Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 09, 1966
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
126 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Seven Year Disappear
Miriam
Celebrity Jeopardy!
Self - Contestant
True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
Self
Keeping Company with Sondheim
Self
And Just Like That... The Documentary
Self
The Gilded Age
Ada Brook
And Just Like That…
Miranda Hobbes
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Claudia
Ratched
Gwendolyn Briggs
Stars in the House
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
The Lavender Scare
Madeleine Tress (voice)
Stray Dolls
Una
The Parting Glass
Mare
Maybe a Love Story
Toni
Survivor's Guide to Prison
Self
That's Harassment
Patient
The Only Living Boy in New York
Judith Webb
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (voice)
Killing Reagan
Nancy Reagan
A Quiet Passion
Emily Dickinson
The Adderall Diaries
Jen Davis
James White
Gail White
Rasheeda Speaking
Stage Director
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
Marcy Dargon
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
The Affair
Marilyn
5 Flights Up
Lily Portman
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
Broad City
Barb
The Out List
Herself
Alpha House
Senator Carly Armiston
Hannibal
Kade Prurnell
Girl Most Likely
Cynthia Nixon
World Without End
Petranilla
Too Big to Fail
Michele Davis
Rampart
Barbara
The Big C
Rebecca
Sex and the City 2
Miranda Hobbes
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
An Englishman in New York
Penny Arcade
Lymelife
Melissa Bragg
Sex and the City: The Party That Never Was
Self
Live from the Red Carpet: Sex and the City
Self
The Fabulous Fashion of 'Sex and the City'
Self
Sex and the City
Miranda Hobbes
The Babysitters
Gail Beltran
The Graham Norton Show
Self