Cynthia Nixon

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

118

Gender

Female

Birthday

1966-04-09 (59 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

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

  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

  • Law & Order

    Law & Order

  • House

    House

  • The Daily Show

    The Daily Show

  • Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

  • The Kelly Clarkson Show

    The Kelly Clarkson Show

  • The Graham Norton Show

    The Graham Norton Show

  • Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • 30 Rock

    30 Rock

  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

  • Sex and the City

    Sex and the City

  • ER

    ER

  • Hannibal

    Hannibal

  • The View

    The View

  • The View

    The View

  • Great Performances

    Great Performances

  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

  • Touched by an Angel

    Touched by an Angel

  • The Equalizer

    The Equalizer

  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

    Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

  • Nash Bridges

    Nash Bridges

  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

  • The Outer Limits

    The Outer Limits

  • Stars in the House

    Stars in the House

  • Broad City

    Broad City

  • The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age

  • The Big C

    The Big C

  • And Just Like That…

    And Just Like That…

  • Intimate Portrait

    Intimate Portrait

  • The Tony Danza Show

    The Tony Danza Show

  • Early Edition

    Early Edition

  • GMTV

    GMTV

  • Amadeus

    Amadeus

  • Addams Family Values

    Addams Family Values

  • Ratched

    Ratched

  • Baby's Day Out

    Baby's Day Out

  • Sex and the City

    Sex and the City

  • Sex and the City 2

    Sex and the City 2

  • The Babysitters

    The Babysitters

  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    Who Do You Think You Are?

  • World Without End

    World Without End

  • Lymelife

    Lymelife

  • Celebrity Jeopardy!

    Celebrity Jeopardy!

  • Alpha House

    Alpha House

  • The Pelican Brief

    The Pelican Brief

  • Little Manhattan

    Little Manhattan

  • Mark Twain

    Mark Twain

  • James White

    James White

  • Stray Dolls

    Stray Dolls

  • Killing Reagan

    Killing Reagan

  • An Englishman in New York

    An Englishman in New York

  • My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson

    My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson

  • New York News

    New York News

  • Marvin's Room

    Marvin's Room

  • Tattoo

    Tattoo

  • Stockholm, Pennsylvania

    Stockholm, Pennsylvania

  • The Only Living Boy in New York

    The Only Living Boy in New York

  • Too Big to Fail

    Too Big to Fail

  • 3 lbs

    3 lbs

  • One Last Thing...

    One Last Thing...

  • The Manhattan Project

    The Manhattan Project

  • Igby Goes Down

    Igby Goes Down

  • Me, Eloise

    Me, Eloise

  • Gideon Oliver

    Gideon Oliver

  • The Parting Glass

    The Parting Glass

  • The Adderall Diaries

    The Adderall Diaries

  • And Just Like That... The Documentary

    And Just Like That... The Documentary

  • Girl Most Likely

    Girl Most Likely

  • Prince of the City

    Prince of the City

  • A Quiet Passion

    A Quiet Passion

  • Warm Springs

    Warm Springs

  • The Early Show

    The Early Show

  • That's Harassment

    That's Harassment

  • The Out-of-Towners

    The Out-of-Towners

  • Rampart

    Rampart

  • The Love She Sought

    The Love She Sought

  • Why Tanner, Why Now?

    Why Tanner, Why Now?

  • Mark Twain

    Mark Twain

  • The Murder of Mary Phagan

    The Murder of Mary Phagan

  • Survivor's Guide to Prison

    Survivor's Guide to Prison

  • Let It Ride

    Let It Ride

  • Advice From a Caterpillar

    Advice From a Caterpillar

  • Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

    Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

  • Fifth of July

    Fifth of July

  • Tanner '88

    Tanner '88

  • Face of a Stranger

    Face of a Stranger

  • 5 Flights Up

    5 Flights Up

  • O.C. and Stiggs

    O.C. and Stiggs

  • Little Darlings

    Little Darlings

  • The 'M' Word

    The 'M' Word

  • Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings

    Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings

  • Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

    Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

  • Tanner on Tanner

    Tanner on Tanner

  • Sex and the Matrix

    Sex and the Matrix

  • My Body, My Child

    My Body, My Child

  • I Am The Cheese

    I Am The Cheese

  • Papa's Angels

    Papa's Angels

  • The Lavender Scare

    The Lavender Scare

  • Love, Lies and Murder

    Love, Lies and Murder

  • Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!

    Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!

  • Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today

    Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today

  • Maybe a Love Story

    Maybe a Love Story

  • Through an Open Window

    Through an Open Window

  • The Out List

    The Out List

  • It's Richard I Love

    It's Richard I Love

  • The Women

    The Women

  • The Shakespeare Sessions

    The Shakespeare Sessions

  • The Cottonwood

    The Cottonwood

  • The Politics of Docs

    The Politics of Docs

  • Keeping Company with Sondheim

    Keeping Company with Sondheim

  • The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

    The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

  • True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs

    True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs

  • Sex and the City: A Farewell

    Sex and the City: A Farewell

  • The Seven Year Disappear

    The Seven Year Disappear

  • On the Set: Elaine’s

    On the Set: Elaine’s

  • On the Set: Alex’s Loft

    On the Set: Alex’s Loft