mr Ring-a-Ding / Lux Imperator (voice)	Episode: "Lux"
2019	Broad City	Himself	Episode: "Lost and Found"
	Helpsters	Dancer Dave	Episode: "Dancer Dave"
2020	Briarpatch	Clyde Brattle	5 episodes
2021	Prodigal Son	Simon Hoxley	2 episodes
	The Prince	Owen (voice)	12 episodes
	The Simpsons	Loki (voice)	Episode: "Bart's in Jail!"
2021–2023	Schmigadoon!	Mayor Menlove, Dooley Blight	Main role
2021, 2022	Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland	Himself	Two series alongside Miriam Margolyes [8]
2022	Bubble Guppies	The Glitch (voice)	Episode: "Robo Puppy!"
	Dead End: Paranormal Park	Harmony (voice)	Episode: "Trust Me"
	The Good Fight	Eli Gold	2 episodes
2022–2023	Abominable and the Invisible City	Burnish (voice)	11 episodes
2023–present	The Traitors	Himself	Host; also producer
2023–2024	The Tiny Chef Show	Narrator / Announcer (voice)	4 episodes
2024	Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes	Himself	Presenter [9]
	Scotland's Most Luxurious Railway
2025	Bafta TV Awards	Himself	Host
	Phineas and Ferb	Haberdasher (voice)	Episode: "The Haberdasher"
	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Himself	Guest Host [10]
	The Mighty Nein	Gustav Fletching (voice)	[11]
TBA	Rhona Who Lives by the River	Hamish (voice)	Upcoming series

Theatre

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
1987	Cabaret	Cliff	Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh [12]
1987	Babes in the Wood	Barry	Tron Theatre, Glasgow [13] [14]
1988	Great Expectations	Pip	TAG Theatre Company, Glasgow
1988	Victor and Barry say Goodbye	Barry	Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh [15]
1989–1990	As You Like It	Courtier, Silvius	UK tour [16] [17] [18]
1989–1990	Singer	Derek, Pepper, Tim Bunty, NCO 1	UK tour [19] [20]
1991	Accidental Death of an Anarchist	The Madman	Off-West End [21]
1991	Romeo and Juliet	Romeo	National Theatre Studio
1992	La Bête	Valère	West End [22] [23]
1993	Hamlet	Hamlet	UK tour [24]
1993–1994	Cabaret	The Emcee	Off-West End
1998–1999			Second Broadway revival
2001	Design for Living	Otto	Broadway revival
2002	Elle	The Pope	Off-Broadway [25] [26]
2006	The Threepenny Opera	Macheath	Broadway revival
2006	Bent	Max	West End [27]
2008	The Seagull	Boris Alexeyevitch Trigorin	Off-Broadway revival
2008	The Bacchae	Dionysus	International tour [28] [29] [30]
2012	Macbeth	All roles	National Theatre of Scotland
2013			Broadway revival [31]
2014–2015	Cabaret	The Emcee	Third Broadway revival
2015	Lazarus	The Killer	Cameo in filmed video insert [32]
2019	Daddy	Andre	Off-Broadway [33]
2020	Endgame	Hamm	London revival
2020	Rough for Theatre II	B
2022	Burn	Robert Burns	Edinburgh [34]
2024	Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age	Himself	Broadway production
2026	The High Life – The Musical, Still Living It!	Sebastian Flight	Dundee Rep Theatre

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes
2006	X-Men: The Official Game	Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler	[35]
2009	Wet	Christopher Sorrell / Ze Kollecktor

Podcasts

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2021	Hot White Heist	Sass	Also director
2022	Solar	Alex Tawley
2023	Hidden Signal: Evergreen	Fin Gorale

References

1. Atkinson, Tom (April 30, 2025). "V13". Film Threat . Retrieved August 26, 2025.
2. D'Alessandro, Anthony (March 26, 2025). "Marvel Confirming 'Avengers: Doomsday' Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Paul Rudd, Letitia Wright, Sebastian Stan, Vanessa Kirby & More…". Deadline Hollywood . Archived from the original on March 26, 2025. Retrieved March 26, 2025.
3. Erin Carlson (January 9, 2012). "'The Good Wife's' Alan Cumming Marries Grant Shaffer". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
4. Irene Lacher (July 28, 2013). "'Web Therapy's' Lisa Kudrow doesn't shrink from her TV chores". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved July 7, 2014.
5. "PBS KIDS Debuts New Episodes & Online Content from ARTHUR and MARTHA SPEAKS - BWWTVWorld". Broadway World TV. October 22, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
6. "Alan Cumming and Ben Whishaw Star in BBC America's Short Film Series 'Queers'". BBC America. August 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2018.
7. Marcus. "Doctor Who Episodes Seven and Eight". Doctor Who News. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
8. "Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland and Beyond". radiotimes.com. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
9. "Alan Cumming's Paradise Homes". hgtv.co.uk. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
10. Riccardo, Nick (July 17, 2025). "Alan Cumming, Fortune Feimster to Guest Host 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Next Week". LateNighter. Retrieved July 22, 2025.
11. Cruz, Christopher (October 1, 2025). "Inside Critical Role's New Animated Series 'The Mighty Nein'". Rolling Stone .
12. review of Cabaret by Sally Kinnes, The List, Issue 51, 2–15 October 1987, p. 20
13. preview of Babes in the Wood, The List, Issue 56, 11 December 1987 – 7 January 1988, p. 29
14. review of Babes in the Wood, The List, Issue 57, 8–21 January 1988, p. 23
15. review of Victor and Barry say Goodbye by Andrew Burnet, The List, Issue 74, 19–25 August 1988, p. 13
16. "AYL198909 - As You Like It". RSC Performances. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
17. "AYL199002 - As You Like It". RSC Performances. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
18. "AYL199004 - As You Like It". RSC Performances. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
19. "SIN198910 - Singer". RSC Performances. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
20. "SIN199003 - Singer". RSC Performances. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
21. Billington, Michael (January 9, 1991). "Farce forfeit". The Guardian. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
22. "Olivier Winners 1992". Official London Theatre. Society of London Theatre. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
23. Coveney, Michael (July 8, 2010). "La Bête". What's On Stage. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
24. "Hamlet · Shakespeare". Learning on Screen. British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
25. Gans, Andrew (July 17, 2002). "Alan Cumming's Art Party Makes Debut with Elle, July 17–31". Playbill. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
26. Eisler, Garrett (May 2003). "Performance Review: "Elle"" . Theatre Journal. 55 (2): 329–331. doi:10.1353/tj.2003.0061.
27. Billington, Michael (October 6, 2006). "Bent". The Guardian. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
28. National Theatre of Scotland (August 8, 2008). "The Bacchae - international tour trailer 2008". YouTube. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
29. Stasio, Marilyn (July 5, 2008). "The Bacchae". Variety. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
30. "The Bacchae". National Theatre of Scotland. Retrieved September 12, 2024.
31. "Macbeth". Playbill.
32. Felton-Dansk, Miriam (December 8, 2015). "The Man Who Fell to Earth Rises Again in 'Lazarus'...Or Does He?". Village Voice . Archived from the original on December 11, 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
33. Brantley, Ben (March 5, 2019). "Review: This 'Daddy' Has Issues. A Pool and Alan Cumming, Too". New York Times. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
34. Fisher, Mark (August 7, 2022). "Burn review – Alan Cumming is extraordinary as Scotland's rockstar poet". The Guardian. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
35. "Movie Cast Voicing X-Men: The Official Game". Superherohype.com. CraveOnline Media. April 24, 2006. Retrieved January 31, 2016.

External links

• Alan Cumming at IMDb