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Born · April 9, 1966 (58 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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.
Miriam
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2024
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
2022
10.0
2022
Self
9.0
2022
Self
6.8
2022
Ada Brook · (17 episodes)
7.9
2022
Miranda Hobbes · (22 episodes)
7.4
2021
Claudia
0.0
2020
Gwendolyn Briggs · (8 episodes)
7.7
2020
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
2020
(1 episode)
6.2
2019
Madeleine Tress (voice)
6.3
2019
Una
4.6
2019
Mare
5.7
2018
Toni
6.5
2018
Self
6.4
2018
Patient
10.0
2018
The Ghost Bride
6.7
2017
Judith Webb
6.4
2017
Emily Dickinson (voice)
7.5
2017
Nancy Reagan
6.6
2016
Emily Dickinson
6.1
2016
Jen Davis
5.3
2016
Gail White
6.6
2015
Self · (1 episode)
6.6
2015
Marcy Dargon
5.4
2015
Self · (1 episode)
4.4
2014
Lily Portman
6.0
2014
Self · (1 episode)
5.5
2014
Barb · (1 episode)
7.2
2014
Herself
6.1
2013
Senator Carly Armiston · (6 episodes)
7.1
2013
Kade Prurnell · (4 episodes)
8.2
2013
Cynthia Nixon
5.6
2012
Petranilla · (8 episodes)
7.0
2012
Michele Davis
7.0
2011
Barbara
5.5
2011
Rebecca · (1 episode)
7.1
2010
Miranda Hobbes
6.1
2010
Self · (1 episode)
6.6
2010
Self - Guest · (7 episodes)
5.0
2009
Penny Arcade
6.4
2009
Melissa Bragg
6.1
2008
Miranda Hobbes
6.6
2008
Gail Beltran
6.0
2008
Self · (1 episode)
7.2
2007
Dr. Karin Hanson · (1 episode)
4.2
2006
Cynthia Nixon · (1 episode)
7.4
2006
(voice) · (1 episode)
10.0
2006
Leslie
7.2
2005
Karen Jameison
6.1
2005
Additional Voices
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2005
Eleanor Roosevelt
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2005
Self
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2004
Self
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2004
Self
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2004
Self
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2004
Anica Javanovich · (1 episode)
8.6
2004
Alex Tanner · (4 episodes)
0.0
2004
Self - Guest · (2 episodes)
6.1
2004
Self · (2 episodes)
5.8
2003
7.0
2003
Mrs. Piggee
6.6
2002
Mary Haines
0.0
2002
(voice)
6.9
2002
Other Voices (voice) · (2 episodes)
0.0
2002
Amanda Rollins · (1 episode)
7.6
2001
Sharon Jenkins
0.0
2000
Miranda Hobbes
6.4
2000
Self · (1 episode)
5.7
1999
Janis Donovan · (1 episode)
7.9
1999
Sheena
5.8
1999
Missy
3.7
1999
Miranda Hobbes · (94 episodes)
7.4
1998
Self · (6 episodes)
4.4
1997
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
4.4
1997
Retirement Home Director
6.7
1996
(1 episode)
7.3
1996
Self · (2 episodes)
6.4
1996
(1 episode)
6.6
1996
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1996
Donna
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1996
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1995
(1 episode)
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1995
Trudy · (1 episode)
7.7
1995
Ellie Shore · (1 episode)
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1994
Gilbertine
6.4
1994
Heather
7.0
1993
Self · (1 episode)
4.5
1993
Alice Stark
6.6
1993
Self · (1 episode)
5.8
1993
The Granddaughter
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1992
Nancy Cooper
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1992
Tina Foster
10.0
1991
Janet Raft
6.2
1990
Laura Di Biasi · (1 episode)
7.4
1990
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1990
Evangeline
6.3
1989
Allison Parrish Slocum · (1 episode)
5.5
1989
Michelle
4.7
1987
Jenny Anderman
6.2
1986
Lorl
8.0
1984
Amy Hertz
7.0
1983
Shirley Talley
7.0
1982
Nancy
9.0
1982
Alice
5.0
1982
Cindy
5.3
1981
Jeannie
7.0
1981
Sue Ellen
0.0
1981
Miranda Hobbs
10.0
Melina Richardson / Sarah · (1 episode)
7.2
1994
Donna · (2 episodes)
5.2
1991
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
5.2
1988
Alex Tanner · (12 episodes)
6.7
1988
Doreen · (2 episodes)
5.8
1988
Jackie · (1 episode)
7.1
1985
Alice Morgan · (1 episode)
7.5
1984
Sunshine
6.5
1980