Cynthia Nixon
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 8.636 |
Birthday | 1966-04-09 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Синтия Никсон, Cynthia Ellen Nixon, 欣希雅·尼克森, |
1984
Amadeus
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Sex and the City
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The Manhattan Project
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Baby's Day Out
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2008
Lymelife
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Little Darlings
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O.C. and Stiggs
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Marvin's Room
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The Babysitters
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An Englishman in New York
6.4/39
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One Last Thing...
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Sex and the City 2
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Little Manhattan
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Too Big to Fail
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Warm Springs
6.9/21
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Let It Ride
6.3/83
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Tattoo
5.5/15
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2022
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Rampart
5.5/361
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Through an Open Window
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Advice From a Caterpillar
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I Am The Cheese
7/6
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The Love She Sought
6.2/5
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Mark Twain
6.9/16
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The Out List
6.1/22
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The Shakespeare Sessions
7/1
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Keeping Company with Sondheim
9/1
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The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
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1991
Face of a Stranger
10/1
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2012
Girl Most Likely
5.6/254
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2014
5 Flights Up
6/305
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1992
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
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1990
It's Richard I Love
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2002
The Women
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2015
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
5.4/81
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1982
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
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James White
6.6/111
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The Adderall Diaries
5.3/208
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The 'M' Word
1/1
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1993
Addams Family Values
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True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
10/1
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2000
Papa's Angels
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1982
My Body, My Child
9/1
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The Seven Year Disappear
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2016
A Quiet Passion
6.109/174
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A Quiet Passion
2000
Sex and the Matrix
6.4/7
A spoof created for the 2000 MTV Movie Awards, combining The Matrix and "Sex in the City".
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2016
Killing Reagan
6.6/29
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1993
The Pelican Brief
6.594/1552
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The Out-of-Towners
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The Only Living Boy in New York
6.4/325
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Great Performers: Horror Show
6.7/18
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Maybe a Love Story
6.5/33
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2017
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
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The Parting Glass
5.7/16
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2018
Survivor's Guide to Prison
6.5/33
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2002
Igby Goes Down
6.6/304
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1982
Fifth of July
7/1
Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with his lover, Jed. Traumatized and bitter, Ken struggl...
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2019
Stray Dolls
4.6/14
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2019
The Lavender Scare
6.3/6
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The Lavender Scare
2020
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
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1996
The Cottonwood
0/0
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The Cottonwood
2018
That's Harassment
10/2
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That's Harassment
1995
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
0/0
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Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
1981
Prince of the City
7/152
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Prince of the City
2004
The Politics of Docs
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2004
Why Tanner, Why Now?
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Why Tanner, Why Now?
2004
On the Set: Elaine’s
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On the Set: Elaine’s
2004
On the Set: Alex’s Loft
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