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9 APR 1966 CYNTHIA NIXON BORN

Cynthia Nixon

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Cynthia Nixon
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Nixon in May 2014
BornCynthia Ellen Nixon
April 9, 1966 (age 50)
New York City, New York,United States
OccupationActress
Years active1979–present
Spouse(s)Christine Marinoni (m. 2012)
Partner(s)Danny Mozes (1988–2003)
Children3
Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress, known for her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which 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). Her other film appearances include Amadeus (1984), The Pelican Brief (1993),Baby's Day Out (1994), Little Manhattan (2005), 5 Flights Up (2014), Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015), and James White (2015).
Nixon made her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story. Other Broadway credits include The Real Thing (1983), Hurlyburly (1983), Indiscretions (1995), and The Women (2001). In 2005, she playedEleanor Roosevelt in the HBO TV film Warm Springs. She went on to win the 2006 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the original production of Rabbit Hole, a second Emmy Award in 2008 for her guest role in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, and a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2009 for An Inconvenient Truth. In 2011, she played Michele Davis in the TV film Too Big to Fail, before returning to Broadway in the 2012 play Wit. She is set to star as Emily Dickinson in the upcoming film A Quiet Passion.

Early life[edit]

Nixon was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Anne Elizabeth (née Knoll; 1930–2012),[1] originally from Chicago, Illinois, and Walter E. Nixon, Jr., a radio journalist from Texas.[2][3] She graduated from Hunter College High School and attended Barnard College.[4][5] In the spring of 1986, she studied abroad with Semester at Sea.[6]

Career[edit]

Early career[edit]

Nixon's first onscreen appearance was as an imposter on To Tell the Truth, where her mother worked.[7] She began acting at age 12 as the object of a wealthy school mate's crush in The Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid, a 1979 ABC Afterschool Special.[8] She made her feature debut co-starring with Kristy McNichol and Tatum O'Neal in Little Darlings (1980). She made her Broadway debut as Dinah Lord in a 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story.[7] Alternating between film, TV and stage, she did projects like the 1982 ABC movie My Body, My Child, the features Prince of the City (1981) and I Am the Cheese (1983), and the 1982 Off-Broadway productions of John Guare's Lydie Breeze.
In 1984, while a freshman at Barnard College, Nixon made theatrical history by simultaneously appearing in two hit Broadway plays directed by Mike Nichols.[5] These were The Real Thing, where Nixon played the daughter of Jeremy Irons and Christine Baranski; andHurlyburly, where she played a young woman who encounters sleazy Hollywood executives.[9] The two theaters were just two blocks apart and Nixon's roles were both short, so she could run from one to the other.[9] Onscreen, she played the role of Salieri's maid/spy, Lorl, in Amadeus (1984). In 1985, she appeared alongside Jeff Daniels in Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky at Second Stage Theatre.[10]
She landed her first major supporting role in a movie as an intelligent teenager who aids her boyfriend (Christopher Collet) in building a nuclear bomb in Marshall Brickman's The Manhattan Project (1986).[11] Nixon was part of the cast of the NBC miniseries 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 (1988), Robert Altman's political satire for HBO. She reprised the role for the 2004 sequel Tanner on Tanner.

1990s[edit]

Nixon at the Berlin premiere of Sex and the City: The Movie, 2008
On stage, Nixon portrayed Juliet in a 1988 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet,[12] and acted in the workshop production of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles,[13] playing several characters after it came to Broadway in 1989. She was the guest star in the second episode of the long running NBC television series Law & Order.[14] She replaced Marcia Gay Harden as Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner's Angels in America(1994),[15] received a Tony nomination for her performance in Indiscretions (Les Parents Terribles) (1996, her sixth Broadway show) and,[16] though she originally lost the part to another actress, eventually took over the role of Lala Levy in the Tony-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997).
Nixon was a founding member of the theatrical troupe The Drama Dept.,[17] 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).
Nixon has contributed supporting performances to Addams Family Values (1993), Baby's Day Out (1994), Marvin's Room (1996) and The Out-of-Towners (1999).

