Alan Cumming has performed with Jay Z and Liza with a Z Minnelli. He has won a Tony Award, hosted the Tonys, and been nominated for an Emmy for doing so. He has a soap called Cumming In A Bar, and a bar called Club Cumming. He made back-to-back films with Stanley Kubrick and the Spice Girls. Cumming has played God, the Devil, the Pope, a teleporting superhero, Hamlet, all the parts in Macbeth, General Batista of Cuba, a goat opposite Sean Connery, Dionysus, a Smurf (twice), the emcee in Cabaret (thrice), a James Bond baddie—oh, and political spinmeister Eli Gold on seven seasons of The Good Wife, for which he received multiple Golden Globe, Emmy, and SAG Award nominations. He is the author of five books, including a No. 1 New York Times bestselling memoir. Cumming played the first ever gay leading role on a U.S. network drama, CBS’s Instinct. He appeared on Sesame Street, Dora the Explorer, topless in Playgirl, and naked on the cover of his second album. Cumming has received over 40 awards for his humanitarianism and social activism; three honorary doctorates, both the Great Scot and Icon of Scotland awards from his homeland; and was made an OBE (Officer of the British Empire) for his contributions to the arts and LGBT equality.