Cynthia Nixon
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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
Credits
Sex and the City (2008)
as Miranda Hobbes
Baby's Day Out (1994)
as Gilbertine
The Babysitters (2008)
as Gail Beltran
Addams Family Values (1993)
as Heather
Amadeus (1984)
as Lorl
The Pelican Brief (1993)
as Alice Stark
Sex and the City 2 (2010)
as Miranda Hobbes
The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)
as Judith Webb
Too Big to Fail (2011)
as Michele Davis
Rampart (2011)
as Barbara
Tattoo (1981)
as Cindy
Girl Most Likely (2012)
as Cynthia Nixon
Igby Goes Down (2002)
as Mrs. Piggee
The Manhattan Project (1986)
as Jenny Anderman
The Adderall Diaries (2016)
as Jen Davis
Prince of the City (1981)
as Jeannie
Little Manhattan (2005)
as Leslie
Marvin's Room (1996)
as Retirement Home Director
5 Flights Up (2014)
as Lily Portman
Stray Dolls (2019)
as Una
James White (2015)
as Gail White
Little Darlings (1980)
as Sunshine
The Out-of-Towners (1999)
as Sheena
Warm Springs (2005)
as Eleanor Roosevelt
Advice From a Caterpillar (1999)
as Missy
Let It Ride (1989)
as Evangeline
The Shakespeare Sessions (2003)
Actor
Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
as Marcy Dargon
Women and Wallace (1990)
as Sarah
Lymelife (2008)
as Melissa Bragg
Survivor's Guide to Prison (2018)
as Self
The Love She Sought (1990)
as Janet Raft
Mark Twain (2002)
as (voice)
The Lavender Scare (2019)
as Madeleine Tress (voice)
The Seven Year Disappear (2024)
as Miriam
I Am the Cheese (1983)
as Amy Hertz
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings (1992)
as The Granddaughter
A Quiet Passion (2016)
as Emily Dickinson
Sex and the City: A Farewell (—)
as Miranda Hobbs
One Last Thing... (2005)
as Karen Jameison
An Englishman in New York (2009)
as Penny Arcade
Sex and the Matrix (2000)
as Miranda Hobbes
Sex and the City: The Party That Never Was (2008)
as Self
Killing Reagan (2016)
as Nancy Reagan
That's Harassment (2018)
as Patient
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1982)
as Alice
On the Set: Elaine’s (2004)
as Self
The Parting Glass (2018)
as Mare
Live from the Red Carpet: Sex and the City (2008)
as Self
My Body, My Child (1982)
as Nancy
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly! (1995)
Actor
It's Richard I Love (1988)
Actor
The Out List (2013)
as Herself
The Politics of Docs (2004)
as Self
The Cottonwood (1996)
as Donna
Through an Open Window (1992)
as Nancy Cooper
The 'M' Word (1996)
Actor
Maybe a Love Story (2018)
as Toni
On the Set: Alex’s Loft (2004)
as Self
True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs (2022)
as Self
Why Tanner, Why Now? (2004)
as Self
Fifth of July (1982)
as Shirley Talley
The Fabulous Fashion of 'Sex and the City' (2008)
as Self
Face of a Stranger (1991)
as Tina Foster
Papa's Angels (2000)
as Sharon Jenkins
And Just Like That... The Documentary (2022)
as Self
Keeping Company with Sondheim (2022)
as Self
The Women (2002)
as Mary Haines
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today (2005)
as Additional Voices
The Making of 'Sex and the City' (—)
as Self
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (2020)
as Claudia
O.C. and Stiggs (1987)
as Michelle
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (1981)
as Sue Ellen
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson (2017)
as Emily Dickinson (voice)