Alan Cumming

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Alan Cumming: Biography

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Birth Place: Perthshire, Scotland
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 01/27/1965, Aquarius
Profession: Actor; writer; producer; director

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Alan Cumming: TV Guide News

Alan Cumming Helps Solve the Mystery! | TV Show Previews | 6/19/2008
As versatile as he is charming, Alan Cumming has not only acted on stage (Cabaret) and screen (X2, The Anniversary Party), he's penned a novel (Tommy's Tale) and even created a fragrance (Cumming). Tonight, he takes over as the host of PBS' anthology of British whodunits Masterpiece Mystery! (Sundays at 9 pm/ET). — G.J. DonnellyTV Guide: Dude, what can't you do?Alan Cumming: I can't pronounce "library" properly! [Laughs]TV Guide: What attracted you to the show?Cumming: I love PBS and I loved how campy it was with [1989–2003 host] Diana Rigg introducing the stories out of the shadows.TV Guide: Recently, you played the Scarecrow in Sci Fi's The Wizard of Oz reimagining. That zipper in your head had to hurt.Cumming: There’s this crazy thing we have called prosthetic makeup! [Laughs] The worst thing was getting my hair flattened enough so they could get the thing on. read more
On Stage: Cabaret's Cumming Back and Other Drama | Today's News: Our Take | 5/2/2007
Though it closed only three years ago, the New York Post says the Roundabout Theater Company is planning to revive their Tony-winning revival of Cabaret with the original creative team and star Alan Cumming intact.... Steven Culp (Desperate Housewives, ABC's upcoming Traveler) has a new gig, says Playbill.com, playing a pedophile in a West Coast take on the controversial drama Blackbird.... Jason Patric has exited Neil LaBute's soon-to-bow In a Dark Dark House due to "creative differences," and will be replaced by Frederick Weller.... Are you an ogre-achiever? Want to make an ass of yourself in front of NYC tourists? If you have what it takes to play the big guy or Donkey, the producers of the upcoming Shrek musical want to hear from you. Details at IWantToBeShrek.com. — Reporting by Raven Snook read more
February 14, 2007: A Little "L" on Valentine's Day | The L Word | 2/14/2007
I've noticed quite a few questions in the comments lately regarding Max's history, so I thought I'd devote a post that recaps the Moira/Max story. Now, this is purely from my memory of last season, which was a year ago, so if you remember more details or see anything I've posted in error, feel free to chime in!* * * *Meet Moira, Season 3After Jenny is found self-mutilating in season 2, she admits herself into a psychiatric ward back home in Illinois. (Too bad the psychiatric treatment didn’t seem to help her beyond the cutting! ) It's in Illinois that Jenny quickly falls in love with Moira, a soft-spoken, gentle-natured computer technician, who also happens to be pretty butch. Jenny convinces Moira to come back to LA with her, so they embark on a road trip back to Cali in Moira's truck.On this road trip, they find themselves in a really scary situation when Moira becomes the object of a brewing hate crime. Since Moira looks androgynous and acts masculine, a group of... read more
Casting About: Cumming's Going to Sci Fi's Oz | Today's News: Our Take | 1/12/2007
• Tony winner and newl-he-wed Alan Cumming has joined the cast of Tin Man, Sci Fi Channel's reimagined fantastical take on The Wizard of Oz. In the six-hour mini, Cumming will play Glitch, a character trapped in the Outer Zone (the O.Z., get it?) who's missing half his brain.• Kirstie Alley will star in And She Was, a Lifetime movie about a middle-aged screenwriter who starts passing off her work via her more demo-friendly, twentysomething nephew (Eric Christian Olsen).• Not "casting news" per se, but deal with it: Dancing with the Stars' Mario Lopez has joined Extra as a weekend-edition cohost and a daily show correspondent. read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 1/25/2006
Before Alan Cumming bids adieu to Showtime's read more

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Alan Cumming: Photos

Kristen Bell, Alan Cumming, Andy Fickman courtesy Lester Cohen/WireImage.com

Chloe Sevigny, Amy Carlson, Alan Cumming courtesy Larry Busacca/WireImage.com

Tin Man courtesy Alan Markfield/Sci Fi Channel

Tin Man courtesy Art Streiber/Sci Fi Channel

jennifer jason leigh courtesy Steve Granitz/WireImage.com

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Alan Cumming: TV Listings

Alan Cumming: Credits

Title	Year	Type
Full Grown Men (Actor - Hitchhiker)	2008	Movie
Full Grown Men (Co-Producer)	2008	Movie
GLAAD Media Awards (Appearing)	2007	TV Show Series
Gray Matters (Actor - gordy)	2007	Movie
Showbusiness: The Road To Broadway (Co-Producer)	2007	Movie