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Cynthia Nixon

1966-04-09 (58 years old) in 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.

Movies

actor
The Seven Year Disappear
0 %|Mar 15, 2024
Drama
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Keeping Company with Sondheim
90 %|May 27, 2022
Documentary, Music
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And Just Like That… The Documentary
68.33 %|Feb 3, 2022
Documentary
poster
The Lavender Scare
63 %|Jun 7, 2019
Documentary
poster
Stray Dolls
46 %|Apr 27, 2019
Drama, Crime
poster
The Parting Glass
57 %|Jun 24, 2018
Drama
poster
Maybe a Love Story
65 %|Jun 14, 2018
Comedy, Romance
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Survivor's Guide to Prison
63.97 %|Feb 23, 2018
Documentary, Crime
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That's Harassment
100 %|Jan 26, 2018
Drama
poster
Great Performers: Horror Show
67 %|Dec 7, 2017
Horror, Thriller
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The Only Living Boy in New York
64 %|Jul 27, 2017
Drama
poster
Killing Reagan
66 %|Oct 16, 2016
Drama, TV Movie
poster
A Quiet Passion
61 %|Oct 7, 2016
Drama
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The Adderall Diaries
53 %|Apr 15, 2016
Thriller, Romance
poster
James White
65.71 %|Nov 13, 2015
Drama
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Stockholm, Pennsylvania
54 %|Jan 23, 2015
Drama, TV Movie
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5 Flights Up
60.099999999999994 %|May 10, 2014
Drama
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The Out List
61 %|Jun 26, 2013
Documentary
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Girl Most Likely
56 %|Sep 7, 2012
Comedy
poster
Too Big to Fail
70 %|Nov 25, 2011
Drama, TV Movie
poster
Rampart
54.61 %|Nov 23, 2011
Crime, Drama
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Sex and the City 2
61 %|May 26, 2010
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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An Englishman in New York
64 %|Feb 7, 2009
Drama
poster
Lymelife
60.949999999999996 %|Sep 8, 2008
Comedy, Drama
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Sex and the City
65.77 %|May 12, 2008
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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The Babysitters
59.92 %|May 9, 2008
Drama
poster
Little Manhattan
72 %|Sep 26, 2005
Comedy, Romance
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One Last Thing...
61 %|Sep 12, 2005
Comedy, Crime, Drama
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Warm Springs
68 %|Apr 30, 2005
Drama, TV Movie
actor
The Politics of Docs
0 %|Nov 23, 2004
Documentary
actor
Why Tanner, Why Now?
0 %|Nov 23, 2004
Documentary
actor
On the Set: Alex’s Loft
0 %|Nov 23, 2004
Documentary
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On the Set: Elaine’s
0 %|Nov 22, 2004
Documentary
actor
The Shakespeare Sessions
70 %|Jan 1, 2003
poster
Igby Goes Down
65.65 %|Sep 13, 2002
Comedy, Drama
poster
The Women
0 %|Jun 18, 2002
TV Movie
poster
Mark Twain
69 %|Jan 14, 2002
Documentary
poster
Papa's Angels
0 %|Dec 3, 2000
Romance, TV Movie, Drama
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Sex and the Matrix
64 %|Jun 3, 2000
Comedy
poster
The Out-of-Towners
58 %|Apr 2, 1999
Comedy, Drama
poster
Advice From a Caterpillar
37 %|Feb 15, 1999
Comedy, Romance
poster
Marvin's Room
67 %|Dec 18, 1996
Drama
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The 'M' Word
10 %|Jan 1, 1996
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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The Cottonwood
0 %|Jan 1, 1996
Comedy
poster
Baby's Day Out
63.63 %|Jul 1, 1994
Comedy, Adventure, Family, Crime, Drama
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Addams Family Values
70 %|Nov 19, 1993
Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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The Pelican Brief
66 %|Sep 17, 1993
Thriller
poster
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
0 %|Oct 9, 1992
Comedy
poster
Through an Open Window
0 %|Mar 25, 1992
poster
Face of a Stranger
100 %|Dec 29, 1991
Drama
poster
The Love She Sought
62 %|Oct 21, 1990
Drama, Romance, TV Movie
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It's Richard I Love
0 %|May 4, 1990
poster
Let It Ride
62.89 %|Aug 18, 1989
Comedy
poster
O.C. and Stiggs
47 %|Jul 10, 1987
Comedy
poster
The Manhattan Project
62 %|Jun 13, 1986
Science Fiction, Thriller
poster
Amadeus
80.31 %|Sep 19, 1984
History, Music, Drama
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I Am The Cheese
70 %|Nov 11, 1983
Fantasy, Drama
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Fifth of July
70 %|Oct 11, 1982
Drama, TV Movie
poster
My Body, My Child
90 %|Apr 11, 1982
Drama, TV Movie
poster
Tattoo
53 %|Oct 9, 1981
Thriller, Drama, Horror
poster
Prince of the City
70 %|Aug 19, 1981
Drama, Thriller, Crime
poster
Little Darlings
65 %|Mar 21, 1980
Comedy, Drama

