No, Alan Cumming Didn’t Expect to Become a Reality Star, Either: ‘Who Would’ve Thunk It?’

TheWrap magazine: The Tony Award-winning Scottish actor says his gig hosting “The Traitors” is indicative of his career: “I’ve always been eclectic and done weird, left-field things”

Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming in "The Traitors" (Peacock)

Scottish actor Alan Cumming has played lots of notable roles in his career: the nerdy computer programmer in the James Bond film “GoldenEye”; the Master of Ceremonies in Sam Mendes’ 1990s revival of “Cabaret” on London’s West End and on Broadway; the flirty desk clerk in Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut”; all the parts in a 2012 theater production of “Macbeth”; King James in “Doctor Who”; campaign manager Eli Gold in “The Good Wife”; and a 32-year-old man who goes back to secondary school in the documentary “My Old School,” in which Cumming does an uncanny job of lip-syncing a recording of the real subject, who declined to appear on camera.

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