Alan Cumming

• Website: http://www.alancumming.com
• Biography: Eclectic Tony Award winning actor Alan Cumming, trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and is currently enjoying one of the most fruitful and creative periods in his prolific professional career.

  In 2006, Alan returned to London’s West End in Martin Sherman’s Bent, which earned him a Best Actor nomination at the What’s On Stage People’s Choice Awards. Back in the United States he won the Best First Feature at the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards for Sweet Land, which he produced and starred in. He also co produced and appeared in Showbusiness: The Road to Broadway which recently hit theaters. Alan’s latest film as a director and star, Ghost Writer, is causing a sensation on the festival circuit, with Alan winning awards at the Phoenix, Birmingham and Provincetown film festivals.

  Cumming is also no stranger to Broadway, recently starring as Mac the Knife opposite Cyndi Lauper The Threepenny Opera. Previously on the New York stage Alan played the Pope in Jean Genet's Elle, which he also adapted, and for the Roundabout he has appeared in Noel Coward’s Design for Living and Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret, for which he won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Theater World, New York Press, FANY and New York Public Advocate’s Awards. In London: Hamlet at the Donmar Warehouse (for which he won the TMA Best Actor Award and a Shakespeare Globe nomination), Cabaret (Olivier award nomination), La Bete (Olivier nomination), Conquest of the South Pole (Olivier nomination) and seasons with the RSC and the Royal National Theatre, where he won an Olivier Award for his performance in Accidental Death of an Anarchist (which he also co-adapted).

  Among his extensive film work, Cumming wrote, directed, produced and acted (with Jennifer Jason Leigh) in The Anniversary Party, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won a National Board of Review Award and two Independent Spirit Award nominations.

  Other films include: X Men 2, the Spy Kids trilogy, Eyes Wide Shut, Emma, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Urbania, Nicholas Nickleby, Titus, Goldeneye and Circle of Friends. Cumming’s television work includes The L Word and Reefer Madness on Showtime and Sex in the City on HBO. In Britain he wrote and starred in the cult sitcom The High Life as well as many other films for the BBC including Bernard and the Genie for which he won a British Comedy award.

  Alan’s activism and charity work for various civil rights and sex education causes has earned him several humanitarian awards including two Human Rights Campaign awards and GLAAD’s Vito Russo media award. He is also the author of a book, Tommy’s Tale, and has recently launched a successful fragrance and body line called - what else? - CUMMING.

  Alan recently starred in the Sci Fi Channel mini Series Tin Man, an adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in which he played the character based on the Scarecrow, Glitch. The series debuted to a huge audience, making it not only the top cable mini-series in 2007 but also the most watched event in Sci Fi history! He can currently be seen off-Broadway in the Classic Stage Company’sThe Seagull, starring opposite Dianne Wiest. Alan will next be seen on stage this summer at The 2008 Lincoln Center Festival in the North American Premiere of National Theatre of Scotland’s production of Euripides’ The Bacchae, directed by John Tiffany. Alan will be reprising his role in 13 performances between July 2 – 27th as the seductive, androgynous god Dionysus, son of Zeus and the mortal Semele, which he originated last year in his first return to the Scottish stage in 16 years for the National Theatre of Scotland at the Edinburgh International festival.