Cynthia Nixon
Known for Acting · 125 credits
- Born
- 1966-04-09 (age 60)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Cynthia Ellen 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.
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Known For
TV Shows (51)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Janis Donovan
Law & Order
1990
as Laura Di Biasi
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
House
2004
as Anica Javanovich
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Amanda Rollins
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Alice Morgan
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
ER
1994
as Ellie Shore
The View
1997
as Self / Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Sex and the City
1998
as Miranda Hobbes
30 Rock
2006
as Cynthia Nixon
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Hannibal
2013
as Kade Prurnell
Touched by an Angel
1994
as Melina Richardson / Sarah
American Playhouse
1982
as Shirley Talley / Sarah
The Affair
2014
as Marilyn
The Equalizer
1985
as Jackie
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
Nash Bridges
1996
as Melissa
The Outer Limits
1995
as Trudy
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Early Edition
1996
as Sheila
The Gilded Age
2022
as Ada Brook
And Just Like That…
2021
as Miranda Hobbes
Stars in the House
2020
as Self
Broad City
2014
as Barb
The Tony Danza Show
2004
as Self - Guest
GMTV
1993
as Self
The Big C
2010
as Rebecca
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
as Self
Alpha House
2013
as Senator Carly Armiston
Celebrity Jeopardy!
2022
as Self - Contestant
The Early Show
1999
as Self
Ratched
2020
as Gwendolyn Briggs
World Without End
2012
as Petranilla
New York News
1995
Tanner '88
1988
as Alex Tanner
Me, Eloise
2006
as (voice)
3 lbs
2006
as Dr. Karin Hanson
Tanner on Tanner
2004
as Alex Tanner
Love, Lies and Murder
1991
as Donna
The Murder of Mary Phagan
1988
as Doreen
Gideon Oliver
1989
as Allison Parrish Slocum
Mark Twain
2002
as Other Voices (voice)
On The Level
1980
Movies (74)
The Babysitters
2008
as Gail Beltran
Sex and the City
2008
as Miranda Hobbes
Baby's Day Out
1994
as Gilbertine
Addams Family Values
1993
as Heather
Amadeus
1984
as Lorl
Sex and the City 2
2010
as Miranda Hobbes
The Pelican Brief
1993
as Alice Stark
The Only Living Boy in New York
2017
as Judith Webb
Too Big to Fail
2011
as Michele Davis
Little Manhattan
2005
as Leslie
Marvin's Room
1996
as Retirement Home Director
Stray Dolls
2019
as Una
Rampart
2011
as Barbara
5 Flights Up
2014
as Lily Portman
Tattoo
1981
as Cindy
Girl Most Likely
2012
as Cynthia Nixon
James White
2015
as Gail White
The Adderall Diaries
2016
as Jen Davis
Prince of the City
1981
as Jeannie
Warm Springs
2005
as Eleanor Roosevelt
The Manhattan Project
1986
as Jenny Anderman
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
2015
as Marcy Dargon
Women and Wallace
1990
as Sarah
Sex and the Matrix
2000
as Miranda Hobbes
Igby Goes Down
2002
as Mrs. Piggee
Little Darlings
1980
as Sunshine
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
1992
as The Granddaughter
Advice From a Caterpillar
1999
as Missy
Let It Ride
1989
as Evangeline
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018
as Self
A Quiet Passion
2016
as Emily Dickinson
The Seven Year Disappear
2024
as Miriam
The Out-of-Towners
1999
as Sheena
Killing Reagan
2016
as Nancy Reagan
One Last Thing...
2005
as Karen Jameison
Sex and the City: A Farewell
as Miranda Hobbs
The Lavender Scare
2019
as Madeleine Tress (voice)
The Love She Sought
1990
as Janet Raft
I Am the Cheese
1983
as Amy Hertz
That's Harassment
2018
as Patient
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
1995
Lymelife
2008
as Melissa Bragg
Mark Twain
2002
as (voice)
The Shakespeare Sessions
2003
On the Set: Elaine’s
2004
as Self
The 'M' Word
1996
An Englishman in New York
2009
as Penny Arcade
My Body, My Child
1982
as Nancy
Live from the Red Carpet: Sex and the City
2008
as Self
The Out List
2013
as Herself
Sex and the City: The Party That Never Was
2008
as Self
The Cottonwood
1996
as Donna
Maybe a Love Story
2018
as Toni
The Parting Glass
2018
as Mare
And Just Like That... The Documentary
2022
as Self
Face of a Stranger
1991
as Tina Foster
The Fabulous Fashion of 'Sex and the City'
2008
as Self
Through an Open Window
1992
as Nancy Cooper
It's Richard I Love
1988
The Making of 'Sex and the City'
as Self
The Politics of Docs
2004
as Self
On the Set: Alex’s Loft
2004
as Self
The Women
2002
as Mary Haines
Papa's Angels
2000
as Sharon Jenkins
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
1982
as Alice
O.C. and Stiggs
1987
as Michelle
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
1981
as Sue Ellen
Why Tanner, Why Now?
2004
as Self
Fifth of July
1982
as Shirley Talley
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
2020
as Claudia
Keeping Company with Sondheim
2022
as Self
True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
2022
as Self
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
2005
as Additional Voices
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
2017
as Emily Dickinson (voice)
About Cynthia Nixon
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 (2… With 125 credits spanning from 1971 to 2024, Cynthia Nixon has appeared in 74 films and 51 TV shows.
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- The Babysitters (2008) — as Gail Beltran
- Sex and the City (2008) — as Miranda Hobbes
- Baby's Day Out (1994) — as Gilbertine
- Addams Family Values (1993) — as Heather
- Amadeus (1984) — as Lorl
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