Alan Cumming
- January 5, 2024
- Tv Actor
Quick Facts
Alan Cumming Biography
| Name | Alan Cumming |
| Birthday | Jan 27 |
| Birth Year | 1965 |
| Place Of Birth | Aberfeldy |
| Birth Country | Scotland |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
| Parents | Mary Darling, Alex Cumming |
| Spouse | Grant Shaffer (m. 2012), Grant Shaffer (m. 2007–2012), Hilary Lyon (m. 1985–1993) |
Alan Cumming is one of the most popular and richest TV Actor who was born on January 27, 1965 in Aberfeldy, Scotland. Stage and screen actor who played the role of Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler in X2 and appeared on CBS’s The Good Wife in a role that garnered him two Emmy and two Screen Actors Guild nominations. His other film roles include GoldenEye, SPY kids, and Nicholas Nickleby.
He was the voice of Gusy in the 2011 film version of The Smurfs, which also starred Katy Perry.
In December 1984 Cumming made his TV debut in ITV Granada’s Travelling Man, before going on to appear later in the 1980s in the Scottish Television series Take the High Road, Taggart and Shadow of the Stone. His breakthrough role was as Bernard Bottle in the Christmas 1991 BBC comedy Bernard and the Genie, a Richard Curtis-scripted film in which he starred alongside Lenny Henry and Rowan Atkinson. He also featured in a comic relief sketch in 1993 on the popular UK TV show Blind Date with Atkinson playing Mr. Bean. Cumming went on to star as flight attendant Sebastian Flight in the BBC2 sitcom The High Life in 1995. The series was written by Cumming and co-star Forbes Masson, continuing an acting-writing partnership the two had developed since their drama school days. Also in 1995, Cumming appeared in the series Ghosts.
Cumming made his film debut in Gillies MacKinnon’s short film Passing Glory in
- His feature film debut came in 1992 when he starred alongside Sandrine Bonnaire and Bruno Ganz in Ian Sellar’s Prague, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and earned him the Best Actor award at the Atlantic Film Festival and a Scottish BAFTA Best Actor nomination. American audiences first saw him portraying the smarmy Sean Walsh, an unwanted suitor of Minnie Driver’s character, in Circle of Friends, an Irish film released in 1995. Also in 1995 he played Boris Ivanovih Grishenko in the James Bond film GoldenEye. In 1996, he had a success as the Revd Mr Elton in Emma.
He began a relationship with Grant Shaffer in 2007, and they got married in 2012.
Alan Cumming Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | TV Actor |
| House | Living in own house. |
Alan Cumming is one of the richest TV Actor from Scotland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alan Cumming 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He worked as an editor and columnist for the magazine TOPS before enrolling at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
In the UK, he worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stanley Kubrick, and the Spice Girls.
Alan Cumming OBE (born 27 January 1965) is a Scottish–American actor, comedian, singer, writer, filmmaker, and activist who has acted in numerous films, television shows, and plays. His London stage appearances include Hamlet, the Maniac in Accidental Death of an Anarchist (for which he received an Olivier Award), the lead in Bent, and The National Theatre of Scotland’s The Bacchae. On Broadway, he has appeared in The Threepenny Opera, as the master of ceremonies in Cabaret (for which he won a Tony Award), Design for Living and a one-man adaptation of Macbeth. His best-known film roles include his performances in Emma, GoldenEye, the Spy Kids trilogy, Son of the Mask, and X2. Cumming also introduces Masterpiece Mystery! for PBS and appeared on The Good Wife, for which he has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Satellite Award. A filming of his Las Vegas cabaret show, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs, aired on PBS stations in November 2016.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
| Height | 5′ 10″ |
Alan Cumming height 5′ 10″ Alan weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
Who is Alan Cumming Dating?
According to our records, Alan Cumming married to Grant Shaffer (m. 2012), Grant Shaffer (m. 2007–2012), Hilary Lyon (m. 1985–1993). As of December 1, 2023, Alan Cumming’s is not dating anyone.
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Cumming’s novel, Tommy’s Tale, was published in 2002. He has also written articles for magazines, notably as a contributing editor for Marie Claire magazine, writing on the haute couture shows in Paris, as well as what it was like for him dressing as a woman for a day. He also contributed articles to Newsweek, Modern Painters, Out, Black Book and The Wall Street Journal. He has also written introductions and prefaces to various books, including the works of Nancy Mitford, Andy Warhol, and Christopher Isherwood and wrote a chapter of If You Had Five Minutes with the President, a collection of 55+ essays by members or supporters of The Creative Coalition. In September 2017, Cumming and promoter Daniel Nardicio opened a bar in Manhattan’s East Village called Club Cumming.
Facts & Trivia
Alan Ranked on the list of most popular TV Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Scotland. Alan Cumming celebrates birthday on January 27 of every year.
Previous relationships include an eight-year marriage to actress Hilary Lyon, a two-year relationship with actress Saffron Burrows, and a six-year relationship with theatre director Nick Philippou. In 2006, Cumming stated that he “would dearly like to adopt a child”, but that his life was “too hectic” for children.