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

Lorl

Amadeus

Additional Voices

Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today

Miranda Hobbes

Sex and the City

Jenny Anderman

The Manhattan Project

Gilbertine

Baby's Day Out

Melissa Bragg

Lymelife

Sunshine

Little Darlings

Michelle

O.C. and Stiggs

Retirement Home Director

Marvin's Room

Gail Beltran

The Babysitters

Penny Arcade

An Englishman in New York

Karen Jameison

One Last Thing...

Miranda Hobbes

Sex and the City 2

Leslie

Little Manhattan

Michele Davis

Too Big to Fail

Eleanor Roosevelt

Warm Springs

Evangeline

Let It Ride

Cindy

Tattoo

Self

And Just Like That... The Documentary

Barbara

Rampart

Nancy Cooper

Through an Open Window

Missy

Advice From a Caterpillar

Amy Hertz

I Am The Cheese

Janet Raft

The Love She Sought

(voice)

Mark Twain

Herself

The Out List

The Shakespeare Sessions

Self

Keeping Company with Sondheim

Sue Ellen

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

Tina Foster

Face of a Stranger

Cynthia Nixon

Girl Most Likely

Lily Portman

5 Flights Up

The Granddaughter

Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings

It's Richard I Love

Mary Haines

The Women

Marcy Dargon

Stockholm, Pennsylvania

Alice

Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

Gail White

James White

Jen Davis

The Adderall Diaries

The 'M' Word

Heather

Addams Family Values

Self

True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs

Sharon Jenkins

Papa's Angels

Nancy

My Body, My Child

Miriam

The Seven Year Disappear

Emily Dickinson

A Quiet Passion

Miranda Hobbes

Sex and the Matrix

Nancy Reagan

Killing Reagan

Alice Stark

The Pelican Brief

Sheena

The Out-of-Towners

Judith Webb

The Only Living Boy in New York

Toni

Talvez uma História de Amor

Emily Dickinson (voice)

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

Mare

The Parting Glass

Self

Survivor's Guide to Prison

Mrs. Piggee

Igby Goes Down

Shirley Talley

Fifth of July

Una

Stray Dolls

Madeleine Tress (voice)

The Lavender Scare

Claudia

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Donna

The Cottonwood

Patient

That's Harassment

Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!

Jeannie

Prince of the City

Self

The Politics of Docs

Self

Why Tanner, Why Now?

Self

On the Set: Elaine’s

Self

On the Set: Alex’s Loft

Miranda Hobbs

Sex and the City: A Farewell