Cynthia Nixon

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Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress and activist. Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004), received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

She starred in Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), a film in which she appeared.

Amadeus (1984), James White (2015), and Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016) are among her film credits. In the 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story, Nixon made her Broadway debut.

The Real Thing (1983), Hurlyburly (1983), Indiscretions (1995), The Women (2001), and Wit (2012).

She received 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, and the 2017 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Little Foxes.

Eleanor Roosevelt in Warm Springs (2005), Michele Davis in Too Big to Fail (2011), and Nancy Reagan in the 2016 television film Killing Reagan were among her other television appearances. Nixon declared her campaign for Governor of New York on March 19, 2018 as a challenger to Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo.

Her website focuses on income disparities, renewable energy, universal health care, ending massincarceration in the United States, and keeping undocumented children from deporting.

On September 13, 2018, she lost in the Democratic primary to Cuomo, with 34% out of the vote to his 66%.

Nixon was nominated as the gubernatorial candidate for the Working Families Party, but the Party withdrew its assistance to Cuomo after Nixon lost in the Democratic primary. Nixon has fought for LGBT rights in the United States, particularly the right to same-sex marriage.

She met her husband at a 2002 gay rights rally and announced her participation in a campaign for New York marriage equality in 2009.

In 2013, she received the Yale University Artist for Equality award and the Human Rights Campaign's Visibility Award in 2018.

Early life and education

Nixon was born in Manhattan, the only child of Walter Elmer Nixon Jr., a Texas radio journalist, and Anne Elizabeth (née Knoll), an actress hailing from Chicago, were both born in Manhattan. She attributes her mother's "indoctrination" her into theatre. She is of English and German descent. Adolph Knoll, Etta Elizabeth Williams, Walter E. Nixon, and Grace Truman McCormack were among her grandparents. When she was six years old, Nixon's parents divorced. Her father was often unemployed and her mother was the household's breadwinner, according to Nixon, who appeared on the game show To Tell the Truth, instructing the "impostors" who had alleged to be the person identified by the host.

Nixon appeared on the program at 9 as one of the "impostors," pretending to be a junior horse riding champion. Nixon was an actress in both Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School (Class of 1984), often moving from school to film and stage. Nixon took action in order to pay her way into Barnard College, where she received a B.A. Literature in the United Kingdom. In the Spring of 1986, Nixon was also a student in the Semester at Sea Program.

Personal life

Nixon was in a friendship with schoolteacher Danny Mozes from 1988 to 2003. They have two children together. Nixon declared in June 2018 that her older child is transgender.

Christine Marinoni, a teacher in 2004, became Nixon's first date activist. Nixon and Marinoni got engaged in April 2009 and married in New York City on May 27, 2012, with Nixon wearing Carolina Herrera's custom-made pale green dress. In 2011, Marinoni gave birth to a boy.

Nixon said in 2007: "I don't really feel I've changed" in terms of her sexual orientation. I'd been with guys all my life, but I'd never fallen in love with a woman. When I did, it wasn't all weird. "I'm just a woman in love with another woman." In 2012, she identified herself as bisexual, but now identifies herself as queer. Nixon had taken a public stand in favor of Washington Referendum 74 prior to the legalization of same-sex marriage in Washington state (Marinoni's home state).

A transgogue, Nixon and her family attend Congregation Beit Simchat Torah.

During a routine mammography in October 2006, Nixon was diagnosed with breast cancer. In an interview with Good Morning America in April 2008, she initially decided not to go public with her illness because it might ruin her career. Since being a breast cancer activist, Nixon has been a breast cancer campaigner. She persuaded the head of NBC to air her breast cancer special on a prime time television show and became a Ambassador for Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

She and Marinoni live in Manhattan's NoHo neighborhood.

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Career

Nixon's first on-screen appearance on To Tell the Truth, where her mother worked, was as an imposter. In The Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid, a 1979 ABC Afterschool Special, she began acting at 12 as the object of a wealthy schoolmate's crush. Kristy McNichol and Tatum O'Neal co-starring Little Darlings (1980). In 1980, Dinah Lord made her Broadway debut as Dinah Lord in The Philadelphia Story. She worked on film, television, and stage, as well as the 1982 Off-Broadway productions of John Guare's Lydie Breeze (1981).

Nixon made theatrical history by appearing in two hit Broadway plays directed by Mike Nichols in 1984. They were The Real Thing, in which she played Jeremy Irons and Christine Baranski's daughter; and Hurlyburly, where she played a young woman who meets sleazy Hollywood executives. Nixon's roles were both short, so she could go from one to the other, just two blocks apart, so she could go from one to the other. Lorl, Salieri's maid/spy on film, appeared in Amadeus (1984). She appeared in Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky at Second Stage Theatre in 1985.

