Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming
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Alan Cumming is an accomplished performer whose seven seasons of work as Eli Gold on THE GOOD WIFE, earned numerous accolades, including Emmy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Satellite Award, and Critics Circle Award nominations. His additional television credits include Sex and the City, Frasier, The L Word, Web Therapy, and Tin Man. Also, he is the host of PBS' Masterpiece Mystery, he wrote and starred in the British sitcom The High Life, and he appeared in several films for the BBC.
In 2018, he starred as Dr. Dylan Reinhart in the CBS police procedural drama television series, INSTINCT, based on James Patterson's Murder Games.
Cumming made his professional acting debut in Michael Boyd's production of Macbeth at the Glasgow's Tron Theater in 1985. He went on to work extensively in the Scottish theater before his West End debut in Conquest of the South Pole earned him his first Olivier Award nomination. His career-defining Hamlet for the English Touring Theatre earned him critical acclaim, a TMA Best Actor award, and a Shakespeare Globe nomination. He won an Olivier Award for Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the Royal National Theatre.
He made his Broadway debut in 1998 when CABARET transferred to New York, winning him a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Theatre World Award, New York Press Award, and FANY Award.
Cumming's wide-ranging film career has seen him work with everyone from Stanley Kubrick to the Spice Girls and make appearances in the X-Men, Spy Kids, Flintstones, and The Smurfs franchises, as well as roles in the independent films Sweet Land, Titus, The Tempest, and Any Day Now, among others. He appeared in Battle of the Sexes, opposite Emma Stone and Steve Carrell, and starred in After Louie. Along with Jennifer Jason Leigh, he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in The Anniversary Party, which earned a National Board of Review Award and two Independent Spirit Award nominations.
As an author, Cumming made his debut with the novel Tommy's Tale, and in 2014 he released a memoir Not My Father's Son, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller, and was the recipient of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Award, two Audible awards, an Audie Award, and a Lambda Literary Award nomination. In 2016 Rizzoli published his book of stories and photographs, You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams, and in 2017 published a children's picture book created with his illustrator husband, Grant Shaffer, The Adventures of Honey and Leon.
For his humanitarian work, particularly in the field of LGBT rights and equality, Cumming has been honored by the Human Rights Commission, GLAAD, The Trevor Project, and The Matthew Shepard Foundation, among many others. From his homeland, he was honored with both the Great Scot and Icon of Scotland awards and was made an Order of the British Empire in the 2009 Queen's Honors List.
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