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| Birth Name(s) : Cynthia Ellen Nixon |
Date of Birth: April 9, 1966 |
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Born in New York City on 9 April, 1966, Nixon made a memorable film debut in the 1980 movie Little Darlings(1980). Her Broadway works include: 'The Last Night of Ballyhoo', 'Indiscretions', 'Angels in America', 'The Heidi Chronicles', 'The Women' and she managed to appear in both 'Hurlyburly' and 'The Real Thing' at the same time. Her stage honors include winning a Theatre World Award, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award and a Tony Award nomination. She is also a founding member of Drama Dept., a New York based theater company.
Despite her many roles, her breakthrough appears to be HBO's Sex And The City(1998) , where Nixon plays red-haired workaholic lawyer Miranda Hobbes. |
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Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is a Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actress who is best known for her portrayal of lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the popular HBO comedy-drama Sex and the City (1998–2004).
On stage, Nixon portrayed Juliet in a 1988 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet and acted in the workshop production of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, playing several characters after it came to Broadway in 1989. She replaced Marcia Gay Harden as a pill-popping Mormon wife whose husband reveals his homosexuality in Tony Kushner's landmark two-part Angels in America (1994), received a Tony nomination for her performance as the headstrong young woman who falls for a mama's boy in Indiscretions (Les Parents Terribles) (1996, her sixth Broadway show) and, though she originally lost the part to another actress, eventually took over the role of Lala Levy, the aspiring Scarlett O'Hara in the Tony Award-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997). Nixon was also one of the founding members of the theatrical troupe The Drama Dept., which included Sarah Jessica Parker, Dylan Baker, John Cameron Mitchell and Billy Crudup among its actors, appearing in the group's productions of Kingdom on Earth (1996), June Moon and As Bees in Honey Drown (both 1997), Hope is the Thing with Feathers (1998), and The Country Club (1999).
She raised her profile significantly as one of the four regulars of HBO's successful comedy Sex and the City (1998-2004), inhabiting her role as the no-nonsense lawyer Miranda in support of series star Sarah Jessica Parker. After Emmy nominations as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2002 and 2003, Nixon took home the trophy in 2004 for the series' final season.
The immense popularity of the series led Nixon to enjoy her first leading role in a feature, playing a video artist who falls in love, despite her best efforts to avoid commitment, with a bisexual actor who just happens to be dating a gay man (her best friend) in Advice From a Caterpillar (2000), as well as starring opposite Scott Bakula in the holiday telepic Papa's Angels (2000). In 2002 she also landed a stint as Mrs. Piggee in the indie comedy Igby Goes Down, and her turn in the theatrical production of Clare Booth Luce's play The Women was captured for PBS's Stage On Screen series.
Post-Sex, Nixon did a guest stint on ER in 2005 as a mother who undergoes a tricky procedure to lessen the effects of a debilitating stroke. She followed up with a turn as Eleanor Roosevelt for HBO's Warm Springs (2005), which chronicled Franklin Delano Roosevelt's quest for a miracle cure for his paralytic illness. Nixon earned an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance. She then had a 2005 stint on the FOX hit medical series House as a patient who suffers a seizure and matches wits with Dr. House (Hugh Laurie). In 2006, Nixon won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Play) for David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Rabbit Hole.
Preparations are already underway for a Sex and the City feature film. HBO is currently in negotiations with executive producer Michael Patrick King and the cast from the TV series of the same name, including Nixon.
Nixon has two children, daughter Samantha (b. 1996) and son Charles Ezekiel (b. 2002), with Danny Mozes, an English professor, with whom she had a relationship from 1988 to 2003.
In September 2004, it was reported that despite previous relationships with men, Nixon had been in a nearly year-long relationship with the education activist Christine Marinoni. In February 2005, the New York Post and other sources reported that Nixon had moved to Brooklyn to live with Marinoni. However, Nixon told the The New York Times in January 2006 that she had not moved and that keeping her kids in their Manhattan public schools took priority. Discussing her relationship in an interview in New York Magazine in 2006, Nixon stated that she never felt any struggle with her sexuality: "There wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress. I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure."
Her filmography/television resume is as follows:
- Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
- Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (2007, TV)
- One Last Thing... (2006)
- Little Manhattan (2005)....Leslie
- House (2005, TV)
- One Last Thing (2005)
- Warm Springs (2005)...Eleanor Roosevelt
- Sex and the City (from 1998 to 2004)...Miranda Hobbes
- Kiss Kiss, Dahlings/The Last Mile (2002)
- Igby Goes Down (2002)....Mrs. Piggee
- Advice From a Caterpillar (2001)
- Papa's Angels (2000)
- The Outer Limits: "Alien Radio" (1999)
- Marvin's Room (1996)
- Baby's Day Out (1994), as the baby's nanny
- Addams Family Values (1993), as a nanny
- Murder She Wrote episode:Threshold of Fear (1993), as Alice Morgan
- The Pelican Brief (1993), as Alice Stark
- Let It Ride (1989), as Evangaline
- The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988), as Doreen
- Tanner '88 (1988, television series)
- The Manhattan Project (1986), as the female protagonist/love interest.
- O.C. and Stiggs
- Amadeus (1984) (the role of Lorl)
- My Body, My Child (1982, miniseries, with future Sex and...co star Sarah Jessica Parker)
- Prince of the City (1981)
- Little Darlings (1980) |
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