Meet Alan Cumming

Scottish-American actor Alan Cumming has dazzled audiences on stage and on the screen for years,
but with his boundless energy and lilting brogue, he was a natural fit as an audiobook narrator.
Top Performances
Greatest Hits
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Dracula [Audible Edition]
- De: Bram Stoker
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
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The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
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IS THAT NOT SO?
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-05-15
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The Cinnamon Bear: A Holiday Adventure
- De: Eric Gilliland
- Narrado por: full cast, Sarah Vowell, Alan Cumming, y otros
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Ah, remember ye olde days when the family would gather around the giant Philco radio and listen to serials? You don’t? We don’t either. But apparently that’s how Cinnamon Bear was born on November 26, 1937, as the star of a holiday season cliff-hanger-style children’s radio series. We hear it was quite the rage!
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A Classic for a New Generation
- De Colleen McNaughton en 11-29-21
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Alan Cumming: Legal Immigrant
- De: Alan Cumming
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 2 h y 16 m
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Legal Immigrant is Alan Cumming's collection of musings on his experiences as a US citizen, growing older, and what it feels like to be an immigrant in today's America, featuring songs and stories that are as eclectic and idiosyncratic as Alan himself. The audio, recorded live at the Minetta Lane Theatre, is a smorgasbord of genres, styles, and tales. Replete with laughter, tears and, of course, provocation, featuring covers of songs made famous by a diverse array of musical legends.
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Get it. Get it.
- De Yael Ernst en 11-21-19
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Hot White Heist
- De: Adam Goldman
- Narrado por: Bowen Yang, Alan Cumming, Cynthia Nixon, y otros
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Please note: This podcast is intended for adults only.
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Now THIS is original. More of this please.
- De Elling en 06-21-21
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Dracula [Audible Edition]
- De: Bram Stoker
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 27 m
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The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
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IS THAT NOT SO?
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-05-15
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The Cinnamon Bear: A Holiday Adventure
- De: Eric Gilliland
- Narrado por: full cast, Sarah Vowell, Alan Cumming, y otros
- Grabación Original
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Ah, remember ye olde days when the family would gather around the giant Philco radio and listen to serials? You don’t? We don’t either. But apparently that’s how Cinnamon Bear was born on November 26, 1937, as the star of a holiday season cliff-hanger-style children’s radio series. We hear it was quite the rage!
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A Classic for a New Generation
- De Colleen McNaughton en 11-29-21
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Alan Cumming: Legal Immigrant
- De: Alan Cumming
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 2 h y 16 m
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Legal Immigrant is Alan Cumming's collection of musings on his experiences as a US citizen, growing older, and what it feels like to be an immigrant in today's America, featuring songs and stories that are as eclectic and idiosyncratic as Alan himself. The audio, recorded live at the Minetta Lane Theatre, is a smorgasbord of genres, styles, and tales. Replete with laughter, tears and, of course, provocation, featuring covers of songs made famous by a diverse array of musical legends.
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Get it. Get it.
- De Yael Ernst en 11-21-19
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Hot White Heist
- De: Adam Goldman
- Narrado por: Bowen Yang, Alan Cumming, Cynthia Nixon, y otros
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Please note: This podcast is intended for adults only.
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Now THIS is original. More of this please.
- De Elling en 06-21-21
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Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
- De: Shaun Usher
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming, Juliet Stevenson, Kerry Shale, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters updated with 14 riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher.
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Each letter is a little treat
- De Amazon Customer en 11-03-22
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The Cutting Room
- De: Louise Welsh
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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When Rilke, a dissolute auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to discover more about the deceased owner who coveted them. Soon he finds himself sucked into an underworld of crime, depravity and secret desire, fighting for his life.
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Very good mystery with literary strength
- De RJD en 08-10-23
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Goliath
- De: Scott Westerfeld
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek’s throne as Prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a girl. (She has to pose as a boy in order to serve in the British Airforce.) And if they weren’t technically enemies. The tension thickens as the Leviathan steams toward New York City with a homicidal lunatic on board....
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Wow!
- De Eileen en 09-28-11
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Macbeth: A Novel
- De: A. J. Hartley, David Hewson
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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Macbeth: A Novel brings the intricacy and grit of the historical thriller to Shakespeare’s tale of political intrigue, treachery, and murder. In this full-length novel written exclusively for audio, authors A. J. Hartley and David Hewson rethink literature’s most infamous married couple, grounding them in a medieval Scotland whose military and political upheavals are as stark and dramatic as the landscape in which they are played.
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Narrator choice inspired
- De Beverly en 07-10-11
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Vittorio the Vampire
- De: Anne Rice
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 3 h y 1 m
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With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.
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Don't buy abridged...
- De Doug en 01-26-04
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Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
- De: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 46 m
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Two-time Emmy Award nominee ( The Good Wife) and Audie Award winner for best narrator Alan Cumming here narrates Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first-rate Yuletide whodunit "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle". Cumming adds his personal flair to the mystery classic and turns in an outstanding performance of the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his pal, Watson.
