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