Cast & creator
Cynthia Nixon
Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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.
Also known as: Cynthia Ellen Nixon
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1971–2025 · acting roles
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Filmography (134)
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Janis Donovan
1999
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
Law & Order
Laura Di Biasi
1990
The Daily Show
Self
1996
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
House
Anica Javanovich
2004
The View
Self
1997The View
Self - Guest
1997
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Amanda Rollins
2001
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
The Outer Limits
Trudy
1995
ER
Ellie Shore
1994
Great Performances
Self
1971
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Murder, She Wrote
Alice Morgan
1984
30 Rock
Cynthia Nixon
2006
Touched by an Angel
Melina Richardson / Sarah
1994
American Playhouse
Shirley Talley
1982American Playhouse
Sarah
1982
Democracy Now!
Self (archive footage)
2001
Sex and the City
Miranda Hobbes
1998
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Nash Bridges
Melissa
1996
Intimate Portrait
Self
1993
Hannibal
Kade Prurnell
2013The Tony Danza Show
Self - Guest
2004
Early Edition
Sheila
1996
The Equalizer
Jackie
1985
GMTV
Self
1993
The Affair
Marilyn
2014
The Gilded Age
Ada Brook
2022
Broad City
Barb
2014
Stars in the House
Self
2020
And Just Like That…
Miranda Hobbes
2021And Just Like That…
Executive Producer
2021And Just Like That…
Director
2021
The Big C
Rebecca
2010
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
2010
Celebrity Jeopardy!
Self - Contestant
2022
Alpha House
Senator Carly Armiston
2013
Addams Family Values
Heather
1993
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
2025
Sex and the City
Miranda Hobbes
2008
The Early Show
Self
1999
Amadeus
Lorl
1984
The Pelican Brief
Alice Stark
1993
Ratched
Gwendolyn Briggs
2020
New York News
1995
Sex and the City 2
Miranda Hobbes
2010
Baby's Day Out
Gilbertine
1994
World Without End
Petranilla
2012
Me, Eloise
(voice)
2006
Tanner '88
Alex Tanner
1988
The Babysitters
Gail Beltran
2008
3 lbs
Dr. Karin Hanson
2006
Marvin's Room
Retirement Home Director
1996
Tanner on Tanner
Alex Tanner
2004
The Out-of-Towners
Sheena
1999
The Murder of Mary Phagan
Doreen
1988
Love, Lies and Murder
Donna
1991
5 Flights Up
Lily Portman
2014
Little Manhattan
Leslie
2005
Too Big to Fail
Michele Davis
2011
The Only Living Boy in New York
Judith Webb
2017
Prince of the City
Jeannie
1981Gideon Oliver
Allison Parrish Slocum
1989
Rampart
Barbara
2011
The Adderall Diaries
Jen Davis
2016
Little Darlings
Sunshine
1980
Mark Twain
Other Voices (voice)
2002
Let It Ride
Evangeline
1989
Igby Goes Down
Mrs. Piggee
2002
Girl Most Likely
Cynthia Nixon
2012
Survivor's Guide to Prison
Self
2018
James White
Gail White
2015
Warm Springs
Eleanor Roosevelt
2005
The Manhattan Project
Jenny Anderman
1986
Lymelife
Melissa Bragg
2008
A Quiet Passion
Emily Dickinson
2016
And Just Like That... The Documentary
Self
2022
Mark Twain
(voice)
2002
Sex and the Matrix
Miranda Hobbes
2000
Tattoo
Cindy
1981
O.C. and Stiggs
Michelle
1987
That's Harassment
Patient
2018
One Last Thing...
Karen Jameison
2005
Advice From a Caterpillar
Missy
1999
The Parting Glass
Mare
2018
My Body, My Child
Nancy
1982
The Love She Sought
Janet Raft
1990
An Englishman in New York
Penny Arcade
2009
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
Marcy Dargon
2015
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Claudia
2020
Keeping Company with Sondheim
Self
2022
Live from the Red Carpet: Sex and the City
Self
2008
The Lavender Scare
Madeleine Tress (voice)
2019
Rasheeda Speaking
Stage Director
2015
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
1995
Stray Dolls
Una
2019
Face of a Stranger
Tina Foster
1991
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
Additional Voices
2005
I Am the Cheese
Amy Hertz
1983
Killing Reagan
Nancy Reagan
2016
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
Alice
1982
The Making of 'Sex and the City'
Self
The Women
Mary Haines
2002
Maybe a Love Story
Toni
2018
True Colors: LGBTQ+ Our Stories, Our Songs
Self
2022
Sex and the City: The Party That Never Was
Self
2008
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
Sue Ellen
1981
Great Performers: Horror Show
The Ghost Bride
2017
The Cottonwood
Donna
1996
The Fabulous Fashion of 'Sex and the City'
Self
2008The Shakespeare Sessions
2003On the Set: Elaine’s
Self
2004
On The Level
1980
Fifth of July
Shirley Talley
1982
Sex and the City: A Farewell
Miranda Hobbs
Women and Wallace
Sarah
1990The Seven Year Disappear
Miriam
2024The 'M' Word
Cara
1996
It's Richard I Love
1988
Through an Open Window
Nancy Cooper
1992
The Out List
Herself
2013
Papa's Angels
Sharon Jenkins
2000On the Set: Alex’s Loft
Self
2004Why Tanner, Why Now?
Self
2004The Politics of Docs
Self
2004
My Letter to the World: A Journey Through the Life of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (voice)
2017
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings
The Granddaughter
1992
Ratched
Gwendolyn Briggs