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Cynthia Nixon
Actor, Director, ProducerBorn April 9, 1966 (58 years)
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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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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| 2022 | The Gilded Age (TV Series) · as Ada Brook |
| 2021 | And Just Like That... (TV Series) · as Miranda Hobbes |
| 2020 | Ratched (TV Series) · as Gwendolyn Briggs |
| 2019 | The Kelly Clarkson Show (TV Series) |
| 2019 | Stray Dolls · as Una |
| 2018 | The Parting Glass · as Mare |
| 2018 | Maybe a Love Story · as Toni |
| 2018 | That's Harassment · as Patient |
| 2017 | The Only Living Boy in New York · as Judith Webb |
| 2017 | The Lavender Scare · as Madeleine Tress (voice) |
| 2017 | My Letter to the World · as Emily Dickinson (voice) |
| 2016 | Killing Reagan · as Nancy Reagan |
| 2016 | A Quiet Passion · as Emily Dickinson |
| 2015 | The Adderall Diaries · as Jen Davis |
| 2015 | James White · as Gail White |
| 2015 | Stockholm, Pennsylvania · as Marcy Dargon |
| 2014 | The Affair (TV Series) · as Marilyn |
| 2014 | 5 Flights Up · as Lily Portman |
| 2014 | Broad City (TV Series) · as Barb |
| 2013 | Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's · as Miranda Hobbes |
| 2013 | Alpha House (TV Series) · as Senator Carly Armiston |
| 2013 | Hannibal (TV Series) · as Kade Prurnell |
| 2012 | World Without End (TV Series) · as Petranilla |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | Too Big to Fail · as Michele Davis |
| 2010 | The Big C (TV Series) · as Rebecca |
| 2010 | Sex and the City 2 · as Miranda Hobbes |
| 2009 | An Englishman in New York · as Penny Arcade |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | Sex and the City · as Miranda Hobbes |
| 2007 | The Babysitters · as Gail Beltran |
| 2007 | Eloise in Hollywood · as Cast |
| 2006 | 3 Lbs. (TV Series) · as Dr. Karin Hanson |
| 2006 | Me, Eloise (TV Series) · as (voice) |
| 2005 | Little Manhattan · as Leslie |
| 2005 | One Last Thing... · as Karen Jameison |
| 2005 | Warm Springs · as Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 2004 | House (TV Series) · as Anica Javanovich |
| 2004 | Tanner on Tanner (TV Series) · as Alex Tanner |
| 2003 | Sex at 24 Frames Per Second · as Miranda Hobbes |
| 2002 | Igby Goes Down · as Mrs. Piggee |
| 2002 | Stage on Screen: The Women · as Mary Haines |
| 2002 | Mark Twain (TV Series) · as Other Voices (voice) |
| 2001 | Mark Twain · as (voice) |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series) · as Amanda Rollins |
| 2000 | Papa's Angels · as Sharon Jenkins |
| 2000 | Sex and the Matrix · as Miranda Hobbes |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) · as Janis Donovan |
| 1999 | The Out-of-Towners · as Sheena |
| 1999 | Advice from a Caterpillar · as Missy |
| 1998 | Sex and the City (TV Series) · as Miranda Hobbes |
| 1996 | Marvin's Room · as Retirement Home Director |
| 1996 | Early Edition (TV Series) |
| 1996 | Nash Bridges (TV Series) |
| 1995 | New York News (TV Series) |
| 1995 | The Outer Limits (1995) (TV Series) · as Trudy |
| 1994 | Touched by an Angel (TV Series) · as Melina Richardson / Sarah |
| 1994 | ER (TV Series) · as Ellie Shore |
| 1994 | Baby's Day Out · as Gilbertine |
| 1994 | Monty (TV Series) · as Vivian Campbell |
| 1993 | Addams Family Values · as Heather |
| 1993 | The Pelican Brief · as Alice Stark |
| 1992 | Kiss-Kiss, Dahlings! · as The Granddaughter |
| 1991 | Face of a Stranger · as Tina Foster |
| 1991 | Love, Lies and Murder (TV Series) · as Donna |
| 1990 | The Love She Sought · as Janet Raft |
| 1990 | Law & Order (TV Series) · as Laura Di Biasi |
| 1989 | The Young Riders (TV Series) · as Annie |
| 1989 | Let It Ride · as Evangeline |
| 1989 | Gideon Oliver (TV Series) · as Allison Parrish Slocum |
| 1988 | Tanner '88 (TV Series) · as Alex Tanner |
| 1988 | The Murder of Mary Phagan (TV Series) · as Doreen |
| 1986 | The Manhattan Project · as Jenny Anderman |
| 1985 | The Equalizer (TV Series) · as Jackie |
| 1985 | O.C. and Stiggs · as Michelle |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Alice Morgan |
| 1984 | Amadeus · as Lorl |
| 1984 | CBS Schoolbreak Special (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1983 | I Am the Cheese · as Amy Hertz |
| 1982 | My Body, My Child · as Nancy |
| 1982 | |
| 1981 | Tattoo · as Cindy |
| 1981 | Prince of the City · as Jeannie |
| 1981 | The Private History of a Campaign That Failed · as Sue Ellen |
| 1980 | American Playhouse (TV Series) · as Sarah |
| 1980 | Little Darlings · as Sunshine |
| 1972 | The ABC Afterschool Special (TV Series) · as Amy Cassidy |