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Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon

Birthday: 1966-04-09 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
The Seven Year Disappear

as    Miriam

2022
2021
And Just Like That…

as    Miranda Hobbes

2020
Ratched

as    Gwendolyn Briggs

2020
Ratched

as    Gwendolyn Briggs

2019
The Lavender Scare

as    Madeleine Tress (voice)

2019
Stray Dolls

as    Una

2018
The Parting Glass

as    Mare

2018
That's Harassment

as    Patient

2018
Maybe a Love Story

as    Toni

2017
The Only Living Boy in New York

as    Judith Webb

2017
Great Performers: Horror Show

as    The Ghost Bride

2016
A Quiet Passion

as    Emily Dickinson

2016
The Adderall Diaries

as    Jen Davis

2016
Killing Reagan

as    Nancy Reagan

2015
James White

as    Gail White

2015
Stockholm, Pennsylvania

as    Marcy Dargon

2014
5 Flights Up

as    Lily Portman

2013
The Out List

as    Herself

2012
World Without End

as    Petranilla

2012
World Without End

as    Petranilla

2011
Rampart

as    Barbara

2010
Sex and the City 2

as    Miranda Hobbes

2009
An Englishman in New York

as    Penny Arcade

2008
Sex and the City

as    Miranda Hobbes