Biography
The descendent of Utah governor Alfred Cumming, after graduating from either a Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1985, Cumming appeared in the hexad a portiin series on British Television called Shadow of the Stone with Shirley Henderson in 1986. Around 1991, he played the lead within the BBC Christmas special, Bernard & a Jinni paired Lenny Henry, and inside 1993 appeared as a villain in the BBV video The Airzone Solution. A when a result season, he starred as airline steward Sebastian Flight in the Scottish sitcom, The High Life, which he wrote (along by having a theme tune) with co-star Forbes Masson.

Cumming has typically been utilised as a character actor — he was the hedonic Lord Rochester around Plunkett and Macleane (1997) when well as a evil man of science Fegan Floop around Spy Kids and its sequels, directed by Robert Rodriguez. He was of these half of Victor and Barry with Forbes Masson, the comedy work revolving around 2 members of a Glasgow amateur theatre group.

Mayhap one of Cumming's virtually all acclaimed performances wwhen as a magnetic Master of ceremonies in the 1998 Broadway revival of the popular stage musical Cabaret, for which he won a Tony as well as more awards that season. Cumming got antecedently played the role to nifty plaudits around a production at London's famed Donmar Warehouse theatre, for which he had been nominated for an Olivier Award. Two a Broadway & Donmar Warehouse productions were directed by Sam Mendes.

His more stage roles use at times involved Otto in the 2001 Broadway production of Design for Living by Noel Coward, the name part in the 1993 English Touring Theatre production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, and "The Madman" in the 1990 Royal National Theatre production of Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo. Inside 2002, Cumming played the Pope in the foremost English-language production of Jean Genet's play Elle, which he had adapted himself from a literal translation, at the Zipper Theater in New York City.

Around 2001 Cumming co-wrote and co-directed a ensemble film The Anniversary Party with friend and previous Cabaret co-star Jennifer Jason Leigh. Them starred in the flick as a Hollywood couple.

His number one novel "Tommy's Tale" (ISBN 0141003766) was published around 2002.

He sleep in New York and London with his dog Honey.

Cumming is known up to now each men & women, & described himself as "a frolicky pansexual sex symbol for the new millennium." He is likewise an militant 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 is presently promoting his up to date line of cologne, "Cumming."

Film and television appearances
Shadow of the Stone (1987) The Conquest of the South Pole (1988) Mr. Bean (1989) Bernard and the Genie (1991) Prague (1992) Micky Love (1993) Second Best (1994) Circle of Friends (1995) GoldenEye (1995) Emma (1996) ''Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) Titus (Saturninus) (1999) Plunkett and Macleane' (1999) Eyes Wide Shut (1999) The Anniversary Party (2001) Josie and the Pussycats (2001) Spy Kids (2001) Spy Kids 2: Island Of Lost Dreams (2002) X2 (Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner) (2003) Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) Son of the Mask'' (2005)