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Alan Cumming

May 2026

  • David Morrissey and Alan Cumming stand face to face at an open doorway with colorful stained glass above

    TV review
    Tip Toe review – David Morrissey is magnificent in Russell T Davies’s brutal new drama

    Refugees, homophobia, gay rights, even Trump, are all covered in this opener, which occasionally leans towards agitprop. But with excellent performances, and RTD’s storytelling brilliance, things really build from here
  • Two men standing on a street with lights and bunting down it.

    ‘How often I’m called a paedophile online is shocking’: inside Russell T Davies’s horrifying drama about rising hatred

    The creator of It’s a Sin is back – and he’s furious. His new series, Tip Toe, explores the rise of homophobia through a feud between two Manchester neighbours. He and stars Alan Cumming and David Morrissey talk death, fear and ‘joy as a form of protest’
  • Alan Cumming in a dark double-breasted suit gestures with both hands while speaking on a stage.

    ‘Bad people’: Alan Cumming criticises Bafta after N-word outburst

    The host of the film awards ceremony at which Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson shouted a racial slur has said he won’t host it again

April 2026

  • Alan Cumming and Brian Cox in Glenrothan

    Glenrothan review – Alan Cumming heads home in Brian Cox’s big-hearted brotherly drama

  • McIntyre appears to be asleep in his seat as Masson and Cumming in Air Scotia uniform knock back shorts from the trolley.

    The High Life: The Musical, Still Living It! review – Alan Cumming’s creation flies into deliriously silly panto territory

March 2026

  • Scottish actor Alan Cumming at the Baftas 2026.

    Baftas host Alan Cumming criticises BBC for ‘broadcasting slurs and censoring free speech’

    ‘What should have been an evening celebrating diversity and inclusion turned into a trauma-triggering shitshow,’ says host after racial epithet was left in the broadcast

February 2026

  • EE BAFTA Film Awards 2026 - ShowLONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 22: Wunmi Mosaku accepts the Supporting Actress Award for 'Sinners' on stage during the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2026 at The Royal Festival Hall on February 22, 2026 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart Wilson/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)

    Aesop’s fable, Kylie’s Jammie Dodger and ‘the prettiest girl in the room’: the best quotes from the 2026 Baftas

    Warwick Davis takes a swipe at Tom Cruise’s height, best actor Robert Aramayo namechecks Ethan Hawke, and Prince William calls the night’s biggest winning film ‘weird’
  • EE BAFTA Film Awards 2026 - ShowLONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 22: Robert Aramayo accepts the Leading Actor Award for 'I Swear' on stage during the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2026 at The Royal Festival Hall on February 22, 2026 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart Wilson/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA)

    One Battle After Another defeats Hamnet and Sinners at Baftas, as I Swear’s Robert Aramayo takes best actor

    Paul Thomas Anderson drama scores six awards, as Jessie Buckley becomes first Irish woman to win leading actress prize
  • Anne Hathaway wearing a tuxedo and James Franco wearing a pink dress and wig at the 2011 Academy Awards.

    ‘The trick is not being so annoying that people hate you’: is awards-show hosting the toughest gig out there?

    From the dire Hathaway and Franco double act to the charming Fey and Poehler combo, the choice of MC is vital to a show’s success. With Alan Cumming set to helm the Baftas on Sunday, here’s what he needs to know

January 2026

  • Ian McKellen in Equinox at Out in the Hills, Pitlochry Festival theatre.

    ‘I love that there’s this big gay thing in the middle of Scotland’: Ian McKellen and Graham Norton join Alan Cumming for Out in the Hills

    New LGBTQ+ festival included McKellen in a fiery monologue and Norton in conversation, as well as a queer ceilidh and ‘kilted yoga’

December 2025

  • A man and a woman walking in the snow

    ‘Criminally below the radar’: readers on their best underrated Christmas films

  • Alan Cumming has been announced as the host of the 2026 Bafta film awards.

    Alan Cumming named as host of 2026 Bafta film awards

November 2025

  • Alan Cumming newly appointed Artistic Director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Actor, singer, writer, producer and director Alan Cumming is the new Artistic Director Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry. Scotland UK 06/11/2025 © COPYRIGHT PHOTO BY MURDO MACLEOD All Rights Reserved Tel + 44 131 669 9659 Mobile +44 7831 504 531 Email: m@murdophoto.com STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY See details at http://www.murdophoto.com/T%26Cs.html No syndication, no redistribution. A22U4Y, sgealbadh, A22R4S

    ‘I’m not just putting on nice plays’: Hollywood star Alan Cumming’s plan to reignite theatre in the Scottish Highlands

    What is the effervescent new boss at Pitlochry theatre planning for his first season? Huge names, undersung stars – and a King Lear played by ‘the woman who changed my life’

October 2025

  • Pierce Brosnan as 007 in GoldenEye.Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock (1578742a) Goldeneye (James Bond), Pierce Brosnan Film and Television

    GoldenEye review – Pierce Brosnan’s ‘sexist, misogynist dinosaur’ makes his Bond movie debut

    The 1995 spy adventure introduced Brosnan as 007 and Judi Dench as M – blending high-octane action with a cheeky post-Soviet self-awareness

April 2025

  • Ncuti Gatwa (left), Varada Sethu and Lewis Cornay in Doctor Who: Lux.

    Doctor Who: episode-by-episode
    Doctor Who: Lux – season two episode two recap

    A wild ride as Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor stepped out of the TV, leaving viewers believing anything could happen

September 2024

  • Alan Cumming

    Alan Cumming named as artistic director of Scottish ‘theatre in the hills’

    Hollywood actor will ‘invite the world’s best’ to Pitlochry Festival theatre after making surprise approach for role

December 2023

  • Paapa Essiedu in a beanie hat and duffle coat, Melissa McCarthy almost unrecognisable in glasses, straight blond wig, turban hat and bright pink and turquoise fluffy coat

    Genie review – soulless Richard Curtis New York festive caper

    Melissa McCarthy’s 2,000 year-old genie grapples with modernity while granting wishes galore to home alone dad Paapa Essiedu in this blandest of festive comedies

November 2023

  • Completely subdued … Melissa McCarthy in Genie.

    Genie review – seasonal Richard Curtis comedy can’t save Christmas for anyone

    This bafflingly bland offering wastes the talents of Melissa McCarthy and Paapa Essiedu – it’s as if they removed the laughs in case they offend

March 2023

  • Liam Neeson as Philip Marlowe.

    Marlowe review – worldweary Liam Neeson makes for low-energy private eye

    Raymond Chandler’s gumshoe hero is resurrected in this period adaptation of a novel by John Banville – a film that looks good but lacks a spark

January 2023

  • Alan Cumming.

    Alan Cumming hands back his OBE citing the ‘toxicity of empire’

    Actor says recent conversations about role of monarchy ‘opened his eyes’ to suffering of Indigenous people around the world
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