Acting
Cynthia Nixon
EN, PT cinema · 77 credits
Born
9 April 1966 (age 60)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as Cynthia Ellen Nixon
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
Filmography
Sex and the City: A Farewell
as Miranda Hobbs
Ratched
as Gwendolyn Briggs
Stray Dolls
as Una
The Lavender Scare
as Madeleine Tress (voice)
That's Harassment
as Patient
The Only Living Boy in New York
as Judith Webb
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
as Emily Dickinson (voice)
Great Performers: Horror Show
as The Ghost Bride
The Adderall Diaries
as Jen Davis
A Quiet Passion
as Emily Dickinson
Killing Reagan
as Nancy Reagan
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
as Marcy Dargon
James White
as Gail White
Rasheeda Speaking
Stage Director
5 Flights Up
as Lily Portman
The Out List
as Herself
Girl Most Likely
as Cynthia Nixon
Too Big to Fail
as Michele Davis
Rampart
as Barbara
Sex and the City 2
as Miranda Hobbes
An Englishman in New York
as Penny Arcade
Sex and the City
as Miranda Hobbes
Lymelife
as Melissa Bragg
The Babysitters
as Gail Beltran
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
as Additional Voices
One Last Thing...
as Karen Jameison
Little Manhattan
as Leslie
Warm Springs
as Eleanor Roosevelt
Mark Twain
as (voice)
The Women
as Mary Haines
Igby Goes Down
as Mrs. Piggee
Papa's Angels
as Sharon Jenkins
Sex and the Matrix
as Miranda Hobbes
The Out-of-Towners
as Sheena
Marvin's Room
as Retirement Home Director
The Cottonwood
as Donna
Baby's Day Out
as Gilbertine
Addams Family Values
as Heather
The Pelican Brief
as Alice Stark
Through an Open Window
as Nancy Cooper
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
as The Granddaughter
Face of a Stranger
as Tina Foster
The Love She Sought
as Janet Raft
Women and Wallace
as Sarah
Let It Ride
as Evangeline
O.C. and Stiggs
as Michelle
The Manhattan Project
as Jenny Anderman
Amadeus
as Lorl
I Am the Cheese
as Amy Hertz
My Body, My Child
as Nancy
Fifth of July
as Shirley Talley
Tattoo
as Cindy
Prince of the City
as Jeannie
Little Darlings
as Sunshine