Alan Cumming
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Taggart (TV Series) (1983-2010)
- Feat. Mark McManus, John Hannah, Alan Cumming
- The rugged and tenacious Scottish detective (McManus) investigates the grim underside of Glasgow in a long–running series of murder cases for…
- High Life, The (TV Series) (1994)
- Feat. Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson
- Short–lived Scottish sitcom set on the fictional airline 'Air Scotia', home to the worst cabin crew in the United Kingdom, headed by the…
- Emma (1996)
- Dir. Douglas McGrath
Feat. Gwyneth Paltrow, James Cosmo, Greta Scacchi…
- A clued up reworking of Jane Austen's classic, set in 19th century England, about a congenial young lady's well–intentioned but misjudged…
- Titus (1999)
- Dir. Julie Taymor
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming…
- A ferocious, no–holds–barred reading by Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange and Alan Cumming of Shakespeare's early play, the baroque, and…
- Annie (2000)
- Dir. Rob Marshall
Feat. Kathy Bates, Alan Cumming, Alicia Morton
- Remake of the love–it–or–hate–it original, again finds the feisty carrot–top fleeing her orphan home (and a mean Kathy…
- Get Carter (2000)
- Dir. Stephen Kay
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Rachael Leigh Cook, Mickey Rourke…
- Unnecessary remake of the British hard–boiler transposes the action to the Pacific Northwest where Las Vegas mob enforcer Sylvester Stallone…
- Urbania (2000)
- Dir. Jon Shear
Feat. Dan Futterman, Alan Cumming, Matt Keesler
- Edgy indie hit following the insomniac wanderings of a dashing yuppie who is coping with the death of his partner. A hit at the 2000 Sundance Film…
- Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
- Dir. Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
Feat. Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, Rachael Leigh Cook…
- Cute, but declawed pop–biz satire derived from an ‘Archie’ comic spinoff (and TV series), in which the titular girl–band use their…
- Anniversary Party, The (2001)
- Dir. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Cumming
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Cumming, Kevin Kline…
- A wedding anniversary celebration sets the scene for a riveting expose of Hollywood private lives who play host to a large ensemble playing…
- Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
- Dir. Douglas McGrath
Feat. Stella Gonet, Christopher Plummer, Tom Courtenay…
- Able–handed version of Dicken's classic of Victorian–age injustice, that respects both the comic and tragic sides to the tale.
After…
- Shoebox Zoo (TV Series) (2004)
- Dir. Justin Molotnikov
Feat. Vivien Endicott Douglas, Jason Connery, Rik Mayall…
- An imaginative British fantasy series for children, has a Canadian exchange student (Douglas) living in Edinburgh inherit a box of toy animals, that…
- Neverwas (2005)
- Dir. Joshua Michael Stern
Feat. Ian McKellen, Aaron Eckhart, Brittany Murphy…
- Emotive, 'realist' fairytale concerns a psychiatrist (Eckhart) who discovers the magical world his deceased father (Nolte) wrote about in a Lewis…
- Sweet Land (2005)
- Dir. Ali Selim
Feat. Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Lois Smith…
- Beautifully framed romantic saga about a German mail–order bride and her would–be husband's struggle to overcome the propaganda–led…
- Gray Matters (2006)
- Dir. Sue Kramer
Feat. Heather Graham, Bridget Moynahan, Tom Cavanagh…
- Quirky lesbian romance with Heather Graham playing a woman who unexpectedly falls for her brother's gorgeous new girlfriend.
- Tin Man (TV Mini-series) (2007)
- Dir. Nick Willing
Feat. Zooey Deschanel, Alan Cumming, Neal McDonough…
- Futuristic, CGI–rich TV mini–series re–imagining the L. Frank Baum classic THE WIZARD OF OZ.
Quirk bunny Zooey Deschanel (WEEDS,…
- Riverworld (2009)
- Dir. Stuart Gillard
Feat. Alan Cumming, Tahmoh Penikett, Laura Vandervoort
- Welcome to Riverworld, a place of strange, watery beauty and the current abode of a fascinating cast of the recently (and…
- Boogie Woogie (2009)
- Dir. Duncan Ward
Feat. Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming…
- Broad satire of the modern art scene with Danny Huston as a supercilious art dealer scheming to get his hands on a rare Mondrian. Hugely…
- Dare (2009)
- Dir. Adam Salky
Feat. Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Alan Cumming…
- A drama centered around three high school seniors – an aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner – who become engaged in an…
- Good Wife, The (TV Series) (2009-2016)
- Feat. Julianne Margulies, Chris Noth, Josh Charles…
- First–rate, Golden Globe–winning series about a politician's wife who must return to the workforce after a sex and corruption scandal…
- Burlesque (2010)
- Dir. Steve Antin
Feat. Christina Aguilera, Cher, Eric Dane…
- Christina Aguilera plays a small–town singer transformed into a diva by Cher, the owner of a glamorous L.A. nightclub in this flamboyant…
- Jackboots on Whitehall (2010)
- Dir. Edward McHenry, Rory McHenry
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant…
- Batty puppet caper set in a Britain under Nazi rule, and only a rag–tag bunch of yokels and a Frenchman stand in the way. An anarchic…
- Tempest, The (2010)
- Dir. Julie Taymor
Feat. Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou…
- Julie Taymor takes on The Bard once more with distinctly eye–popping results, and in a further deviation gives Helen Mirren the role of…
- Sir Billi (2012)
- Dir. Sascha Hartmann
Feat. Sean Connery, Alan Cumming, Patrick Doyle
- Sean Connery voices an aging, skateboarding veterinarian caught up in a chaotic land–sea adventure in this action packed animation set in the…
- Any Day Now (2012)
- Dir. Travis Fine
Feat. Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Frances Fisher…
- A gay couple in the 1970s fight to earn custody of the Downs Syndrome teenager they've taken in and raised as their own in this poignant family drama.
- Battle of the Sexes, The (2017)
- Dir. Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Feat. Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Sarah Silverman…
- Entertainingly playful telling of the story behind the milestone 1973 tennis match in which the 29–year–old women's champ Billie Jean…
- Instinct (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. Alan Cumming, Bojana Novakovic, Naveen Andrews
- Police procedural based on the novel "Murder Games" by James Patterson, with Alan Cumming playing an academic and married gay man, who is lured back…
- My Old School (2022)
- Dir. Jono McLeod
Feat. Alan Cumming
- Filmmaker Jono McLeod returns to his old school in 1993 Glasgow for a nostalgic look at the unbelievable yet true story of his former classmate,…