Cynthia Nixon
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1966-04-09
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Cynthia Nixon
Biography
Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress, activist, and theater director. For her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004), she won the 2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the television show And Just Like That... (2021–present). Her other film credits include Amadeus (1984), James White (2015), and playing Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016). Nixon made her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story. Her other Broadway credits include The Real Thing (1983), Hurlyburly (1983), Indiscretions (1995), The Women (2001), and Wit (2012). She won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Rabbit Hole, the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for An Inconvenient Truth, and the 2017 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Little Foxes. Her other television roles include playing political figures Eleanor Roosevelt , Kade Prenall in NBC Hannibal Warm Springs (2005), Michele Davis in Too Big to Fail (2011), and playing Nancy Reagan in the 2016 television film Killing Reagan. In 2020, she appeared in the Netflix drama Ratched. On March 19, 2018, Nixon announced her campaign for Governor of New York as a challenger to Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo. Her platform focused on income inequality, renewable energy, establishing universal health care, stopping mass incarceration in the United States, and protecting undocumented children from deportation. She lost in the Democratic primary to Cuomo on September 13, 2018, with 34% of the vote to his 66%. Nixon was nominated as the gubernatorial candidate for the Working Families Party; the party threw its support to Cuomo after Nixon lost in the Democratic primary. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cynthia Nixon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Amadeus
Sep 19, 1984
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
Jun 01, 2005
Sex and the City
May 12, 2008
The Manhattan Project
Jun 13, 1986
Baby's Day Out
Jul 01, 1994
Lymelife
Sep 08, 2008
Little Darlings
Mar 21, 1980
O.C. and Stiggs
Jul 10, 1987
Marvin's Room
Dec 18, 1996
The Babysitters
May 09, 2008
An Englishman in New York
Feb 07, 2009
One Last Thing...
Sep 12, 2005
Sex and the City 2
May 26, 2010
Little Manhattan
Sep 26, 2005
Too Big to Fail
Nov 25, 2011
Warm Springs
Apr 30, 2005
Let It Ride
Aug 18, 1989
Tattoo
Oct 09, 1981
And Just Like That... The Documentary
Feb 03, 2022
Rampart
Nov 23, 2011
Through an Open Window
Mar 25, 1992
Advice From a Caterpillar
Feb 15, 1999
I Am The Cheese
Nov 11, 1983
The Love She Sought
Oct 21, 1990
Mark Twain
Jan 14, 2002
The Out List
Jun 26, 2013
The Shakespeare Sessions
Jan 01, 2003
Keeping Company with Sondheim
May 27, 2022
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
Apr 06, 1981
Face of a Stranger
Dec 29, 1991
Girl Most Likely
Sep 07, 2012
5 Flights Up
May 10, 2014
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
Oct 09, 1992
It's Richard I Love
May 04, 1990
The Women
Jun 18, 2002
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
Jan 23, 2015
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
Feb 27, 1982
James White
Nov 13, 2015
The Adderall Diaries
Apr 15, 2016
The 'M' Word
Jan 01, 1996
Addams Family Values
Nov 19, 1993
True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
Jun 04, 2022
Papa's Angels
Dec 03, 2000
My Body, My Child
Apr 11, 1982
The Seven Year Disappear
Mar 15, 2024
A Quiet Passion
Oct 07, 2016
Sex and the Matrix
Jun 03, 2000
Killing Reagan
Oct 16, 2016
The Pelican Brief
Sep 17, 1993
The Out-of-Towners
Apr 02, 1999
The Only Living Boy in New York
Jul 27, 2017
Great Performers: Horror Show
Dec 07, 2017
Maybe a Love Story
Jun 14, 2018
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
May 01, 2017
The Parting Glass
Jun 24, 2018
Survivor's Guide to Prison
Feb 23, 2018
Igby Goes Down
Sep 13, 2002
Fifth of July
Oct 11, 1982
Stray Dolls
Apr 27, 2019
The Lavender Scare
Jun 07, 2019
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Dec 01, 2020
The Cottonwood
Jan 01, 1996
That's Harassment
Jan 26, 2018
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
Oct 19, 1995
Prince of the City
Aug 19, 1981
The Politics of Docs
Nov 23, 2004
Why Tanner, Why Now?
Nov 23, 2004
On the Set: Elaine’s
Nov 22, 2004
On the Set: Alex’s Loft
Nov 23, 2004
Sex and the City: A Farewell
Nash Bridges
Mar 29, 1996
Sex and the City
Jun 06, 1998
Murder, She Wrote
Sep 30, 1984
Law & Order
Sep 13, 1990
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
House
Nov 16, 2004
The Tony Danza Show
Sep 13, 2004
Tanner '88
Feb 15, 1988
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
Early Edition
Sep 28, 1996
The View
Aug 11, 1997
The Early Show
Nov 01, 1999
3 LBS
Nov 14, 2006
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Sep 20, 1999
The Equalizer
Sep 18, 1985
ER
Sep 19, 1994
Gideon Oliver
Feb 20, 1989
New York News
Sep 28, 1995
GMTV
Jan 01, 1993
Alpha House
Apr 19, 2013
Tanner on Tanner
Oct 05, 2004
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Sep 30, 2001
Love, Lies and Murder
Feb 17, 1991
Mark Twain
Jan 14, 2002
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Intimate Portrait
Nov 14, 1993
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
Broad City
Jan 22, 2014
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
The Outer Limits
Mar 26, 1995
30 Rock
Oct 11, 2006
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Who Do You Think You Are?
Mar 05, 2010
Me, Eloise
Oct 10, 2006
Celebrity Jeopardy!
Sep 25, 2022
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
Hannibal
Apr 04, 2013
World Without End
Sep 04, 2012
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
The Murder of Mary Phagan
Jan 24, 1988
Stars in the House
Mar 16, 2020
The Gilded Age
Jan 24, 2022
The Big C
Aug 16, 2010
Ratched
Sep 18, 2020
Touched by an Angel
Sep 21, 1994
And Just Like That…
Dec 09, 2021
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Great Performances
Jan 28, 1971
