Cynthia Nixon
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
Actor
as Miriam
as Self
as Self
as Ada Brook
as Miranda Hobbes
as Claudia
as Gwendolyn Briggs
as Self
as Madeleine Tress (voice)
as Una
as Mare
as Toni
as Self
as Patient
as The Ghost Bride
as Judith Webb
as Emily Dickinson (voice)
as Nancy Reagan
as Emily Dickinson
as Jen Davis
as Gail White
as Marcy Dargon
as Lily Portman
as Self
as Barb
as Herself
as Senator Carly Armiston
as Kade Prurnell
as Cynthia Nixon
as Petranilla
as Michele Davis
as Barbara
as Miranda Hobbes
as Rebecca
as Self
as Penny Arcade
as Self - Guest
as Melissa Bragg
as Miranda Hobbes
as Gail Beltran
as Self
as Dr. Karin Hanson
as Cynthia Nixon
as (voice)
as Leslie
as Karen Jameison
as Additional Voices
as Eleanor Roosevelt
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Anica Javanovich
as Alex Tanner
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Mrs. Piggee
as Mary Haines
as (voice)
as Other Voices (voice)
as Amanda Rollins
as Sharon Jenkins
as Miranda Hobbes
as Sheena
as Missy
as Self
as Janis Donovan
as Miranda Hobbes
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Retirement Home Director
as Donna
as Self
as Trudy
as Gilbertine
as Melina Richardson / Sarah
as Ellie Shore
as Heather
as Alice Stark
as Self
as Self
as The Granddaughter
as Nancy Cooper
as Tina Foster
as Donna
as Janet Raft
as Laura Di Biasi
as Evangeline
as Allison Parrish Slocum
as Self - Guest
as Alex Tanner
as Doreen
as Michelle
as Jenny Anderman
as Jackie
as Lorl
as Alice Morgan
as Amy Hertz
as Shirley Talley
as Nancy
as Cindy
as Jeannie
as Sue Ellen
as Sunshine
Director
as Director
as Stage Director
Producer
as Executive Producer