Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon is perhaps best known for playing Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City, a role that won her a Primetime Emmy in 2004. She reprised the character in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the sequel series And Just Like That... (2021-present).

Beyond television, Nixon has a long and distinguished stage career. She made her Broadway debut at just 14 in the 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story. She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Rabbit Hole in 2006 and another for Featured Actress in a Play for The Little Foxes in 2017. She has also won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for An Inconvenient Truth and a second Primetime Emmy for her guest role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Her film work includes Amadeus (1984), James White (2015), and A Quiet Passion (2016), where she played Emily Dickinson.

A native of Manhattan, she has been active in film, television, and theater since the late 1970s. Nixon is also a political activist and a director. In her personal life, she identified her older child as transgender in 2018. She married education activist Christine Marinoni in 2012, after a long relationship that began in 2004; the couple has a son together.