Alan Cumming to Host the BAFTAs

Alan Cumming will host the EE BAFTA Film Awards at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, Feb. 22. The Scottish actor, whose work spans film, theater, television and cabaret, said he thinks of himself as an outsider and credits that perspective with sustaining his career.

'What’s amazing about having an outsider’s perspective,' he said, 'is that you have a really healthy way to look at things, and you can find joy in the fact that you are different.' His screen roles range from Boris Grishenko in GoldenEye to Eli Gold on The Good Wife, and his stage work earned him a Tony for playing the Emcee in Cabaret in 1998.

He has also won Critics’ Choice, Emmy and Olivier awards, and early in his career he and Forbes Masson debuted the satirical characters Victor and Barry at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1984. Cumming is widely known as the host of Peacock’s The Traitors, filmed at Ardross Castle in the Scottish Highlands, which he has called 'Lord of the Flies with Botox.' Its fourth season, which concludes on Feb.

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