Alan Cumming
Milestones
- Birthplace: Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Birthday: January 27, 1965
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2009
Released debut solo album, I Bought a Blue Car Today
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2008
Appeared in the indie comedy, "Full Grown Men"
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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
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2007
Cast opposite Heather Graham in the indie feature "Gray Matters"
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2006
Reprised the role of Nightcrawler in the third installment of the "X-Men" series, "X-Men: The Last Stand"
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2006
U.S. television series debut on Showtime's "The L Word," as Billie Blaikie, a party promoter
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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
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2004
Appeared in the television remake of Neil Simon's "The Goodbye Girl," with Jeff Daniels and Patricia Heaton
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2004
Starred opposite Bill Murray in "Garfield: The Movie"
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2003
Played Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in "X2"
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2003
Returned to play Fegan Floop for "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over"
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2002
Revised role as Fegan Floop in "Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams"
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2001
Acted alongside Antonio Banderas in the family comedy "Spy Kids"
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2001
Appeared with Nick Nolte in Alan Rudolph's period comedy-drama "Investigating Sex"
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2001
Co-starred with Jennifer Ehle and Dominic West in the Broadway revival of "Design for Living"
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2001
With Jennifer Jason Leigh, co-directed, co-produced, co-wrote and co-starred in "The Anniversary Party"
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2000
Cast as an AIDS-stricken gay man in the dark drama "Urbania", based on Daniel Rietz's play "Urban Folk Tales"
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2000
Had dual role of The Great Gazoo and Mick Jagged in the live-action feature "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas"
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2000
Played Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in the comedy "Company Man," co-starring Woody Allen
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1999
Co-starred with Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange in "Titus," Julie Taymor's film version of Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus"
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1999
Offered a sly turn as a lascivious hotel clerk in Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut"
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1999
Played Lord Rochester, the foppish old friend of Jonny Lee Miller's Macleane, in "Plunkett and Macleane"
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1999
Played the villainous Rooster in the ABC remake of the musical "Annie"
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1998
Had a co-starring role in the mock rockumentary "Spice World"
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1998
Made Broadway debut recreating his London stage role of the Emcee in a revival of "Cabaret"
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1997
Co-starred as a former nerd in the comedy "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion"
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1997
Starred in "For My Baby," as a Jewish stand-up comedian taken over by the ghost of his sister
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1996
Featured as Reverend Elton in "Emma"
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1995
Appeared in the James Bond film "GoldenEye" as computer wiz Boris Grishenko; Driver also had supporting part
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1995
Co-wrote and co-starred in hit BBC-TV series "The High Life," reteaming with Forbes Masson
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1995
Had featured role as creepy Sean Walsh in "Circle of Friends," reteamed him with Minnie Driver
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1994
Directoral debut, the short film "Butter"
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1994
First onscreen teaming with Minnie Driver, the short "That Sunday"
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1994
First US film, "Black Beauty" (voice only)
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1993
Cast as the Emcee in Mendes' site-specific staging of "Cabaret"; Jane Horrocks co-starred as Sally Bowles
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1993
Played "Hamlet" at the experimental Donmar Warehouse Theater Sam Mendes ran in London
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1992
Starred in "Prague" as a man searching for a piece of film featuring his family being carted off to concentration camps
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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)
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1988
London stage debut in "The Conquest of the South Pole"
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1986
Film debut, Gillies MacKinnon's "Passing Glory"
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First came to attention with cabaret act "Vic and Barry," starring along with Forbes Masson
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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