# List of Alan Cumming performances

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

## Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1991 | Bernard and the Genie | Bernard Bottle | Television film |
| 1992 | Prague | Alexander Novak | |
| 1993 | The Airzone Solution | MacNamara | |
| 1993 | Cabaret | Emcee | Television film |
| 1993 | Micky Love | Greg Deane | Television film |
| 1994 | Second Best | Bernard | |
| 1994 | Black Beauty | Black Beauty (voice) | |
| 1995 | Circle of Friends | Sean Walsh | |
| 1995 | GoldenEye | Boris Grishenko | |
| 1996 | Emma | Philip Elton | |
| 1997 | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion | Sandy Frink | |
| 1997 | Buddy | Dick Croner | |
| 1997 | For My Baby | Daniel Orgelbrand | Television film |
| 1997 | Spice World | Piers Cuthbertson-Smyth | |
| 1999 | Titus | Saturninus | |
| 1999 | Plunkett & Macleane | Lord Rochester | |
| 1999 | Eyes Wide Shut | Hotel Desk Clerk | |
| 1999 | Annie | Daniel Francis "Rooster" Hannigan | Television film |
| 2000 | Urbania | Brett | |
| 2000 | The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas | The Great Gazoo / Mick Jagged | |
| 2000 | 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) |
| 2001 | Investigating Sex | Sevy | |
| 2001 | Josie and the Pussycats | Wyatt Frame | |
| 2001 | Spy Kids | Fegan Floop | |
| 2001 | Company Man | General Batista | |
| 2002 | CinéMagique | The Magician | Short film |
| 2002 | Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams | Fegan Floop | Cameo |
| 2002 | Nicholas Nickleby | Mr. Folair | |
| 2003 | X2 | Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler | |
| 2003 | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | Fegan Floop | Cameo |
| 2004 | Garfield: The Movie | Sir Roland / Persnikitty (voice) | |
| 2005 | Son of the Mask | Loki | |
| 2005 | Eighteen | Father Chris | |
| 2005 | Ripley Under Ground | Jeff Constant | |
| 2005 | Neverwas | Jake | |
| 2005 | Sweet Land | Frandsen | Also producer |
| 2005 | Bam Bam and Celeste | Eugene | |
| 2005 | Reefer Madness | Lecturer, Goat-man, Various characters | Television film; also known as Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical |
| 2006 | Full Grown Men | The Hitchhiker | Also co-producer |
| 2007 | Gray Matters | Gordy | |
| 2007 | Suffering Man's Charity (aka Ghost Writer) | John Vandermark | Also director and executive producer |
| 2009 | Boogie Woogie | Dewey | |
| 2009 | Dare | Grant Matson | |
| 2009 | Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva | Ian (voice) | |
| 2009 | PoliWood | Himself | Documentary |
| 2010 | The Tempest | Sebastian | |
| 2010 | Jackboots on Whitehall | Adolf Hitler, Braveheart (voice) | |
| 2010 | Burlesque | Alexis | |
| 2010 | Riverworld | Judas Caretaker | Television film |
| 2011 | The Smurfs | Gutsy Smurf (voice) | |
| 2012 | Sir Billi | Gordon The Goat (voice) | |
| 2012 | The Outback | Bog (voice) | |
| 2012 | 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 |
| 2017 | Battle of the Sexes | Ted Tinling | |
| 2018 | Show Dogs | Dante (voice) | |
| 2018 | 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. |
| 2022 | Marlowe | Lou Hendricks | |
| 2022 | My Father's Dragon | Cornelius the Crocodile (voice) | |
| 2023 | Rare Objects | Peter Kessler | |
| 2023 | Genie | Flaxman | |
| 2024 | Drive Back Home | Perley | |
| TBA | Run | Steve | Post-production |
| TBA | Glenrothan | Donal | Post-production |

## Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1984 | Travelling Man | Jamie | Episode: "Sudden Death" |
| 1986 | Taggart | Jamie McCormack | Episode: "Death Call" |
| 1986 | Take the High Road | Jim Hunter | 4 episodes |
| 1987 | Shadow of the Stone | Tom Henderson | 5 episodes |
| 1992 | Screen Two | Tulloch | Episode: "The Last Romantics" |
| 1992 | ScreenPlay | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Episode: "Dread Poets Society" |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 2002 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 2010–2016 | The Good Wife | Eli Gold | 121 episodes |
| 2011 | The Runaway | Desrae | 5 episodes |
| 2011–2015 | Web Therapy | Austen Clarke | 11 episodes |
| 2013 | Arthur | Sebastian (voice) | Episode: "Show Off/Dog's Best Friend" |
| 2014 | Dora the Explorer | White Rabbit (voice) | Episode: "Dora in Wonderland" |
| 2015 | 69th Tony Awards | Himself | Host |
| 2017 | Queers | Steve | Episode: "Something Borrowed" |
| 2018–2019 | Instinct | Dr. Dylan Reinhart | 24 episodes; also executive producer |
| 2018 | Doctor Who | King James | Episode: "The Witchfinders" |
| 2019 | Broad City | Himself | Episode: "Lost and Found" |
| 2019 | Helpsters | Dancer Dave | Episode: "Dancer Dave" |
| 2020 | Briarpatch | Clyde Brattle | 5 episodes |
| 2021 | Prodigal Son | Simon Hoxley | 2 episodes |
| 2021 | The Prince | Owen (voice) | 12 episodes |
| 2021 | 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 |
| 2022 | Bubble Guppies | The Glitch (voice) | Episode: "Robo Puppy!" |
| 2022 | 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 |
| 2024 | Scotland's Most Luxurious Railway | Himself | Presenter |
| 2025 | Doctor Who | Mr Ring-a-Ding (voice) | Series 15 |
| TBA | Rhona Who Lives by the River | Hamish (voice) | Upcoming series |

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes |
| 1989–1990 | As You Like It | Courtier, Silvius | UK tour |
| 1989–1990 | Singer | Derek, Pepper, Tim Bunty, NCO 1 | UK tour |
| 1991 | Accidental Death of an Anarchist | The Madman | Off-West End |
| 1992 | La Bête | Valère | West End |
| 1993 | Hamlet | Hamlet | UK tour |
| 1993–1994 | Cabaret | The Emcee | Off-West End |
| 1998–1999 | Cabaret | The Emcee | Second Broadway revival |
| 2001 | Design for Living | Otto | Broadway revival |
| 2002 | Elle | The Pope | Off-Broadway |
| 2006 | The Threepenny Opera | Macheath | Broadway revival |
| 2006 | Bent | Max | West End |
| 2008 | The Seagull | Boris Alexeyevitch Trigorin | Off-Broadway revival |
| 2008 | The Bacchae | Dionysus | International tour |
| 2012–2013 | Macbeth | All Roles | Broadway revival |
| 2014–2015 | Cabaret | The Emcee | Third Broadway revival |
| 2015 | Lazarus | The Killer | Cameo in filmed video insert |
| 2019 | Daddy | Andre | Off-Broadway |
| 2020 | Endgame | Hamm | London revival |
| 2020 | Rough for Theatre II | B | London revival |
| 2022 | Burn | Robert Burns | Edinburgh |
| 2024 | Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age | Himself | Broadway production |

## Video games

| Year | Title | Voice role | Notes |
| 2006 | X-Men: The Official Game | Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler | |
| 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 | |