Alan Cumming

Scottish American actor Alan Cumming has dazzled audiences onstage and onscreen for years, but with his boundless energy and lilting brogue, he's a natural fit for audiobooks.

This post was originally published on Audible.com.

One need only hear Cumming's narration of his own memoir, Not My Father’s Son, to understand his enrapturing appeal; he won two Audie Awards for that title, for Best Autobiography/Memoir and for Narration by Author, in addition to it being named one of Audible’s Best Books of the Year in 2014.

The Tony-winning actor has brought all of his formidable skills to Robert Louis Stevenson and Hans Christian Andersen, and has also excelled in narrating children’s books, winning an Audie in 2011. He’s even tackled Macbeth twice, in a dramatization of the original work, and in Macbeth: A Novel, a reimagining of the Bard’s famous drama, written by two veteran mystery authors. Cumming raved about the experience, saying, "Macbeth is a great play for a Scottish actor because it’s the one Shakespeare play that should be spoken in a Scottish accent...The language is very guttural. It’s talking about a landscape you understand...I know all the names of all the places."

Cumming continues to stay busy acting, and having made waves with both of his Broadway runs as the Emcee in Cabaret (in 1998 and 2014), he’s taken it to the next level and opened his own club in New York City.