Series

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Celebrity Jeopardy!
60 %|Sep 25, 2022
Reality
poster
The Gilded Age
79 %|Jan 24, 2022
Drama
poster
And Just Like That…
74 %|Dec 9, 2021
Comedy, Drama
poster
Ratched
76.88 %|Sep 18, 2020
Mystery, Drama, Crime
poster
Stars in the House
0 %|Mar 16, 2020
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
62 %|Sep 9, 2019
Talk
poster
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
66 %|Sep 8, 2015
Comedy, Talk
poster
Late Night with Seth Meyers
55 %|Feb 25, 2014
Talk, Comedy
poster
Broad City
71.92999999999999 %|Jan 22, 2014
Comedy, Drama
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Alpha House
71.44 %|Apr 19, 2013
Comedy, Drama
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Hannibal
82.47999999999999 %|Apr 4, 2013
Drama, Crime
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World Without End
69.71000000000001 %|Sep 4, 2012
Drama
poster
The Big C
71 %|Aug 16, 2010
Comedy, Drama
poster
Who Do You Think You Are?
66 %|Mar 5, 2010
Documentary, Reality
poster
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
50 %|Jul 16, 2009
Talk, Comedy
poster
The Graham Norton Show
72 %|Feb 22, 2007
Comedy, Talk
poster
3 LBS
42 %|Nov 14, 2006
Drama
poster
30 Rock
74 %|Oct 11, 2006
Comedy
poster
Me, Eloise
100 %|Oct 10, 2006
Animation
poster
House
85.89 %|Nov 16, 2004
Drama, Mystery, Comedy
poster
Tanner on Tanner
0 %|Oct 5, 2004
Comedy
actor
The Tony Danza Show
61 %|Sep 13, 2004
Talk
poster
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
58 %|Sep 8, 2003
Comedy, Talk
poster
Mark Twain
0 %|Jan 14, 2002
Documentary
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
75.67 %|Sep 30, 2001
Drama
poster
The Early Show
57 %|Nov 1, 1999
News
poster
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
79 %|Sep 20, 1999
Crime, Drama, Mystery
poster
Sex and the City
74.02 %|Jun 6, 1998
Comedy, Drama
poster
The View
44.21 %|Aug 11, 1997
Talk
poster
The View
44.21 %|Aug 11, 1997
Talk
poster
Early Edition
73 %|Sep 28, 1996
Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
poster
The Daily Show
64 %|Jul 22, 1996
News, Comedy
poster
Nash Bridges
66 %|Mar 29, 1996
Action & Adventure, Drama
poster
New York News
0 %|Sep 28, 1995
Drama
poster
The Outer Limits
77 %|Mar 26, 1995
Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
poster
Touched by an Angel
72 %|Sep 21, 1994
Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Family
poster
ER
78.13 %|Sep 19, 1994
Drama
poster
Intimate Portrait
45 %|Nov 14, 1993
Documentary
poster
GMTV
58 %|Jan 1, 1993
News
poster
Love, Lies and Murder
52 %|Feb 17, 1991
Crime, Drama
poster
Law & Order
74 %|Sep 13, 1990
Crime, Drama
poster
Gideon Oliver
55 %|Feb 20, 1989
Drama
poster
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
52 %|Sep 5, 1988
Talk
poster
Tanner '88
66.67 %|Feb 15, 1988
Comedy, War & Politics
poster
The Murder of Mary Phagan
58 %|Jan 24, 1988
Drama, Crime
poster
The Equalizer
71 %|Sep 18, 1985
Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama
poster
Murder, She Wrote
75 %|Sep 30, 1984
Mystery, Crime, Drama