Alan Cumming OBE FRSE born January 27 1965 is a Scottish stage and screen actor singer comedian director producer and author He is best known for playing Emcee in Cabaret on stage Boris Grishenko in the James Bond movie Goldeneye Nightcrawler in X2 Fegan Floop in the Spy Kids trilogy starring as Dylan Reinhart on the series Instinct Clyde Brattle on the series Briarpatch and the recurring role of Eli Gold on the CBS series The Good Wife for which he was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards two Screen Actors Guild Awards two Golden Globe Awards and a Satellite Award 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 The National Theatre of Scotlands The Bacchae and Samuel Becketts Endgame at The Old Vic opposite Daniel Radcliffe 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 oneman adaptation of Macbeth In 2022 he received a Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the musical A Strange Loop He has written a novel Tommys Tale 2002 an autobiography Not My Fathers Son A Memoir 2014 and a topical memoir Baggage Tales from a Fully Packed Life 2019 He hosted a cable talk show called Eavesdropping with Alan Cumming and produced a line of perfumed products labelled Cumming He has also contributed opinion pieces to many publications and performed the cabaret shows I Bought a Blue Car Today and Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs In 2021 he appeared in the Apple TV series Schmigadoon On 7 November 2008 he became a dualnational and was sworn in as a citizen of the United States at a ceremony in New York City He has promoted LGBT rights MCing and attending fundraisers for many organizations and he also supports several AIDS charities
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