Alan Cumming began his professional career playing Malcolm in Michael Boyd’s production of Macbeth at the Tron, Glasgow in 1985. He worked extensively in Scottish theatre until 1988 when he made his London debut at the Royal Court in Conquest of the South Pole, for which he was nominated for his first Olivier Award. He won in 1991 for Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the Royal National Theatre. At the Donmar Warehouse in 1993 he played Hamlet back to back with the Emcee in Cabaret, which in 1998 transferred to Broadway and earned him his first Tony Award as well as every other theatre award that season, including being inducted into the Vanity Fair Hall of Fame. Since then, he has continued to work both in New York theatre and also extensively with the National Theatre of Scotland, most recently in The High Life musical, Burn - a dance theatre piece about our national bard, as Dionysus in The Bacchae and as nearly all the roles in Macbeth (which also transferred to Broadway). His last London appearance was opposite Daniel Radcliffe in Beckett’s Endgame. As a concert artist, he has performed in venues such at the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the London Palladium and the SEC Armadillo in Glasgow (with Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age). His film work ranges from appearances in blockbuster franchises like James Bond, Spy Kids, X Men, Toy Story and the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday to Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, The Anniversary Party (which he also wrote and directed), Titus opposite Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange, Battle of the Sexes with Emma Stone and most recently Glenrothan with Brian Cox and Shirley Henderson (whom he first worked with in the 1986 Scottish TV series Shadow of the Stone!). On television he got his start in Scotland in Taggart and Take The High Road, took to the skies in The High Life for BBC 2 (which he wrote with Forbes Masson) and in the US starred in The Good Wife (for which he was nominated for three Emmys and two Golden Globes) and appearances in Sex and the City, Frasier, The Simpsons, The L Word and Schmigadoon. Most recently he starred in Russell T Davies’ Tip Toe and is also the host of The Traitors US, for which he has won four Emmy Awards. He has written seven books including the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, Not My Father’s Son, owns Club Cumming, a New York cabaret bar, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He recently completed his first season of programmed work as Artistic Director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
