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Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Ellen Nixon is an American actress and liberal activist. For her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004), 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 credits include Amadeus (1984), James White (2015), and playing Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016).


Aliases
  • Cynthia Ellen Nixon
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Sex and the City

1998
as Miranda Hobbes

Ratched

2020
as Gwendolyn Briggs

And Just Like That...

2021
as Miranda Hobbes

The Gilded Age

2022
as Ada Brook

World Without End

2012
as Petranilla

The Big C

2010
as Rebecca

Mark Twain

2002
as Other Voices

Tanner on Tanner

2004
as Alex Tanner

Tanner '88

1988
as Alex Tanner

Director

Episode And Just Like That...
Bomb Cyclone
2023
Episode And Just Like That...
Diwali
2022
Episode And Just Like That...
Trick or Treat
2023

Guest Star

Episode The Daily Show
Cynthia Nixon
2018
Episode Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Cynthia Nixon & Kim Petras
2023
Episode Early Edition
Baby
1996
Episode House
Deception
2005
Episode Law & Order
Subterranean Homeboy Blues
1990
Episode Alpha House
Prayer Brunch
2013
Episode Broad City
2016
2016
Episode Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Patti Lupone and Cynthia Nixon
2022
Episode Alpha House
Showgirls
2014
Episode Today
November 9, 2015
2015
Episode The Equalizer
Silent Fury
1989
Episode The Outer Limits (1995)
Alien Radio (a.k.a. Dead Air)
1999
Episode Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Sharon Stone, Sarah Paulson & Cynthia Nixon
2020
Episode Murder, She Wrote
Threshold of Fear
1993
Episode Variety: Actors on Actors
Zendaya, Andrew Garfield and more
2022
Episode The Young Riders
Gathering Clouds (2)
1990
Episode The Young Riders
Gathering Clouds (1)
1990
Episode Poetry In America
I Cannot Dance Opon My Toes - Emily Dickinson
2018
Episode Alpha House
No Shame
2013
Episode 30 Rock
Kidnapped by Danger
2012
Episode The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Cynthia Nixon/John Spencer/Al Green
2005
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 5
2008
Episode Alpha House
In the Saddle
2014
Episode Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Kevin Spacey, Cynthia Nixon, Brian Kiley
2008
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Glass Animals
2021
Episode Hannibal
Mizumono
2014
Episode Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Alternate
2007
Episode Hannibal
Kaiseki
2014
Episode New York News
The Using Game
1970
Episode Hannibal
Sakizuke
2014
Episode The Daily Show
Cynthia Nixon
2003
Episode The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Patti LaBelle/Cynthia Nixon
2004
Episode Today
November 5, 2014
2014
Episode Touched by an Angel
Into the Fire
1999
Episode Hannibal
Hassun
2014
Episode Alpha House
The Rebuttal
2013
Episode 3 Lbs.
Disarming
2006
Episode The Oprah Winfrey Show
Sex and the City Cast Reunion
2008
Episode Today
April 30, 2015
2015
Episode Monty
Pilot
1970