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Cynthia Nixon
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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), Hurlyburl…
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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.
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No Poster
The Seven Year Disappear
as Miriam
True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
as Self
Keeping Company with Sondheim
as Self
And Just Like That... The Documentary
as Self
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
as Claudia
The Lavender Scare
as Madeleine Tress (voice)
Stray Dolls
as Una
The Parting Glass
as Mare
Maybe a Love Story
as Toni
Survivor's Guide to Prison
as Self
That's Harassment
as Patient
Great Performers: Horror Show
as The Ghost Bride
The Only Living Boy in New York
as Judith Webb
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
as Emily Dickinson (voice)
Killing Reagan
as Nancy Reagan
A Quiet Passion
as Emily Dickinson
The Adderall Diaries
as Jen Davis
James White
as Gail White
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
as Marcy Dargon
5 Flights Up
as Lily Portman
The Out List
as Herself
Girl Most Likely
as Cynthia Nixon
Too Big to Fail
as Michele Davis
Rampart
as Barbara
Sex and the City 2
as Miranda Hobbes
An Englishman in New York
as Penny Arcade
Lymelife
as Melissa Bragg
Live from the Red Carpet: Sex and the City
as Self
The Fabulous Fashion of 'Sex and the City'
as Self
Sex and the City: The Party That Never Was
as Self
Sex and the City
as Miranda Hobbes
The Babysitters
as Gail Beltran
Little Manhattan
as Leslie
One Last Thing...
as Karen Jameison
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
as Additional Voices
Warm Springs
as Eleanor Roosevelt
No Poster
Why Tanner, Why Now?
as Self
No Poster
On the Set: Alex’s Loft
as Self
No Poster
The Politics of Docs
as Self
No Poster
On the Set: Elaine’s
as Self
No Poster
The Shakespeare Sessions
Igby Goes Down
as Mrs. Piggee
The Women
as Mary Haines
Mark Twain
as (voice)
Papa's Angels
as Sharon Jenkins
Sex and the Matrix
as Miranda Hobbes
The Out-of-Towners
as Sheena
Advice From a Caterpillar
as Missy
Marvin's Room
as Retirement Home Director
No Poster
The 'M' Word
as Cara
The Cottonwood
as Donna
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
Baby's Day Out
as Gilbertine
Addams Family Values
as Heather
The Pelican Brief
as Alice Stark
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
as The Granddaughter
Through an Open Window
as Nancy Cooper
Face of a Stranger
as Tina Foster
The Love She Sought
as Janet Raft
Women and Wallace
as Sarah
Let It Ride
as Evangeline
It's Richard I Love
O.C. and Stiggs
as Michelle
The Manhattan Project
as Jenny Anderman
Amadeus
as Lorl
I Am the Cheese
as Amy Hertz
Fifth of July
as Shirley Talley
My Body, My Child
as Nancy
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
as Alice
Tattoo
as Cindy
Prince of the City
as Jeannie
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
as Sue Ellen
Little Darlings
as Sunshine
The Making of 'Sex and the City'
as Self
Sex and the City: A Farewell
as Miranda Hobbs
Ratched
as Gwendolyn Briggs