Stardom[edit]

She raised her profile significantly as one of the four regulars on HBO's successful comedy Sex and the City (1998–2004), as the lawyer Miranda Hobbes. Nixon received three Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (2002, 2003, 2004), winning the award in 2004, for the show's final season.[18]
Nixon, John Hurt and Swoosie Kurtz at the premiere of An Englishman in New York, 2009
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 television movie Papa's Angels (2000). In 2002, she also landed a role in the indie comedy Igby Goes Down, and her turn in the theatrical production of Clare Boothe Luce's play The Women was captured for PBS' Stage on Screen series.
Post-Sex in the City, Nixon made a guest appearance 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 polio. Nixon earned an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance.[18] In December 2005, she appeared in the Fox TV series House in the episode "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,[19] and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Play). (This part was later played by Nicole Kidman in the movie adaptation of the play.) In 2008, she revived her role as Miranda Hobbes in the Sex and the City feature film, directed by HBO executive producer Michael Patrick King and co-starring the cast of the original series.[20] Also in 2008, she won an Emmy for her guest appearance in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, portraying a woman pretending to have dissociative identity disorder.[18] In 2008, Nixon made a brief uncredited cameo in the comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She appears in the background when Jason Segel's character mimics characters from Sex in the City at a bar.
In 2009, Nixon won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album along with Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood for the album An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore).[21]

2010s[edit]

In March 2010, Nixon received the Vito Russo Award at the GLAAD Media Awards. The award is presented to an openly LGBT media professional "who has made a significant difference in promoting equality for the LGBT community". It was announced in June 2010 that Nixon would appear in four episodes of the Showtime series The Big C.[22]
Nixon in 2013
Nixon appeared in a Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode based on the problems surrounding the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Her character is "Amanda Reese, the high-strung and larger-than-life director behind a problem-plagued Broadway version of Icarus", loosely modeled after Spider-Man director, Julie Taymor.[23]
In 2012, Nixon starred as Professor Vivian Bearing in the Broadway debut of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize–winning play Wit. Produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club, the play opened January 26, 2012 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.[24] Nixon received a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play for this performance.[25]
In 2012, Nixon also starred as Petranilla in the TV miniseries of Ken Follett's World Without End broadcast on the ReelzChannel, alongside Ben Chaplin, Peter Firth, Charlotte Riley and Miranda Richardson.
In 2015, Nixon appeared in two films, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival; Stockholm, Pennsylvania, and James White. She received critical acclaim for both performances, especially for the latter, which many considered as "Oscar-worthy".[26][27][28][29] Later in 2015, Nixon played the leading role of reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson in the biographical film A Quiet Passion directed and written by Terence Davies.[30]

Personal life[edit]

Nixon and wife Christine Marinoni
From 1988 to 2003, Nixon was in a relationship with schoolteacher Danny Mozes.[31] They have two children together, Sam (born 1996) and son Charles Ezekiel (born 2002).[32]
In 2004, Nixon began dating education activist Christine Marinoni.[33] Nixon and Marinoni became engaged in April 2009[34] and were married in New York City on May 27, 2012, with Nixon wearing a custom-made, pale green dress by Carolina Herrera.[31][35] Marinoni gave birth to a son, Max Ellington, in 2011.[36]
Regarding her sexual orientation, Nixon remarked in 2007: "I don't really feel I've changed. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. I'm just a woman in love with another woman."[33] She identified herself as bisexual in 2012.[37] Nixon has taken a public stand supporting the legalization of same-sex marriage in Washington State, Marinoni's home state, hosting a fund-raising event in support of Washington Referendum 74 for that purpose.[38]
In October 2006, Nixon was diagnosed with breast cancer during a routine mammogram.[39] She initially decided not to go public with her illness because of the stigma involved,[40] but in April 2008, she announced her battle with the disease in an interview with Good Morning America.[39] Since then, Nixon has become a breast cancer activist. She convinced the head of NBC to air her breast cancer special in a prime time program,[40] and became an Ambassador for Susan G. Komen for the Cure.[41]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

YearTitleRoleNotes
1980Little DarlingsSunshine Walker
1981Prince of the CityJeannie
1982My Body, My ChildNancyTelevision film
1983I Am the CheeseAmy Hertz
1984AmadeusLorl
1986The Manhattan ProjectJenny Anderman
1987O.C. and StiggsMichelle
1988The Murder of Mary PhaganDoreen
1989Let It RideEvangeline
1991Love, Lies and MurderDonnaTelevision film
1993The Pelican BriefAlice Stark
1993Addams Family ValuesHeather
1993Through an Open WindowNancy CooperShort film
1994Baby's Day OutGilbertine
1996Marvin's RoomRetirement Home Director
2000Papa's AngelsSharon Jenkins
2001Advice From a CaterpillarMissy
2002Igby Goes DownMrs. Piggee
2005Warm SpringsEleanor RooseveltTelevision film
2005Little ManhattanLeslie Burton
2006One Last Thing...Carol
2007The BabysittersGail Beltran
2008Sex and the City: The MovieMiranda Hobbes
2009LymelifeMelissa Bragg
2009An Englishman in New YorkPenny Arcade
2010Sex and the City 2Miranda Hobbes
2011Too Big to FailMichele DavisTelevision film
2011RampartBarbara
20145 Flights UpNiece
2015Stockholm, PennsylvaniaMarcy Dargon
2015James WhiteGail White
2015The Adderall DiariesJen Davis
2015A Quiet PassionEmily Dickinson

