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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Acted in
The Seven Year Disappear
2024
as Miriam
Celebrity Jeopardy!
2022
as Self
True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
2022
Keeping Company with Sondheim
2022
as Self
And Just Like That… The Documentary
2022
as Self
The Gilded Age
2022
as Ada Brook
And Just Like That…
2021
as Miranda Hobbes
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
2020
as Claudia
Ratched
2020
as Gwendolyn Briggs
Stars in the House
2020
as Self
The Lavender Scare
2019
as Madeleine Tress (voice)
Stray Dolls
2019
as Una
The Parting Glass
2018
as Mare
Maybe a Love Story
2018
as Toni
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018
as Self
That's Harassment
2018
as Patient
Great Performers: Horror Show
2017
as The Ghost Bride
The Only Living Boy in New York
2017
as Judith Webb
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
2017
as Emily Dickinson (voice)
Killing Reagan
2016
as Nancy Reagan
A Quiet Passion
2016
as Emily Dickinson
The Adderall Diaries
2016
as Jen Davis
James White
2015
as Gail White
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
2015
as Marcy Dargon
5 Flights Up
2014
as Lily Portman
Broad City
2014
as Barb
The Out List
2013
as Herself
Alpha House
2013
as Senator Carly Armiston
Hannibal
2013
as Kade Prurnell
Girl Most Likely
2012
as Cynthia Nixon
World Without End
2012
as Petranilla
Too Big to Fail
2011
as Michele Davis
Rampart
2011
as Barbara
The Big C
2010
as Rebecca
Sex and the City 2
2010
as Miranda Hobbes
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
as Self
An Englishman in New York
2009
as Penny Arcade
Lymelife
2008
as Melissa Bragg
Sex and the City
2008
as Miranda Hobbes
The Babysitters
2008
as Gail Beltran
3 LBS
2006
as Dr. Karin Hanson
30 Rock
2006
as Cynthia Nixon
Me, Eloise
2006
as (voice)
Little Manhattan
2005
as Leslie
One Last Thing...
2005
as Karen Jameison
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
2005
as Additional Voices
Warm Springs
2005
as Eleanor Roosevelt
The Politics of Docs
2004
as Self
Why Tanner, Why Now?
2004
as Self
On the Set: Alex’s Loft
2004
as Self
On the Set: Elaine’s
2004
as Self
House
2004
as Anica Javanovich
Tanner on Tanner
2004
as Alex Tanner
The Shakespeare Sessions
2003
Igby Goes Down
2002
as Mrs. Piggee
The Women
2002
as Mary Haines
Mark Twain
2002
as (voice)
Mark Twain
2002
as Other Voices (voice)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Amanda Rollins
Papa's Angels
2000
as Sharon Jenkins
Sex and the Matrix
2000
as Miranda Hobbes
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Janis Donovan
The Out-of-Towners
1999
as Sheena
Advice From a Caterpillar
1999
as Missy
Sex and the City
1998
as Miranda Hobbes
Marvin's Room
1996
as Retirement Home Director
Early Edition
1996
Nash Bridges
1996
The 'M' Word
1996
The Cottonwood
1996
as Donna
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
1995
New York News
1995
The Outer Limits
1995
as Trudy
Touched by an Angel
1994
as Melina Richardson / Sarah
ER
1994
as Ellie Shore
Baby's Day Out
1994
as Gilbertine
Addams Family Values
1993
as Heather
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
The Pelican Brief
1993
as Alice Stark
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
1992
as The Granddaughter
Through an Open Window
1992
as Nancy Cooper
Face of a Stranger
1991
as Tina Foster
Love, Lies and Murder
1991
as Donna
The Love She Sought
1990
as Janet Raft
Law & Order
1990
as Laura Di Biasi
It's Richard I Love
1990
Let It Ride
1989
as Evangeline
Gideon Oliver
1989
as Allison Parrish Slocum
Tanner '88
1988
as Alex Tanner
The Murder of Mary Phagan
1988
as Doreen
O.C. and Stiggs
1987
as Michelle
The Manhattan Project
1986
as Jenny Anderman
The Equalizer
1985
as Jackie
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Alice Morgan
Amadeus
1984
as Lorl
I Am The Cheese
1983
as Amy Hertz
Fifth of July
1982
as Shirley Talley
My Body, My Child
1982
as Nancy
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
1982
as Alice
Tattoo
1981
as Cindy
Prince of the City
1981
as Jeannie
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
1981
as Sue Ellen
Little Darlings
1980
as Sunshine