Cynthia Nixon
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1966-04-09 (59 years old)
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.
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Acting
Sex and the City: A Farewell
as Miranda Hobbs
(2024)
The Seven Year Disappear
as Miriam
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
(2020)
(2019)
Stray Dolls
as Una
(2019)
The Lavender Scare
as Madeleine Tress (voice)
(2018)
Survivor's Guide to Prison
as Self
(2018)
Maybe a Love Story
as Toni
(2018)
The Parting Glass
as Mare
(2018)
That's Harassment
as Patient
(2017)
The Only Living Boy in New York
as Judith Webb
(2017)
Great Performers: Horror Show
as The Ghost Bride
(2017)
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
as Emily Dickinson (voice)
(2016)
A Quiet Passion
as Emily Dickinson
(2016)
The Adderall Diaries
as Jen Davis
(2016)
Killing Reagan
as Nancy Reagan
(2015)
James White
as Gail White
(2015)
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
as Marcy Dargon
(2014)
5 Flights Up
as Lily Portman
(2013)
The Out List
as Herself
(2012)
Girl Most Likely
as Cynthia Nixon
(2011)
Too Big to Fail
as Michele Davis
(2011)
Rampart
as Barbara
(2010)
Sex and the City 2
as Miranda Hobbes
(2009)
An Englishman in New York
as Penny Arcade
(2008)
Sex and the City
as Miranda Hobbes
(2008)
The Babysitters
as Gail Beltran
(2008)
Lymelife
as Melissa Bragg
(2005)
Little Manhattan
as Leslie
(2005)
Warm Springs
as Eleanor Roosevelt
(2005)
One Last Thing...
as Karen Jameison
(2005)
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
as Additional Voices
(2004)
The Politics of Docs
as Self
(2004)
On the Set: Elaine’s
as Self
(2004)
Why Tanner, Why Now?
as Self
(2004)
On the Set: Alex’s Loft
as Self
(2003)
(2002)
Igby Goes Down
as Mrs. Piggee
(2002)
The Women
as Mary Haines
(2002)
Mark Twain
as (voice)
(2000)
Sex and the Matrix
as Miranda Hobbes
(2000)
Papa's Angels
as Sharon Jenkins
(1999)
The Out-of-Towners
as Sheena
(1999)
Advice From a Caterpillar
as Missy
(1996)
Marvin's Room
as Retirement Home Director
(1996)
The Cottonwood
as Donna
(1996)
(1995)
(1994)
Baby's Day Out
as Gilbertine
(1993)
Addams Family Values
as Heather
(1993)
The Pelican Brief
as Alice Stark
(1992)
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
as The Granddaughter
(1992)
Through an Open Window
as Nancy Cooper
(1991)
Face of a Stranger
as Tina Foster
(1990)
The Love She Sought
as Janet Raft
(1990)
(1989)
Let It Ride
as Evangeline
(1987)
O.C. and Stiggs
as Michelle
(1986)
The Manhattan Project
as Jenny Anderman
(1984)
Amadeus
as Lorl
(1983)
I Am The Cheese
as Amy Hertz
(1982)
(1982)
My Body, My Child
as Nancy
(1982)
Fifth of July
as Shirley Talley
(1981)
Prince of the City
as Jeannie
(1981)
Tattoo
as Cindy
(1981)
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
as Sue Ellen
(1980)
Little Darlings
as Sunshine
Crew
(2015)
Rasheeda Speaking
Stage Director