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 19982004 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 2021present 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia