Cynthia Nixon
Acting • Born 1966-04-09
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cynthia Nixon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
120 credits
Amadeus
Movie • 1984
Lorl
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
Movie • 2005
Additional Voices
Sex and the City
Movie • 2008
Miranda Hobbes
The Manhattan Project
Movie • 1986
Jenny Anderman
Baby's Day Out
Movie • 1994
Gilbertine
Lymelife
Movie • 2008
Melissa Bragg
Little Darlings
Movie • 1980
Sunshine
O.C. and Stiggs
Movie • 1987
Michelle
Marvin's Room
Movie • 1996
Retirement Home Director
The Babysitters
Movie • 2008
Gail Beltran
An Englishman in New York
Movie • 2009
Penny Arcade
One Last Thing...
Movie • 2005
Karen Jameison
Sex and the City 2
Movie • 2010
Miranda Hobbes
Little Manhattan
Movie • 2005
Leslie
Too Big to Fail
Movie • 2011
Michele Davis
Warm Springs
Movie • 2005
Eleanor Roosevelt
Let It Ride
Movie • 1989
Evangeline
Tattoo
Movie • 1981
Cindy
And Just Like That... The Documentary
Movie • 2022
Self
Rampart
Movie • 2011
Barbara
Through an Open Window
Movie • 1992
Nancy Cooper
Advice From a Caterpillar
Movie • 1999
Missy
I Am The Cheese
Movie • 1983
Amy Hertz
The Love She Sought
Movie • 1990
Janet Raft
Mark Twain
Movie • 2002
(voice)
The Out List
Movie • 2013
Herself
The Shakespeare Sessions
Movie • 2003
Keeping Company with Sondheim
Movie • 2022
Self
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
Movie • 1981
Sue Ellen
Face of a Stranger
Movie • 1991
Tina Foster
Girl Most Likely
Movie • 2012
Cynthia Nixon
5 Flights Up
Movie • 2014
Lily Portman
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
Movie • 1992
The Granddaughter
It's Richard I Love
Movie • 1988
The Women
Movie • 2002
Mary Haines
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
Movie • 2015
Marcy Dargon
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
Movie • 1982
Alice
James White
Movie • 2015
Gail White
The Adderall Diaries
Movie • 2016
Jen Davis
The 'M' Word
Movie • 1996
Addams Family Values
Movie • 1993
Heather
True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
Movie • 2022
Self
Papa's Angels
Movie • 2000
Sharon Jenkins
My Body, My Child
Movie • 1982
Nancy
The Seven Year Disappear
Movie • 2024
Miriam
A Quiet Passion
Movie • 2016
Emily Dickinson
Sex and the Matrix
Movie • 2000
Miranda Hobbes
Killing Reagan
Movie • 2016
Nancy Reagan
The Pelican Brief
Movie • 1993
Alice Stark
The Out-of-Towners
Movie • 1999
Sheena
The Only Living Boy in New York
Movie • 2017
Judith Webb
Maybe a Love Story
Movie • 2018
Toni
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
Movie • 2017
Emily Dickinson (voice)
The Parting Glass
Movie • 2018
Mare
Survivor's Guide to Prison
Movie • 2018
Self
Igby Goes Down
Movie • 2002
Mrs. Piggee
Fifth of July
Movie • 1982
Shirley Talley
Stray Dolls
Movie • 2019
Una
The Lavender Scare
Movie • 2019
Madeleine Tress (voice)
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Movie • 2020
Claudia
The Cottonwood
Movie • 1996
Donna
That's Harassment
Movie • 2018
Patient
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
Movie • 1995
Prince of the City
Movie • 1981
Jeannie
The Politics of Docs
Movie • 2004
Self
Why Tanner, Why Now?
Movie • 2004
Self
On the Set: Elaine’s
Movie • 2004
Self
On the Set: Alex’s Loft
Movie • 2004
Self
Sex and the City: A Farewell
Movie
Miranda Hobbs
Women and Wallace
Movie • 1990
Sarah
Nash Bridges
TV • 1996
Melissa
Sex and the City
TV • 1998
Miranda Hobbes
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Alice Morgan
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Laura Di Biasi
House
TV • 2004
Anica Javanovich
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
The Tony Danza Show
TV • 2004
Self - Guest
Tanner '88
TV • 1988
Alex Tanner
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
Early Edition
TV • 1996
Sheila
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Early Show
TV • 1999
Self
3 lbs
TV • 2006
Dr. Karin Hanson
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Janis Donovan
The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Jackie
ER
TV • 1994
Ellie Shore
Gideon Oliver
TV • 1989
Allison Parrish Slocum
New York News
TV • 1995
GMTV
TV • 1993
Self
Alpha House
TV • 2013
Senator Carly Armiston
Tanner on Tanner
TV • 2004
Alex Tanner
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Amanda Rollins
Mark Twain
TV • 2002
Other Voices (voice)
The View
TV • 1997
Self - Guest
Intimate Portrait
TV • 1993
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
Broad City
TV • 2014
Barb
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Trudy
30 Rock
TV • 2006
Cynthia Nixon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
Who Do You Think You Are?
TV • 2010
Self
Me, Eloise
TV • 2006
(voice)
Celebrity Jeopardy!
TV • 2022
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self
Hannibal
TV • 2013
Kade Prurnell
World Without End
TV • 2012
Petranilla
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
The Murder of Mary Phagan
TV • 1988
Doreen
Stars in the House
TV • 2020
Self
The Gilded Age
TV • 2022
Ada Brook
The Big C
TV • 2010
Rebecca
Ratched
TV • 2020
Gwendolyn Briggs
Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Melina Richardson / Sarah
And Just Like That…
TV • 2021
Miranda Hobbes
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Love, Lies and Murder
TV • 1991
Donna
The Affair
TV • 2014
Marilyn