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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Filmography
all 118
Movies 72
TV Shows 46
self 28
Director 2
Producer 1
Voice 1
Narrator 1
The Gilded Age (2022)
And Just Like That… (2021)
Ratched (2020)
The Lavender Scare (2019)
Great Performers: Horror Show (2017)
The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)
Killing Reagan (2016)
A Quiet Passion (2016)
The Adderall Diaries (2016)
James White (2015)
Rasheeda Speaking (2015)
Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
5 Flights Up (2014)
Alpha House (2013)
Hannibal (2013)
Girl Most Likely (2012)
World Without End (2012)
Too Big to Fail (2011)
Rampart (2011)
The Big C (2010)
Sex and the City 2 (2010)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
An Englishman in New York (2009)
Lymelife (2008)
Sex and the City (2008)
The Babysitters (2008)
3 LBS (2006)
30 Rock (2006)
Me, Eloise (2006)
One Last Thing... (2005)
Warm Springs (2005)
House (2004)
Tanner on Tanner (2004)
The Tony Danza Show (2004)
Igby Goes Down (2002)
The Women (2002)
Mark Twain (2002)
Mark Twain (2002)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
Papa's Angels (2000)
Sex and the Matrix (2000)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Sex and the City (1998)
The View (1997)
Marvin's Room (1996)
Touched by an Angel (1994)
ER (1994)
Baby's Day Out (1994)
The Pelican Brief (1993)
GMTV (1993)
Through an Open Window (1992)
The Love She Sought (1990)
Law & Order (1990)
Let It Ride (1989)
Gideon Oliver (1989)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
Tanner '88 (1988)
O.C. and Stiggs (1987)
The Manhattan Project (1986)
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
I Am The Cheese (1983)
Fifth of July (1982)
Tattoo (1981)
Little Darlings (1980)
Tailing Pond
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1966-04-09 (58 years old)
Birth NameCynthia Ellen Nixon
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsСинтия Никсон, Cynthia Ellen Nixon, 欣希雅·尼克森
AwardsLucy Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, Theatre World Award, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
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