Cynthia Nixon
Date of birth: 1966-04-09
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Синтия Никсон, Cynthia Ellen Nixon, 欣希雅·尼克森
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.
Movie Credits
Amadeus
1984-09-19
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
2005-06-01
The Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning short documentary explores how New York City grew
Sex and the City
2008-05-12
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girl
The Manhattan Project
1986-06-13
A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home t
Baby's Day Out
1994-07-01
Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge
Lymelife
2008-09-08
A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling ap
Little Darlings
1980-03-21
Two 15-year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose th
O.C. and Stiggs
1987-07-10
O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surround
Marvin's Room
1996-12-18
A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
The Babysitters
2008-05-09
Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for co
An Englishman in New York
2009-02-07
Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclas
One Last Thing...
2005-09-12
Sixteen-year-old Dylan is dying of cancer. When a charitable organization offers to grant Dylan his
Sex and the City 2
2010-05-26
Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda are all married now, but they're still up for a little fun in the sun
Little Manhattan
2005-09-26
Ten-year-old Gabe is just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walks into his
Too Big to Fail
2011-11-25
An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided
Warm Springs
2005-04-30
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the
Let It Ride
1989-08-18
An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it
Tattoo
1981-10-09
Karl Kinsky, an unbalanced tattoo artist, becomes obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he is h
And Just Like That... The Documentary
2022-02-03
In the late ‘90s, “Sex and the City” took television by storm with its honest and hilarious perspect
Rampart
2011-11-23
The story follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles
Through an Open Window
1992-03-25
A middle-aged suburban woman is haunted by what she believes to be a bird that is stuck in her house
Advice From a Caterpillar
1999-02-15
When it comes to romance, Missy's attitude has always been whatever. After all, her artistic career
I Am The Cheese
1983-11-11
Adapted from the Robert Cormier novel. This film follows the life of a young boy whose happy, if som
The Love She Sought
1990-10-21
An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's ex
Mark Twain
2002-01-14
Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive d
The Out List
2013-06-26
Through the voices of Americans from all walks of life, The Out List explores the identities of the
The Shakespeare Sessions
2003-01-01
Major film and television stars re-enact famous scenes from the plays of William Shakespeare .
Keeping Company with Sondheim
2022-05-27
Filmed over two years, this new documentary takes an exclusive inside look at Tony-winning director
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
1981-04-06
A Confederate soldier (Pat Hingle) tells boys to kill a man (Edward Herrmann), whose ghost comes bac
Face of a Stranger
1991-12-29
After the death of her husband, Pat learns that he gambled away all of their savings and that she's
Girl Most Likely
2012-09-07
A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in t
5 Flights Up
2014-05-10
A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become o
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
1992-10-09
This short comedy about the love of acting features a grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter in th
It's Richard I Love
1988-04-16
A neurotic love story about a woman obsessed with a man who doesn’t love her.
The Women
2002-06-18
Mary Haines's life falls apart and her social circle shatters after her husband's affair is revealed
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
2015-01-23
A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
1982-02-27
The adventures and misadventures of Tom and Huck on the Mississippi River in Missouri with their inv
James White
2015-11-13
James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he r
The Adderall Diaries
2016-04-15
Writer and Adderall enthusiast Stephen Elliott reaches a low point when his estranged father resurfa
The 'M' Word
1996-01-01
When Sarah begins to have doubts about her impending marriage to longtime boyfriend Jake, smooth-tal
Addams Family Values
1993-11-19
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy ad
True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
2022-06-04
A TV special that celebrates the stories and music that make us who we are. Offering a unique look a
Papa's Angels
2000-12-03
Arkansas furniture maker Grins Jenkins is a cheerful man and loving father to his five kids, as well
My Body, My Child
1982-04-11
A woman must choose between having an abortion or giving birth to a deformed child.
The Seven Year Disappear
2024-03-15
Naphtali’s mother, a world-famous performance artist, disappeared suddenly seven years ago. And yet,
A Quiet Passion
2016-10-07
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later ye
Sex and the Matrix
2000-06-03
A spoof created for the 2000 MTV Movie Awards, combining The Matrix and "Sex in the City".
Killing Reagan
2016-10-16
Killing Reagan explores the events surrounding the assassination attempt on president Ronald Reagan
The Pelican Brief
1993-09-17
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-r
The Out-of-Towners
1999-04-02
The adventures of married couple Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City f
The Only Living Boy in New York
2017-07-27
When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only t
Maybe a Love Story
2018-06-14
Virgílio’s quiet, predictable life unravels with one message: a breakup from a woman he doesn’t reme
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
2017-05-01
Poet Emily Dickinson, pigeonholed as the strange recluse since her death, takes you on a journey thr
The Parting Glass
2018-06-24
A family dealing with their sister's death travel across country to collect her belongings and piece
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018-02-23
Today, you're more likely to go to prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. So i
Igby Goes Down
2002-09-13
Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old m
Fifth of July
1982-10-11
Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost his legs in combat, lives in a farmhouse in rural Missouri with h
Stray Dolls
2019-04-27
Riz is a recent South Asian immigrant who takes a job at a seedy motel in a bid to start over in Ame
The Lavender Scare
2019-06-07
At the height of the Cold War, President Eisenhower deems homosexuals to be security risks. A viciou
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
2020-12-01
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a celebration of the lives lost to AIDS told in free-
The Cottonwood
1996-01-01
Four friends get three million dollars and decide to construct a screenplay of 52 stolen scenes from
That's Harassment
2018-01-26
This film is a series of six short films that depicts six different cases of sexual harassment in th
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
1995-10-19
Documentary about the creation of the iconic Broadway show
Prince of the City
1981-08-19
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help el
The Politics of Docs
2004-11-23
A look at the subjects of Tanner ‘88 and Tanner on Tanner.
Why Tanner, Why Now?
2004-11-23
A look at the inspiration behind Tanner on Tanner.
On the Set: Elaine’s
2004-11-22
A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner.
On the Set: Alex’s Loft
2004-11-23
A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner.
Sex and the City: A Farewell
In this alternative to a "the making of" on the super hit-sitcom "Sex and the City", which simply do