Alan Cumming Highlights

  • 2009: Released debut solo album, I Bought a Blue Car Today
  • 2008: Appeared in the indie comedy, "Full Grown Men"
  • 2007: Cast as Glitch in "Tin Man" (Sci-Fi), a six hour miniseries based on L. Frank Baum's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • 2007: Cast opposite Heather Graham in the indie feature "Gray Matters"
  • 2006: U.S. television series debut on Showtime's "The L Word," as Billie Blaikie, a party promoter
  • 2006: Reprised the role of Nightcrawler in the third installment of the "X-Men" series, "X-Men: The Last Stand"
  • 2005: Co-starred with Steven Weber in Showtime's movie adaptation of "Reefer Madness," an off-Broadway musical that was itself based on a hysterical 1930s film
  • 2004: Starred opposite Bill Murray in "Garfield: The Movie"
  • 2004: Appeared in the television remake of Neil Simon's "The Goodbye Girl," with Jeff Daniels and Patricia Heaton
  • 2003: Played Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in "X2"
  • 2003: Returned to play Fegan Floop for "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over"
  • 2002: Revised role as Fegan Floop in "Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams"
  • 2001: Acted alongside Antonio Banderas in the family comedy "Spy Kids"
  • 2001: Co-starred with Jennifer Ehle and Dominic West in the Broadway revival of "Design for Living"
  • 2001: With Jennifer Jason Leigh, co-directed, co-produced, co-wrote and co-starred in "The Anniversary Party"
  • 2001: Appeared with Nick Nolte in Alan Rudolph's period comedy-drama "Investigating Sex"
  • 2000: Played Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in the comedy "Company Man," co-starring Woody Allen
  • 2000: Had dual role of The Great Gazoo and Mick Jagged in the live-action feature "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas"
  • 2000: Cast as an AIDS-stricken gay man in the dark drama "Urbania", based on Daniel Rietz's play "Urban Folk Tales"
  • 1999: Played Lord Rochester, the foppish old friend of Jonny Lee Miller's Macleane, in "Plunkett and Macleane"
  • 1999: Co-starred with Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange in "Titus," Julie Taymor's film version of Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus"
  • 1999: Offered a sly turn as a lascivious hotel clerk in Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut"
  • 1999: Played the villainous Rooster in the ABC remake of the musical "Annie"
  • 1998: Made Broadway debut recreating his London stage role of the Emcee in a revival of "Cabaret"
  • 1998: Had a co-starring role in the mock rockumentary "Spice World"
  • 1997: Co-starred as a former nerd in the comedy "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion"
  • 1997: Starred in "For My Baby," as a Jewish stand-up comedian taken over by the ghost of his sister
  • 1996: Featured as Reverend Elton in "Emma"
  • 1995: Had featured role as creepy Sean Walsh in "Circle of Friends," reteamed him with Minnie Driver
  • 1995: Appeared in the James Bond film "GoldenEye" as computer wiz Boris Grishenko; Driver also had supporting part
  • 1995: Co-wrote and co-starred in hit BBC-TV series "The High Life," reteaming with Forbes Masson
  • 1994: First onscreen teaming with Minnie Driver, the short "That Sunday"
  • 1994: Directoral debut, the short film "Butter"
  • 1994: First US film, "Black Beauty" (voice only)
  • 1993: Cast as the Emcee in Mendes' site-specific staging of "Cabaret"; Jane Horrocks co-starred as Sally Bowles
  • 1993: Played "Hamlet" at the experimental Donmar Warehouse Theater Sam Mendes ran in London
  • 1992: Starred in "Prague" as a man searching for a piece of film featuring his family being carted off to concentration camps
  • 1991: Featured in the comedy "Bernard and the Genie" (aired on television in Great Britain and released on video the following year in the US)
  • 1988: London stage debut in "The Conquest of the South Pole"
  • 1986: Film debut, Gillies MacKinnon's "Passing Glory"
  • Will star in the Broadway musical "SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark" as Norman Osborn (a.k.a. Green Goblin); written and directed by Julie Taymor
  • First came to attention with cabaret act "Vic and Barry," starring along with Forbes Masson