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 (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: Acting

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1966-04-09

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1980	Little Darlings	Sunshine	65
2	1981	The Private History of a Campaign That Failed	Sue Ellen	0
3	1981	Prince of the City	Jeannie	70
4	1981	Tattoo	Cindy	53
5	1982	Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn	Alice	50
6	1982	My Body, My Child	Nancy	90
7	1982	Fifth of July	Shirley Talley	70
8	1983	I Am The Cheese	Amy Hertz	70
9	1984	Amadeus	Lorl	80
10	1986	The Manhattan Project	Jenny Anderman	63
11	1987	O.C. and Stiggs	Michelle	47
12	1989	Let It Ride	Evangeline	63
13	1990	It's Richard I Love		0
14	1990	The Love She Sought	Janet Raft	62
15	1991	Face of a Stranger	Tina Foster	100
16	1992	Through an Open Window	Nancy Cooper	0
17	1992	Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings	The Granddaughter	0
18	1993	The Pelican Brief	Alice Stark	66
19	1993	Addams Family Values	Heather	70
20	1994	Baby's Day Out	Gilbertine	64
21	1995	Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!		0
22	1996	The 'M' Word		10
23	1996	The Cottonwood	Donna	0
24	1996	Marvin's Room	Retirement Home Director	67
25	1999	Advice From a Caterpillar	Missy	37
26	1999	The Out-of-Towners	Sheena	58
27	2000	Sex and the Matrix	Miranda Hobbes	64
28	2000	Papa's Angels	Sharon Jenkins	0
29	2002	Mark Twain	(voice)	69
30	2002	The Women	Mary Haines	0
31	2002	Igby Goes Down	Mrs. Piggee	66
32	2003	The Shakespeare Sessions		70
33	2004	On the Set: Elaine’s	Self	0
34	2004	The Politics of Docs	Self	0
35	2004	Why Tanner, Why Now?	Self	0
36	2004	On the Set: Alex’s Loft	Self	0
37	2005	Warm Springs	Eleanor Roosevelt	68
38	2005	Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today	Additional Voices	0
39	2005	One Last Thing...	Karen Jameison	60
40	2005	Little Manhattan	Leslie	72
41	2008	The Babysitters	Gail Beltran	60
42	2008	Sex and the City	Miranda Hobbes	66
43	2008	Lymelife	Melissa Bragg	61
44	2009	An Englishman in New York	Penny Arcade	64
45	2010	Sex and the City 2	Miranda Hobbes	61
46	2011	Rampart	Barbara	55
47	2011	Too Big to Fail	Michele Davis	70
48	2012	Girl Most Likely	Cynthia Nixon	56
49	2013	The Out List	Herself	61
50	2014	5 Flights Up	Lily Portman	60
51	2015	Stockholm, Pennsylvania	Marcy Dargon	54
52	2015	James White	Gail White	66
53	2016	The Adderall Diaries	Jen Davis	53
54	2016	A Quiet Passion	Emily Dickinson	61
55	2016	Killing Reagan	Nancy Reagan	66
56	2017	My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson	Emily Dickinson (voice)	75
57	2017	The Only Living Boy in New York	Judith Webb	64
58	2017	Great Performers: Horror Show	The Ghost Bride	67
59	2018	That's Harassment	Patient	100
60	2018	Survivor's Guide to Prison	Self	64
61	2018	Maybe a Love Story	Toni	65
62	2018	The Parting Glass	Mare	57
63	2019	Stray Dolls	Una	46
64	2019	The Lavender Scare	Madeleine Tress (voice)	63
65	2020	Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens	Claudia	0
66	2022	And Just Like That... The Documentary	Self	68
67	2022	Keeping Company with Sondheim	Self	90
68	2022	True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs		100
69	2024	The Seven Year Disappear	Miriam	0
70		Sex and the City: A Farewell	Miranda Hobbs	100

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Alice Morgan	75
2	1985	The Equalizer	Jackie	71
3	1988	The Murder of Mary Phagan	Doreen	58
4	1988	Tanner '88	Alex Tanner	67
5	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self - Guest	54
6	1989	Gideon Oliver	Allison Parrish Slocum	55
7	1990	Law & Order	Laura Di Biasi	74
8	1991	Love, Lies and Murder	Donna	52
9	1993	GMTV	Self	56
10	1993	Intimate Portrait	Self	45
11	1994	ER	Ellie Shore	78
12	1994	Touched by an Angel	Melina Richardson / Sarah	72
13	1995	The Outer Limits	Trudy	77
14	1995	New York News		0
15	1996	Nash Bridges		66
16	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
17	1996	Early Edition		73
18	1997	The View	Self	45
19	1997	The View	Self - Guest	45
20	1998	Sex and the City	Miranda Hobbes	74
21	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Janis Donovan	79
22	1999	The Early Show	Self	57
23	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Amanda Rollins	76
24	2002	Mark Twain	Other Voices (voice)	0
25	2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	58
26	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self - Guest	61
27	2004	Tanner on Tanner	Alex Tanner	0
28	2004	House	Anica Javanovich	86
29	2006	Me, Eloise	(voice)	100
30	2006	30 Rock	Cynthia Nixon	74
31	2006	3 LBS	Dr. Karin Hanson	42
32	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
33	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	48
34	2010	Who Do You Think You Are?	Self	66
35	2010	The Big C	Rebecca	71
36	2012	World Without End	Petranilla	69
37	2013	Hannibal	Kade Prurnell	82
38	2013	Alpha House	Senator Carly Armiston	71
39	2014	Broad City	Barb	72
40	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	54
41	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	44
42	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	65
43	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show		63
44	2020	Stars in the House	Self	0
45	2020	Ratched	Gwendolyn Briggs	77
46	2021	And Just Like That…	Miranda Hobbes	74
47	2022	The Gilded Age	Ada Brook	78
48	2022	Celebrity Jeopardy!	Self	60