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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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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Rampart
  • Little Manhattan
  • Lymelife
  • The Babysitters
  • Nash Bridges
  • A Quiet Passion
  • The Young Riders
  • An Englishman in New York
  • CBS Schoolbreak Special
  • Me, Eloise
  • My Letter to the World
Known For
  • Sex and the City
  • Sex and the City
  • Sex and the City 2
  • And Just Like That...
  • Ratched
  • Baby's Day Out
  • A Quiet Passion
  • Little Manhattan
  • The Babysitters
  • James White
  • The Only Living Boy in New York
  • Lymelife
  • Marvin's Room
  • 5 Flights Up
  • The Manhattan Project
  • Warm Springs
  • Too Big to Fail
  • World Without End
  • Stockholm, Pennsylvania
  • One Last Thing...
  • The Big C
  • The Adderall Diaries

Filmography

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
2019
Stray Dolls · as Una
2018
2018
2018
That's Harassment · as Patient
2017
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
Rampart · as Barbara
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
2008
Lymelife · as Melissa Bragg
2008
Sex and the City · as Miranda Hobbes
2007
The Babysitters · as Gail Beltran
2007
2006
3 Lbs. (TV Series) · as Dr. Karin Hanson
2006
Me, Eloise (TV Series) · as (voice)
2005
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
1998
Sex and the City (TV Series) · as Miranda Hobbes
1996
Marvin's Room · as Retirement Home Director
1996
Early Edition (TV Series)
1996
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
1980
American Playhouse (TV Series) · as Sarah
1980
Little Darlings · as Sunshine
1972
The ABC Afterschool Special (TV Series) · as Amy Cassidy

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