Alan Cumming is a Scottish-American actor, writer, comedian and activist with a career spanning four decades in film, tv and theatre.
Alan Cumming is starring in The High Life The Musical in 2026, based on the much-loved BBC comedy series.
Alan Cumming most recently starred in Alan Cumming is Not Acting His Age at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London.
Prior to that he appeared in the 2020 production of Endgame at the Old Vic theatre in London alongside Daniel Radcliffe, Jane Horrocks and Karl Johnson.
He has won a Tony Award for his performance in Cabaret and an Olivier Award for Accidental Death of an Anarchist in the West End.
Other theatre roles include: Daddy (Off Broadway); Legal Immigrant (US concert tour); Cabaret (NYC); Macbeth (National Theatre of Scotland/Broadway); and, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs (US/UK/ Australia concert tour) – an award-winning show inspired by his infamous post-show dressing room parties during his Broadway run in Cabaret.
Alan has also been nominated for multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for his supporting role on the US series The Good Wife.
His screen work ranges from art house to blockbuster, cult to mainstream, but his performances are always indelible and some immortal: Mr Floop in Spy Kids, Eli in The Good Wife, Nightcrawler in X2: X Men United, Sebastian in The High Life, ‘O’ in Sex and the City, Boris in Goldeneye, King James in Doctor Who, Sandy Frink in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Mayor Menlove in Schmigadoon and himself on Broad City.
He is the author of six books including a New York Times #1 bestselling memoir, performs in concert regularly in halls around the world and co-owns his own, eponymous cabaret bar Club Cumming, a home for ‘all ages, all genders, all colours, all sexualities, where kindness is all and anything could happen!’
The list of his collaborators over the years includes Liza Minnelli, Jeremy O. Harris, Jackie Chan, the Smurfs, David Bowie, The Simpsons, Robert Wilson, Stanley Kubrick, Jay Z, Bianca Del Rio, the Spice Girls, George Lucas, Terence Blanchard, KT Tunstall and not forgetting Dora the Explorer, Arthur and Elmo.
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