
Cynthia Nixon
Department: Acting
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

Amadeus
1984

Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
2005

Sex and the City
2008

The Manhattan Project
1986

Baby's Day Out
1994

Lymelife
2008

Little Darlings
1980

O.C. and Stiggs
1987

Marvin's Room
1996

The Babysitters
2008

An Englishman in New York
2009

One Last Thing...
2005

Sex and the City 2
2010

Little Manhattan
2005

Too Big to Fail
2011

Warm Springs
2005

Let It Ride
1989

Tattoo
1981

And Just Like That... The Documentary
2022

Rampart
2011

Through an Open Window
1992

Advice From a Caterpillar
1999

I Am The Cheese
1983

The Love She Sought
1990

Mark Twain
2002

The Out List
2013

The Shakespeare Sessions
2003

Keeping Company with Sondheim
2022

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
1981

Face of a Stranger
1991

Girl Most Likely
2012

5 Flights Up
2014

Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
1992

It's Richard I Love
1988

The Women
2002

Stockholm, Pennsylvania
2015

Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
1982

James White
2015

The Adderall Diaries
2016

The 'M' Word
1996

Addams Family Values
1993

True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
2022

Papa's Angels
2000

My Body, My Child
1982

The Seven Year Disappear
2024

A Quiet Passion
2016

Sex and the Matrix
2000

Killing Reagan
2016

The Pelican Brief
1993

The Out-of-Towners
1999

The Only Living Boy in New York
2017

Maybe a Love Story
2018

My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
2017

The Parting Glass
2018

Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018

Igby Goes Down
2002

Fifth of July
1982

Stray Dolls
2019

The Lavender Scare
2019

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
2020

The Cottonwood
1996

That's Harassment
2018

Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
1995

Prince of the City
1981

The Politics of Docs
2004

Why Tanner, Why Now?
2004

On the Set: Elaine’s
2004

On the Set: Alex’s Loft
2004

Sex and the City: A Farewell
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Women and Wallace
1990

Nash Bridges
1996

Sex and the City
1998

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Law & Order
1990

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

House
2004

The Tony Danza Show
2004

Tanner '88
1988

The Daily Show
1996

Early Edition
1996

The View
1997

The Early Show
1999

3 lbs
2006

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999

The Equalizer
1985

ER
1994

Gideon Oliver
1989

New York News
1995

GMTV
1993

Alpha House
2013

Tanner on Tanner
2004

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001

Mark Twain
2002

The View
1997

Intimate Portrait
1993

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

Broad City
2014

The Graham Norton Show
2007

The Outer Limits
1995

30 Rock
2006

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

Who Do You Think You Are?
2010

Me, Eloise
2006

Celebrity Jeopardy!
2022

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019

Hannibal
2013

World Without End
2012

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009

The Murder of Mary Phagan
1988

Stars in the House
2020

The Gilded Age
2022

The Big C
2010

Ratched
2020

Touched by an Angel
1994

And Just Like That…
2021

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014

Great Performances
1971

Love, Lies and Murder
1991

The Affair
2014