Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 9, 1966
Place of Birth:
New York City, New York, USA
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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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Known For
Filmography
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Celebrity Jeopardy! | Self |
| 2022 | The Gilded Age | Ada Brook |
| 2021 | And Just Like That… | Miranda Hobbes |
| 2020 | Stars in the House | Self |
| 2020 | Ratched | Gwendolyn Briggs |
| 2019 | The Kelly Clarkson Show | |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
| 2014 | Broad City | Barb |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self |
| 2013 | Alpha House | Senator Carly Armiston |
| 2013 | Hannibal | Kade Prurnell |
| 2012 | World Without End | Petranilla |
| 2010 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self |
| 2010 | The Big C | Rebecca |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
| 2006 | 3 LBS | Dr. Karin Hanson |
| 2006 | 30 Rock | Cynthia Nixon |
| 2006 | Me, Eloise | (voice) |
| 2004 | House | Anica Javanovich |
| 2004 | The Tony Danza Show | Self - Guest |
| 2004 | Tanner on Tanner | Alex Tanner |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self |
| 2002 | Mark Twain | Other Voices (voice) |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Amanda Rollins |
| 1999 | The Early Show | Self |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Janis Donovan |
| 1998 | Sex and the City | Miranda Hobbes |
| 1997 | The View | Self |
| 1997 | The View | Self - Guest |
| 1996 | Nash Bridges | |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1996 | Early Edition | Sheila |
| 1995 | New York News | |
| 1995 | The Outer Limits | Trudy |
| 1994 | ER | Ellie Shore |
| 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Melina Richardson / Sarah |
| 1993 | GMTV | Self |
| 1993 | Intimate Portrait | Self |
| 1991 | Love, Lies and Murder | Donna |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Laura Di Biasi |
| 1989 | Gideon Oliver | Allison Parrish Slocum |
| 1988 | Tanner '88 | Alex Tanner |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Self - Guest |
| 1988 | The Murder of Mary Phagan | Doreen |
| 1985 | The Equalizer | Jackie |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Alice Morgan |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Self |