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Awesome
- De S. Spencer en 02-12-16
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Tales from Shakespeare
- The Lambs' Tales (Puffin Classics)
- De: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming, Nigel Davenport, Andrew Sachs, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
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A perfect introduction for all ages to the breadth and beauty of Shakespeare's work, Tales from Shakespearehas become a classic work in its own right. The tales bring vividly alive the power of Hamlet and Macbeth, the fun of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the drama of The Tempest. Blending detailed narrative with original dialogue and poetic language, they fully convey the wit, wisdom, and imagination of Shakespeare's magnificent plays.
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Not all of the stories
- De GPH en 08-22-18
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The Poetry of Scotland
- De: Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming, Hannah Gordon, Daniela Nardini, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 9 m
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Scottish poetry is a powerful, beautiful expression of Country and Culture. It’s proud history includes such figures as Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and many other illustrious figures. This volume of poetry is a perfect compendium of the words and works of Scotland.
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The Poetry of Scotland
- De Sandy en 07-30-11
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Behemoth
- De: Scott Westerfeld
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker powers. Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing as a commoner. Finally together aboard the airship Leviathan, they hope to bring the war to a halt. But when disaster strikes the Leviathan's peacekeeping mission, they find themselves alone and hunted in enemy territory.
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OUR MEETING IS PROVIDENCE
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 12-18-13
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Leviathan
- De: Scott Westerfeld
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. The Leviathan is a living airship, the most formidable airbeast in the skies of Europe.
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Wonderful, but don't forget to buy the book
- De Tahlia Merrill Kirk en 01-21-11
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Macbeth (Dramatized)
- De: William Shakespeare
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 1 h y 44 m
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Star of stage, film, and television Alan Cumming delivers a virtuoso performance playing every role in the National Theatre of Scotland's bold presentation of Shakespeare's chilling tale of desire, ambition, and the supernatural. This radical reimagining of one of Shakespeare's most deeply psychological plays is set in a psychiatric unit in which Cumming is the lone patient. Channeling the story of Macbeth, he is inhabited in turn by each of the characters of the drama, including some of Shakespeare's most complex and troubled creations.
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Second best to seeing this performance
- De Carole T. en 08-18-12
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Babycakes
- Tales of the City, Book 4
- De: Armistead Maupin
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.
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Maupin's 4th "Tales" Book with a Male Narrator
- De Scott en 04-07-13
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Kenny & the Dragon
- De: Tony DiTerlizzi
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 2 h y 7 m
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What do you do when your new best buddy has been designated a scourge by the community and marked for imminent extermination? Just ask Kenny Rabbit. When the simple folks in the sleepy little village of Roundbrook catch wind that there's a dragon running loose in the countryside, they get the wrong idea and the stage is set for a fight to the death.
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An uplifing tale, for adults and kids alike.
- De MXK en 09-26-18
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PREVIA: A Tech Heist
- De: Gabriela Lugo, Bettina López Mendoza, Monisa Hinrichs, y otros
- Narrado por: Melissa Fumero, Alan Cumming, full cast
- Duración: 3 h y 9 m
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Claudia’s latest invention, PREVIA, represents a groundbreaking—and potentially dangerous—new method for helping Alzheimer’s patients retrieve their memories. When the platform is stolen from her lab, Claudia immediately suspects her boss, billionaire Horge Hooglestar. But when you want to make a move against one of the most powerful men in the world, you need to think outside the box...and the law.
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Terrible
- De glass1748 en 09-15-23
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Baggage
- Tales from a Fully Packed Life
- De: Alan Cumming
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art. The release I felt in writing my first memoir, Not My Father’s Son, was matched only by how my speaking out empowered so many to engage with their own trauma. I was reminded of the power of my words and the absolute duty of authenticity.
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Entertaining but a little Helter-Skelter
- De Deborah N en 11-16-21
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Specimen Days
- De: Michael Cunningham
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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In each section of Michael Cunningham's new book, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story which takes place at the height of the Industrial Revolution, as human beings confront the alienated realities of the new machine age. "The Children's Crusade," set in the early twenty-first century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band which is detonating bombs seemingly at random around the city.
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Hit and miss.
- De Matthew en 07-26-05
Editor's Pick
"Come one, come all"
"There are few greater showmen around than Alan Cumming. He can act, sing, and dance, and let’s not forget his razor-sharp wit. And he’s never afraid to share his opinion, as he does in Legal Immigrant, exploring how his life as a Scotland-born naturalized American citizen has impacted him and shaped his views on current immigration policies. His politics are clear and so is his talent. Cumming performed and recorded the show at the Minetta Lane Theatre, eliciting laughter and poignant moments of connection, while interspersing his story with an eclectic selection of songs that lend to the theme and mood. It felt like I spent a couple of wonderful hours at a fabulous cabaret show that you now also get to experience."
More About Alan Cumming
Awards and Accolades
Tony Award Best Lead Actor in a Musical, 1998
Audie Awards 2015
Autobiography/Memoir,
Narration by Author
Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Actor in a Musical, 1998
GLAAD Vito
Russo Award, 2005
