Alan Cumming
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"Alan Cumming", Order of the British Empire/OBE, is a Scottish-American actor who has appeared in numerous films, television shows and plays.

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 (play)/Bent, and the National Theatre of Scotland's The Bacchae. On Broadway he has appeared in The Threepenny Opera, as the master of ceremonies in Cabaret (musical)/Cabaret (for which he won a Tony Award), and Design for Living. His best-known film roles include his performances in Emma (1996 theatrical film)/Emma, GoldenEye, Spy Kids, and X2 (film)/X2. Cumming also introduces Masterpiece Mystery! for PBS and appears on The Good Wife, for which he has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Satellite Award.

He has also written a novel, Tommy's Tale, and an autobiography, Not My Father's Son, had a cable talk show called Eavesdropping with Alan Cumming, and produced a line of perfumed products labelled "Cumming". He has contributed opinion pieces to many publications and performed a cabaret show, I Bought A Blue Car Today.

Retaining his British citizenship, Cumming became a naturalised citizenship in the United States/U.S. citizen in 2008.

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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.