cynthia nixon

Nixon at the Berlin premiere of Sex and the City: The Movie, 2008 Born Cynthia Ellen Nixon

April 9, 1966 (1966-04-09) (age 42)

New York City, New York, USA Years active 1978–present Domestic partner(s) Danny Mozes (1988–2003)

Christine Marinoni (2004–) [show]Awards won Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy

2004 Sex and the City

Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama

2008 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Grammy Awards Best Spoken Word Album

2009 An Inconvenient Truth Screen Actors Guild Awards Best Ensemble - Comedy Series

2001 Sex and the City

2004 Sex and the City Tony Awards Best Leading Actress in a Play

2006 Rabbit Hole

Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is a Tony-, two-time Emmy- and Grammy Award-winning American actress, known for her portrayal of lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the popular HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004, 2008). Contents [hide] 1 Biography 1.1 Early life and career 1.2 1990s 1.3 Stardom 1.4 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 Further reading 4 References 5 External links //

Biography

Early life and career

Nixon was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Anne Knoll, an actress, and Walter Nixon, a radio journalist.[1][2] Her first onscreen appearance was as an imposter on To Tell the Truth, where her mother worked. She began acting at age 12 as the object of a wealthy schoolmate's crush in The Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid, a 1979 ABC Afterschool Special. She made her feature debut co-starring with Kristy McNichol and Tatum O'Neal in Little Darlings (1980). She made her Broadway debut as the bratty Dinah Lord in a 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story. 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 1985 she appeared alongside Jeff Daniels in Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky at Second Stage Theatre.

Nixon graduated from Hunter College High School,[3] and made theatrical history while a freshman at Barnard College in 1984, simultaneously appearing in two hit Broadway plays directed by Mike Nichols.[4] These were The Real Thing, where Nixon played the daughter of Jeremy Irons and Christine Baranski; and Hurlyburly, where she played a young woman who encounters sleazy Hollywood types. The two theaters were just two blocks apart and Nixon's roles were both short, so she could run from one to the other.

She landed her first major supporting part 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).[5] 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 (also 1988), Robert Altman's sharply-observed, episodic political