Cynthia Nixon
Acting
Born 1966-04-09
New York City, New York, USA
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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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Filmography
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
House
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Graham Norton Show
Murder, She Wrote
The View
ER
30 Rock
Hannibal
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Great Performances
Sex and the City
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Touched by an Angel
The Equalizer
The Outer Limits
Early Edition
Intimate Portrait
The Affair
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Nash Bridges
GMTV
And Just Like That…
Broad City
The Gilded Age
The Tony Danza Show
American Playhouse
Ratched
Stars in the House
The Big C
Amadeus
Addams Family Values
Sex and the City
Baby's Day Out
Alpha House
Celebrity Jeopardy!
Who Do You Think You Are?
World Without End
The Pelican Brief
Sex and the City 2
New York News
The Babysitters
Marvin's Room
Me, Eloise
Little Manhattan
3 lbs
The Early Show
The Only Living Boy in New York
Too Big to Fail
Tanner '88
Let It Ride
Rampart
Tanner on Tanner
The Murder of Mary Phagan
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