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Cynthia Nixon

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

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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Filmography 112

Celebrity Jeopardy!
as Self - Contestant
2022
True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
as Self
2022
Keeping Company with Sondheim
as Self
2022
And Just Like That... The Documentary
as Self
2022
The Gilded Age
as Ada Brook
2022
And Just Like That…
as Miranda Hobbes
2021
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
as Claudia
2020
Ratched
as Gwendolyn Briggs
2020
Stars in the House
as Self
2020
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
The Lavender Scare
as Madeleine Tress (voice)
2019
Stray Dolls
as Una
2019
The Parting Glass
as Mare
2018
Maybe a Love Story
as Toni
2018
Survivor's Guide to Prison
as Self
2018
That's Harassment
as Patient
2018
The Only Living Boy in New York
as Judith Webb
2017
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
as Emily Dickinson (voice)
2017
Killing Reagan
as Nancy Reagan
2016
A Quiet Passion
as Emily Dickinson
2016
The Adderall Diaries
as Jen Davis
2016
James White
as Gail White
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
as Marcy Dargon
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
The Affair
as Marilyn
2014
5 Flights Up
as Lily Portman
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
Broad City
as Barb
2014
The Out List
as Herself
2013
Alpha House
as Senator Carly Armiston
2013
Hannibal
as Kade Prurnell
2013
Girl Most Likely
as Cynthia Nixon
2012
World Without End
as Petranilla
2012
Too Big to Fail
as Michele Davis
2011
Rampart
as Barbara
2011
The Big C
as Rebecca
2010
Sex and the City 2
as Miranda Hobbes
2010
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
An Englishman in New York
as Penny Arcade
2009
Lymelife
as Melissa Bragg
2008
Sex and the City
as Miranda Hobbes
2008
The Babysitters
as Gail Beltran
2008
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
3 lbs
as Dr. Karin Hanson
2006
30 Rock
as Cynthia Nixon
2006
Me, Eloise
as (voice)
2006
Little Manhattan
as Leslie
2005
One Last Thing...
as Karen Jameison
2005
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
as Additional Voices
2005
Warm Springs
as Eleanor Roosevelt
2005
House
as Anica Javanovich
2004
Tanner on Tanner
as Alex Tanner
2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
Igby Goes Down
as Mrs. Piggee
2002
The Women
as Mary Haines
2002
Mark Twain
as (voice)
2002
Mark Twain
as Other Voices (voice)
2002
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Amanda Rollins
2001
Papa's Angels
as Sharon Jenkins
2000
Sex and the Matrix
as Miranda Hobbes
2000
The Early Show
as Self
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Janis Donovan
1999
The Out-of-Towners
as Sheena
1999
Advice From a Caterpillar
as Missy
1999
Sex and the City
as Miranda Hobbes
1998
The View
as Self
1997
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
Marvin's Room
as Retirement Home Director
1996
Early Edition
as Sheila
1996
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
Nash Bridges
as Melissa
1996
The Cottonwood
as Donna
1996
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
1995
New York News
1995
The Outer Limits
as Trudy
1995
Touched by an Angel
as Melina Richardson / Sarah
1994
ER
as Ellie Shore
1994
Baby's Day Out
as Gilbertine
1994
Addams Family Values
as Heather
1993
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
The Pelican Brief
as Alice Stark
1993
GMTV
as Self
1993
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
as The Granddaughter
1992
Through an Open Window
as Nancy Cooper
1992
Face of a Stranger
as Tina Foster
1991
Love, Lies and Murder
as Donna
1991
The Love She Sought
as Janet Raft
1990
Law & Order
as Laura Di Biasi
1990
Women and Wallace
as Sarah
1990
Let It Ride
as Evangeline
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
It's Richard I Love
1988
Tanner '88
as Alex Tanner
1988
The Murder of Mary Phagan
as Doreen
1988
O.C. and Stiggs
as Michelle
1987
The Manhattan Project
as Jenny Anderman
1986
The Equalizer
as Jackie
1985
Murder, She Wrote
as Alice Morgan
1984
Amadeus
as Lorl
1984
I Am The Cheese
as Amy Hertz
1983
Fifth of July
as Shirley Talley
1982
My Body, My Child
as Nancy
1982
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
as Alice
1982
Tattoo
as Cindy
1981
Prince of the City
as Jeannie
1981
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
as Sue Ellen
1981
On The Level
1980
Little Darlings
as Sunshine
1980
Great Performances
as Self
1971
Sex and the City: A Farewell
as Miranda Hobbs