Cynthia Nixon

Known for ActingBorn 1966-04-09 (age 60)New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs

That's Harassment

Me, Eloise

Tanner on Tanner

The Cottonwood

Face of a Stranger

Women and Wallace

Keeping Company with Sondheim

The Women

My Body, My Child

House

The Shakespeare Sessions

Hannibal

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings

The Gilded Age

Ratched

Amadeus

ER

My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson

The Outer Limits

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

30 Rock

And Just Like That…

Sex and the City

Murder, She Wrote

The Big C

Alpha House

The Graham Norton Show

Early Edition

Broad City

Little Manhattan

I Am the Cheese

Law & Order

Touched by an Angel

Mark Twain

Too Big to Fail

Who Do You Think You Are?

World Without End

The Equalizer

New York News

And Just Like That... The Documentary

Addams Family Values

Gideon Oliver

The Affair

Fifth of July

Prince of the City

Maybe a Love Story