Cynthia Nixon

Acting · 2.4 popularity

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Movies

Born: April 9, 1966
From: New York City, New York, USA
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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.

Works

74 films

Amadeus

19848.0

Addams Family Values

19937.0

Sex and the City

20086.5

Baby's Day Out

19946.4

The Pelican Brief

19936.6

Sex and the City 2

20106.0

The Babysitters

20086.0

Marvin's Room

19966.7

Little Manhattan

20057.2

Too Big to Fail

20116.9

The Only Living Boy in New York

20176.3

Let It Ride

19896.3

Rampart

20115.5

5 Flights Up

20146.0

Tattoo

19815.0

Igby Goes Down

20026.6

Warm Springs

20056.6

The Out-of-Towners

19995.8

The Manhattan Project

19866.2

James White

20156.6

Little Darlings

19806.5

A Quiet Passion

20166.0

Girl Most Likely

20125.6

Lymelife

20086.1

The Adderall Diaries

20165.3

Women and Wallace

199010.0

Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!

1995

Prince of the City

19817.0

And Just Like That... The Documentary

20226.7

My Body, My Child

19829.0

Advice From a Caterpillar

19994.2

Survivor's Guide to Prison

20186.4

Stray Dolls

20194.2

Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings

19928.0

Sex and the Matrix

20006.7

Sex and the City: The Party That Never Was

2008

The Shakespeare Sessions

20038.5

Stockholm, Pennsylvania

20155.4

The Parting Glass

20185.4

Live from the Red Carpet: Sex and the City

2008

Mark Twain

20027.1

That's Harassment

201810.0

The Lavender Scare

20195.6

One Last Thing...

20056.0

An Englishman in New York

20096.4

Sex and the City: A Farewell

20268.5

I Am the Cheese

19837.4

Killing Reagan

20166.5

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

2020

O.C. and Stiggs

19874.5

The Fabulous Fashion of 'Sex and the City'

2008

Papa's Angels

2000

The Out List

20135.9

Maybe a Love Story

20186.6

The Making of 'Sex and the City'

2026

The Seven Year Disappear

2024

The Women

20029.0

Face of a Stranger

199110.0

Keeping Company with Sondheim

20229.0

The Love She Sought

19906.8

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

2005

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

19825.3

The 'M' Word

19963.3

It's Richard I Love

1988

The Cottonwood

199610.0

Fifth of July

19827.0

True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs

202210.0

On the Set: Alex’s Loft

2004

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

20177.5

On the Set: Elaine’s

2004

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

1981

Through an Open Window

1992

The Politics of Docs

2004

Why Tanner, Why Now?

2004