Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cynthia Nixon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Series · 2025
The Seven Year Disappear
Film · 2024
And Just Like That... The Documentary
Film · 2022
Keeping Company with Sondheim
Film · 2022
True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
Film · 2022
Celebrity Jeopardy!
Series · 2022
The Gilded Age
Series · 2022
And Just Like That…
Series · 2021
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Film · 2020
Stars in the House
Series · 2020
Ratched
Series · 2020
Stray Dolls
Film · 2019
The Lavender Scare
Film · 2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Series · 2019
Maybe a Love Story
Film · 2018
The Parting Glass
Film · 2018
Survivor's Guide to Prison
Film · 2018
That's Harassment
Film · 2018
The Only Living Boy in New York
Film · 2017
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
Film · 2017
Great Performers: Horror Show
Film · 2017
The Adderall Diaries
Film · 2016
A Quiet Passion
Film · 2016
Killing Reagan
Film · 2016
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
Film · 2015
James White
Film · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
5 Flights Up
Film · 2014
Broad City
Series · 2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Series · 2014
The Affair
Series · 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Series · 2014
The Out List
Film · 2013
Alpha House
Series · 2013
Hannibal
Series · 2013
Girl Most Likely
Film · 2012
World Without End
Series · 2012
Too Big to Fail
Film · 2011
Rampart
Film · 2011
Sex and the City 2
Film · 2010
Who Do You Think You Are?
Series · 2010
The Big C
Series · 2010
An Englishman in New York
Film · 2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Series · 2009
Sex and the City
Film · 2008
Lymelife
Film · 2008
The Babysitters
Film · 2008
Sex and the City: The Party That Never Was
Film · 2008
The Fabulous Fashion of 'Sex and the City'
Film · 2008
Live from the Red Carpet: Sex and the City
Film · 2008
The Graham Norton Show
Series · 2007
3 lbs
Series · 2006
30 Rock
Series · 2006
Me, Eloise
Series · 2006
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
Film · 2005
One Last Thing...
Film · 2005
Little Manhattan
Film · 2005
Warm Springs
Film · 2005
The Politics of Docs
Film · 2004
Why Tanner, Why Now?
Film · 2004
On the Set: Elaine’s
Film · 2004
On the Set: Alex’s Loft
Film · 2004
House
Series · 2004
The Tony Danza Show
Series · 2004
Tanner on Tanner
Series · 2004
The Shakespeare Sessions
Film · 2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Series · 2003
Mark Twain
Film · 2002
The Women
Film · 2002
Igby Goes Down
Film · 2002
Mark Twain
Series · 2002
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Series · 2001
Democracy Now!
Series · 2001
Papa's Angels
Film · 2000
Sex and the Matrix
Film · 2000
Advice From a Caterpillar
Film · 1999
The Out-of-Towners
Film · 1999
The Early Show
Series · 1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Series · 1999
Sex and the City
Series · 1998
The View
Series · 1997
The View
Series · 1997
Marvin's Room
Film · 1996
The 'M' Word
Film · 1996
The Cottonwood
Film · 1996
Nash Bridges
Series · 1996
The Daily Show
Series · 1996
Early Edition
Series · 1996
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
Film · 1995
New York News
Series · 1995
The Outer Limits
Series · 1995
Baby's Day Out
Film · 1994
ER
Series · 1994
Touched by an Angel
Series · 1994
Addams Family Values
Film · 1993
The Pelican Brief
Film · 1993
GMTV
Series · 1993
Intimate Portrait
Series · 1993
Through an Open Window
Film · 1992
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
Film · 1992
Face of a Stranger
Film · 1991
Love, Lies and Murder
Series · 1991
The Love She Sought
Film · 1990
Women and Wallace
Film · 1990
Law & Order
Series · 1990
Let It Ride
Film · 1989
Gideon Oliver
Series · 1989
It's Richard I Love
Film · 1988
Tanner '88
Series · 1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Series · 1988
The Murder of Mary Phagan
Series · 1988
O.C. and Stiggs
Film · 1987
The Manhattan Project
Film · 1986
The Equalizer
Series · 1985
Amadeus
Film · 1984
Murder, She Wrote
Series · 1984
I Am the Cheese
Film · 1983
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
Film · 1982
My Body, My Child
Film · 1982
Fifth of July
Film · 1982
American Playhouse
Series · 1982
American Playhouse
Series · 1982
Tattoo
Film · 1981
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
Film · 1981
Prince of the City
Film · 1981
Little Darlings
Film · 1980
On The Level
Series · 1980
Great Performances
Series · 1971
Sex and the City: A Farewell
Film
The Making of 'Sex and the City'
Film
Ratched
Film