Michael Cumpsty (born February 28, 1960) is a British actor. He made his Broadway debut in the Tom Stoppard play Artist Descending a Staircase (1989). He has acted in plays such as David Hare's Racing Demon (1995), Michael Frayn's Copenhagen (2000), and Democracy (2004), and Sophie Treadwell's Machinal (2014) as well in musicals such as 1776 (1997), 42nd Street (2001), and Sunday in the Park with George (2008). He received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical nomination for his role in End of the Rainbow (2012).

Filmography

• Severance — Doug Graner
• The Gilded Age — Lord Mildmay
• The Enemy Within — Dennis Gordon
• Barry — Movie Gene Cousineau
• The Blacklist: Redemption — Robert Wilmont
• 2016Collateral Beauty — Chairman of the Board
• The OA — Dr. Leon Citro
• 2014Burning Blue — Admiral Stephensen
• Madam Secretary — Max Quinn
• Red Oaks — Priest
• 2014Seduction Theory — The Father
• 2012Downtown Express — Vadim
• Elementary — Arlen Schrader
• Boardwalk Empire — Ed Brennan
• 2010Eat Pray Love — Swami Dhavalachandra
• Mercy
• Nurse Jackie — Lou Babiak
• The Good Wife — Eric Napier
• 2008The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
• 2008The Visitor — Charles
• 2007Starting Out in the Evening — Victor
• 2006Flags of Our Fathers — Secretary Forrestal
• 2006The Ex — Jack Connor
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Bing Cullman, Mark Schaeffer
• 1999The 24 Hour Woman — Suzanne Pincus' Publicist
• 1999The Lady in Question — Klaus Gruber
• 1997Night Sins — Garrett Wright
• Night Sins — Garrett Wright
• 1997The Ice Storm — Philip Edwards
• 1996Mistrial — Terry Lynch
• Star Trek: Voyager — Lord Burleigh
• 1993Fatal Instinct — Laura's Husband
• Bob — Mr. Terhorst (voice)
• Law & Order — Tom Willis
• 1990State of Grace — Frankie's Man #3
• 1990William Shakespeare's Hamlet — Laertes
• American Experience — James Callender
• Matlock — Cameron Ivers
• Great Performances — Laertes

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2010Lafayette: The Lost Hero — Self - George Washington (voice)
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee