Cynthia Nixon
Acting
- Born:
- 1966-04-09
- Place of birth:
- New York City, New York, USA
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
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
The Seven Year Disappear
Celebrity Jeopardy!
True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
Keeping Company with Sondheim
And Just Like That... The Documentary
The Gilded Age
And Just Like That…
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Ratched
Stars in the House
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Lavender Scare
Stray Dolls
The Parting Glass
Maybe a Love Story
Survivor's Guide to Prison
That's Harassment
Great Performers: Horror Show
The Only Living Boy in New York
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
Killing Reagan
A Quiet Passion
The Adderall Diaries
James White
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Affair
5 Flights Up
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Broad City
The Out List
Alpha House
Hannibal
Girl Most Likely
World Without End
Too Big to Fail
Rampart
The Big C
Sex and the City 2
Who Do You Think You Are?
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
An Englishman in New York
Lymelife
Sex and the City: The Party That Never Was
The Fabulous Fashion of 'Sex and the City'
Live from the Red Carpet: Sex and the City
Sex and the City
The Babysitters
The Graham Norton Show
3 lbs
30 Rock
Me, Eloise
Little Manhattan
One Last Thing...
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
Warm Springs
The Politics of Docs
Why Tanner, Why Now?
On the Set: Alex’s Loft
On the Set: Elaine’s
House
Tanner on Tanner
The Tony Danza Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Shakespeare Sessions
Igby Goes Down
The Women
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Democracy Now!
Papa's Angels
Sex and the Matrix
The Early Show
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Out-of-Towners
Advice From a Caterpillar
Sex and the City
The View
Marvin's Room
Early Edition
The Daily Show
Nash Bridges
The 'M' Word
The Cottonwood
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
New York News
The Outer Limits
Touched by an Angel
ER
Baby's Day Out
Addams Family Values
Intimate Portrait
The Pelican Brief
GMTV
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
Through an Open Window
Face of a Stranger
Love, Lies and Murder
The Love She Sought
Law & Order
Women and Wallace
Let It Ride
Gideon Oliver
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
It's Richard I Love
Tanner '88
The Murder of Mary Phagan
O.C. and Stiggs
The Manhattan Project
The Equalizer
Murder, She Wrote
Amadeus
I Am the Cheese
Fifth of July
My Body, My Child
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
American Playhouse
Tattoo
Prince of the City
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
On The Level
Little Darlings
Great Performances
Sex and the City: A Farewell
The Making of 'Sex and the City'
Ratched