In Marshall Brickman's The Manhattan Project (1986), she landed her first big supporting role in a film as an intelligent teen who helps her boyfriend (Christopher Collet) in constructing a nuclear bomb. In Tanner '88 (1988), Robert Altman's political satire for HBO, Nixon was part of the cast of NBC's The Murder of Mary Phagan (NBC, 1988) starring Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey, and portrayed the daughter of a presidential candidate (Michael Murphy) in Tanner '88 (NBC, 1988). Tanner on Tanner, the 2004 sequel, has reprised her role.

Nixon portrayed Juliet in a 1988 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet, as well as participating in Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, playing many roles after it came to Broadway in 1989. In the second episode of the long-running NBC television series Law & Order, she appeared as the guest star. She Wrote "Threshold of Fear," an agoraphobic woman in a February 1993 episode of Murder.

Nixon portrayed Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner's Angels in America (1994), her sixth Broadway appearance, and although she initially lost the part to another actress, she eventually took over Lala Levy's role in the Tony Award-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997).

In the group's productions of Kingdom on Earth (1996), June Baker, John Cameron Mitchell, and Billy Crudup were among the principals.

She was involved in Addams Family Values (1993), Baby's Day Out (1994), Marvin's Room (1996), and The Out-of-Towners (1999).

Miranda Hobbes, a lawyer, boosted her profile as one of HBO's top-rated comedy Sex and the City (1998–2004). In 2004, Nixon received three Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (2002, 2003, 2004), the show's final season.

Despite her best efforts to avoid commitment, Nixon enjoyed her first leading role in a film, as well as starring opposite Scott Bakula in the holiday television film Papa's Angels (2000). She appeared in the Indie comedy Igby Goes Down in 2002, as well as her role in Clare Boothe Luce's Woman in PBS' Stage on Screen film The Women.

In 2005, Post-Sex and the City Nixon made a guest appearance on ER as a mother who has undergone a lengthy procedure to lessen the effects of a debilitating stroke. Eleanor Roosevelt appeared on HBO's Warm Springs (2005), which chronicled Franklin Delano Roosevelt's search for a miracle cure for his polio. Nixon received an Emmy Award for her role in a Miniseries or a Film. In December 2005, she appeared in the Fox TV series "Deception" as a patient who suffers a seizure.

In 2006, she appeared in David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Rabbit Hole in a Manhattan Theatre Club production and received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Play). (This role was later portrayed by Nicole Kidman in the film version of the play.)

Miranda Hobbes appeared in the Sex and the City feature film, directed by HBO executive producer Michael Patrick King and co-starring the cast of the original film in 2008. She received an Emmy for her appearance in a special Victims Unit episode in 2008, portraying a woman pretending to have dissociative identity disorder.

Nixon received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2009, along with Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood for the album An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore).

At the GLAAD Media Awards in March 2010, Nixon received the Vito Russo Award. The award is given to an openly LGBT media professional who has made a "real difference in promoting equality for the LGBT community." Nixon will appear in four episodes of Showtime's The Big Clock, which was announced in June 2010.

Nixon appeared in a Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode based on the controversies surrounding the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Light. "Amanda Reese, the high-strung and larger-than-life director behind a Broadway version of Icarus that has been plagued by troubled Broadway, is closely modeled after Spider-Man director Julie Taymor.

In the Broadway debut of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit in 2012, Nixon appeared as Professor Vivian Bearing. The play, directed by the Manhattan Theatre Club, opened on January 26, 2012 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. For his role, Nixon received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play.

In 2012, Nixon appeared as Petranilla in Ken Follett's World Without End television series, alongside Ben Chaplin, Peter Firth, Charlotte Riley, and Miranda Richardson.

Nixon appeared in two films that premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in 2015: Stockholm, Pennsylvania, and James White. Both performances, especially the latter, were lauded, especially for its performance, which many regard as "oscar-worthy."

In Terence Davies' biographical film A Quiet Passion, Nixon portrayed the leading role of reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson. In February 2016, the film premiered at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016. In May 2016, it was announced that Nixon would be playing Nancy Reagan in the forthcoming television film version of Killing Reagan. Filming began in late May and the film premiered in October 2016.

Nixon appeared in The Little Foxes' revival on Broadway, with the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre opening on April 19, 2017. She alternating Regina and Birdie with Laura Linney, winning her second Tony Award for her role as Birdie.

Nixon would appear in the forthcoming Netflix drama series Ratched, which was revealed in January 2019.

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