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After graduating from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1985, Cumming appeared in a six part series on British Television called Shadow of the Stone with Shirley Henderson in 1986. In 1991, he played the lead in a BBC Christmas special, Bernard and the Genie opposite Lenny Henry, and went on to star in the Scottish sitcom, The High Life , for which he also wrote the theme music, playing airline steward "Sebastian Flight".
He has often been utilised as a character actor —he was the hedonistic Lord Rochester in Plunkett and Macleane ( 1997) as well as the evil scientist Fegan Floop in Spy KidsSpy Kids is a name of a movie trilogy released from 2001 to 2003. The Spy Kids movies are about the children of a married spy couple who become involved in their parents' espionage. The rest of their family are also spies as well, including their uncle an and its sequels, directed by Robert RodriguezRobert Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is a Mexican American filmmaker. He was born in San Antonio, Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin. Rodriguez debuted with the short film Bedhead and then went on to shoot the action flick El Mariachi i.
Perhaps one of Cumming's most acclaimed performances was as the charismatic Emcee in the 1998 BroadwayThis article is about the street in New York City. For other articles with the name Broadway, see: Broadway (disambiguation). Broadway as the name implies, is a big, wide avenue in New York City, New York, and is one of the main north-south thoroughfares revival of the popular stage musical CabaretCabaret is a 1966 Broadway musical, based on John Van Druten's play I Am a Camera based in its turn on stories by Christopher Isherwood, with book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander, produced and directed by Hal Prince and star, for which he won a TonyWhat is popularly called the Tony Award but is formally the Antoinette Perry Award is an annual American award celebrating achievements in theater, including musical theater. Awarded by a panel of approximately 700 judges from various areas of the industr as well as other awards that year.
His other stage roles have included Otto in the 2001 Broadway production of Design for LivingDesign for Living is a sophisticated comedy written by Noel Coward which premiered in 1932. It concerns a threesome of neurotic, camp but intensely artistic characters, Gilda, Otto and Leo. Originally written for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (as Otto and by Noel CowardSir Noel Peirce Coward (spelling his forename Noel with the diaeresis was an affectation of later life, and "Peirce" is the correct spelling) ( December 16, 1899 March 26, 1973) was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. Born at Tedd, the title role in the 1993 English Touring Theatre production of William Shakespeare's HamletThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and one of his most well-known and oft-quoted plays. Written between 1598 and the summer of 1602, this masterpiece of Elizabethan theatre first appeared in print in 1603 in a ver, and "The Madman" in the 1990 Royal National Theatre production of Accidental Death of An Anarchist by Dario Fo.
In 2001 Cumming co-wrote and co-directed the ensemble film The Anniversary Party with friend Jennifer Jason Leigh, which they both starred in as a Hollywood couple.
His first novel "Tommy's Tale" (BooksEnthsiast.com) was published in 2002 and he was one half of Victor and Barry with Forbes Masson , a comedy act revolving around two members of a Glasgow amateur theatre group.
Cumming is known to date both men and women, and described himself as "a frolicky pansexual sex symbol for the new millennium." He is also an activist for gay rights organizations and AIDS charities including Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) and Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS.
He lives in New York and London with his dog Honey.