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.
Movies (63)
True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
2022
Keeping Company with Sondheim
2022
And Just Like That... The Documentary
2022
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
2020
The Lavender Scare
2019
Stray Dolls
2019
The Parting Glass
2018
Maybe a Love Story
2018
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018
That's Harassment
2018
The Only Living Boy in New York
2017
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
2017
Killing Reagan
2016
A Quiet Passion
2016
The Adderall Diaries
2016
James White
2015
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
2015
5 Flights Up
2014
The Out List
2013
Girl Most Likely
2012
Too Big to Fail
2011
Rampart
2011
Sex and the City 2
2010
An Englishman in New York
2009
Lymelife
2008
Sex and the City
2008
The Babysitters
2008
Little Manhattan
2005
One Last Thing...
2005
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
2005
Warm Springs
2005
Igby Goes Down
2002
The Women
2002
Mark Twain
2002
Papa's Angels
2000
Sex and the Matrix
2000
The Out-of-Towners
1999
Advice From a Caterpillar
1999
Marvin's Room
1996
The Cottonwood
1996
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
1995
Baby's Day Out
1994
Addams Family Values
1993
The Pelican Brief
1993
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
1992
Through an Open Window
1992
Face of a Stranger
1991
The Love She Sought
1990
Women and Wallace
1990
Let It Ride
1989
It's Richard I Love
1988
O.C. and Stiggs
1987
The Manhattan Project
1986
Amadeus
1984
I Am The Cheese
1983
Fifth of July
1982
My Body, My Child
1982
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
1982
Tattoo
1981
Prince of the City
1981
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
1981
Little Darlings
1980
Sex and the City: A Farewell
TV Shows (49)
Celebrity Jeopardy!
2022
The Gilded Age
2022
And Just Like That…
2021
Ratched
2020
Stars in the House
2020
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Affair
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Broad City
2014
Alpha House
2013
Hannibal
2013
World Without End
2012
The Big C
2010
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Graham Norton Show
2007
3 lbs
2006
30 Rock
2006
Me, Eloise
2006
House
2004
Tanner on Tanner
2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Mark Twain
2002
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
The Early Show
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Sex and the City
1998
The View
1997
The View
1997
Early Edition
1996
The Daily Show
1996
Nash Bridges
1996
New York News
1995
The Outer Limits
1995
Touched by an Angel
1994
ER
1994
Intimate Portrait
1993
GMTV
1993
Love, Lies and Murder
1991
Law & Order
1990
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Tanner '88
1988
The Murder of Mary Phagan
1988
The Equalizer
1985
Murder, She Wrote
1984
On The Level
1980
Great Performances
1971