Cynthia Nixon

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

119

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

  • House

    House

  • Law & Order

    Law & Order

  • The Daily Show

    The Daily Show

  • Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

  • The Graham Norton Show

    The Graham Norton Show

  • The Kelly Clarkson Show

    The Kelly Clarkson Show

  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

  • Great Performances

    Great Performances

  • Sex and the City

    Sex and the City

  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

  • Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • ER

    ER

  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

  • 30 Rock

    30 Rock

  • The View

    The View

  • The View

    The View

  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

    Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

  • Touched by an Angel

    Touched by an Angel

  • Hannibal

    Hannibal

  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

  • The Equalizer

    The Equalizer

  • The Outer Limits

    The Outer Limits

  • GMTV

    GMTV

  • Intimate Portrait

    Intimate Portrait

  • Nash Bridges

    Nash Bridges

  • Early Edition

    Early Edition

  • The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age

  • Stars in the House

    Stars in the House

  • The Tony Danza Show

    The Tony Danza Show

  • And Just Like That…

    And Just Like That…

  • Broad City

    Broad City

  • Addams Family Values

    Addams Family Values

  • Baby's Day Out

    Baby's Day Out

  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    Who Do You Think You Are?

  • Alpha House

    Alpha House

  • The Big C

    The Big C

  • Sex and the City

    Sex and the City

  • Ratched

    Ratched

  • Amadeus

    Amadeus

  • Celebrity Jeopardy!

    Celebrity Jeopardy!

  • Sex and the City 2

    Sex and the City 2

  • Fifth of July

    Fifth of July

  • World Without End

    World Without End

  • New York News

    New York News

  • A Quiet Passion

    A Quiet Passion

  • The Manhattan Project

    The Manhattan Project

  • Little Manhattan

    Little Manhattan

  • Through an Open Window

    Through an Open Window

  • The Pelican Brief

    The Pelican Brief

  • Girl Most Likely

    Girl Most Likely

  • Let It Ride

    Let It Ride

  • Marvin's Room

    Marvin's Room

  • The 'M' Word

    The 'M' Word

  • Rampart

    Rampart

  • Tanner '88

    Tanner '88

  • And Just Like That... The Documentary

    And Just Like That... The Documentary

  • The Early Show

    The Early Show

  • Advice From a Caterpillar

    Advice From a Caterpillar

  • 5 Flights Up

    5 Flights Up

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

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

  • One Last Thing...

    One Last Thing...

  • The Babysitters

    The Babysitters

  • Me, Eloise

    Me, Eloise

  • The Women

    The Women

  • James White

    James White

  • Killing Reagan

    Killing Reagan

  • Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings

    Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings

  • Little Darlings

    Little Darlings

  • 3 LBS

    3 LBS

  • Too Big to Fail

    Too Big to Fail

  • The Parting Glass

    The Parting Glass

  • The Love She Sought

    The Love She Sought

  • The Adderall Diaries

    The Adderall Diaries

  • Lymelife

    Lymelife

  • Hasan Minhaj Doesn't Know

    Hasan Minhaj Doesn't Know

  • Tanner on Tanner

    Tanner on Tanner

  • Igby Goes Down

    Igby Goes Down

  • The Murder of Mary Phagan

    The Murder of Mary Phagan

  • Prince of the City

    Prince of the City

  • I Am The Cheese

    I Am The Cheese

  • The Cottonwood

    The Cottonwood

  • Stray Dolls

    Stray Dolls

  • An Englishman in New York

    An Englishman in New York

  • The Only Living Boy in New York

    The Only Living Boy in New York

  • Face of a Stranger

    Face of a Stranger

  • Papa's Angels

    Papa's Angels

  • Mark Twain

    Mark Twain

  • The Out-of-Towners

    The Out-of-Towners

  • Gideon Oliver

    Gideon Oliver

  • Mark Twain

    Mark Twain

  • Tattoo

    Tattoo

  • That's Harassment

    That's Harassment

  • Stockholm, Pennsylvania

    Stockholm, Pennsylvania

  • Love, Lies and Murder

    Love, Lies and Murder

  • Survivor's Guide to Prison

    Survivor's Guide to Prison

  • My Body, My Child

    My Body, My Child

  • O.C. and Stiggs

    O.C. and Stiggs

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

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

  • Warm Springs

    Warm Springs

  • Maybe a Love Story

    Maybe a Love Story

  • Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

    Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

  • The Seven Year Disappear

    The Seven Year Disappear

  • Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!

    Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!

  • True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs

    True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs

  • The Shakespeare Sessions

    The Shakespeare Sessions

  • The Out List

    The Out List

  • Sex and the Matrix

    Sex and the Matrix

  • Sex and the City: A Farewell

    Sex and the City: A Farewell

  • Keeping Company with Sondheim

    Keeping Company with Sondheim

  • It's Richard I Love

    It's Richard I Love

  • On the Set: Elaine’s

    On the Set: Elaine’s

  • On the Set: Alex’s Loft

    On the Set: Alex’s Loft

  • The Politics of Docs

    The Politics of Docs

  • The Lavender Scare

    The Lavender Scare

  • The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

    The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

  • Why Tanner, Why Now?

    Why Tanner, Why Now?

  • 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