Television[edit]

YearTitleRoleNotes
1988Tanner '88Alex Tanner10 episodes
1989Gideon OliverAllison Parrish SlocumEpisode: "Sleep Well, Professor Oliver"
1989The EqualizerJackieEpisode: "Silent Fury"
1990The Young RidersAnnie2 episodes
1990Law & OrderLaura di BiasiEpisode: "Subterranean Homeboy Blues"
1993Murder, She WroteAlice MorganEpisode: "Threshold of Fear"
1996Early EditionSheilaEpisode: "Baby"
1998–2004Sex and the CityMiranda Hobbes94 episodes
1999The Outer LimitsTrudyEpisode: "Alien Radio"
1999Touched by an AngelMelina Richardson/Sister SarahEpisode: "Into the Fire"
2004Tanner on TannerAlex Tanner4 episodes
2005EREllieEpisode: "Alone in a Crowd"
2005HouseAnica JovanovichEpisode: "Deception"
2007Law & Order: Special Victims UnitJanisEpisode: "Alternate"
2010–2011The Big CRebecca10 episodes
2011Law & Order: Criminal IntentAmanda RollinsEpisode: "Icarus"
2012World Without EndPetronilla7 episodes
201230 RockHerselfEpisode: "Kidnapped by Danger"
2013–2014Alpha HouseSenator Carly Armiston6 episodes
2014HannibalKade Prurnell4 episodes

Awards and nominations[edit]


YearAssociationCategoryNominated workResult
1987Theatre World AwardThe Philadelphia StoryWon
1987Young Artist AwardsExceptional Performance by a Younger Actress in a Supporting RoleThe Manhattan ProjectNominated
1995Tony AwardsBest Featured Actress in a PlayIndiscretionsNominated
2000Golden Globe AwardsBest Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television FilmSex and the CityNominated
2001Golden Globe AwardsBest Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television FilmNominated
Screen Actors Guild AwardsOutstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy SeriesNominated
2002Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy SeriesNominated
Screen Actors Guild AwardsOutstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy SeriesWon
2003Golden Globe AwardsBest Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television FilmNominated
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy SeriesNominated
Satellite AwardsBest Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television FilmNominated
Screen Actors Guild AwardsOutstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy SeriesNominated
2004Golden Globe AwardsBest Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television FilmNominated
Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy SeriesWon
Screen Actors Guild AwardsOutstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy SeriesWon
2005Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a MovieWarm SpringsNominated
Satellite AwardsBest Actress – Miniseries or Television FilmNominated
Screen Actors Guild AwardsOutstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy SeriesSex and the CityNominated
2006Golden Globe AwardsBest Actress – Miniseries or Television FilmWarm SpringsNominated
Screen Actors Guild AwardsOutstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television MovieNominated
Tony AwardsBest Actress in a PlayRabbit HoleWon
2008Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Guest Actress in a Drama SeriesLaw & Order: Special Victims UnitWon
2009People's Choice AwardsFavorite CastSex and the City: The MovieNominated
Grammy AwardsBest Spoken Word Album (with Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood)An Inconvenient TruthWon
2011Golden Raspberry AwardsWorst ActressSex and the City 2Won
2012Tony AwardsBest Actress in a PlayWitNominated
2015Critics Choice AwardsBest Supporting Actress in a Movie/Limited SeriesStockholm, PennsylvaniaNominated
2015Chicago Film Critics AssociationBest Supporting Actress[42]James WhiteNominated
2015Detroit Film Critics SocietyBest Supporting Actress[43]James WhiteNominated
2015Online Film Critics SocietyBest Supporting Actress[44]James WhiteNominated
2016Film Independent Spirit AwardsBest Supporting Female[45]James WhiteNominated
2016Satellite AwardsBest Actress – Miniseries or Television Film[46]Stockholm, PennsylvaniaPending
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