Cynthia Nixon - wikipedia Cynthia Nixon Cynthia Nixon Nixon in May 2014 Cynthia Ellen Nixon ( 1966 - 04 - 09 ) April 9, 1966 ( age 51 ) New York City, New York, United States Occupation Actress Years active 1979 -- present Spouse ( s ) Christine Marinoni ( m. 2012 ) Partner ( s ) Danny Mozes ( 1988 -- 2003 ) Children Cynthia Ellen Nixon ( born April 9, 1966 ) is an American actress. She is 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 ). Other film credits include Amadeus ( 1984 ), The Pelican Brief ( 1993 ), Little Manhattan ( 2005 ), 5 Flights Up ( 2014 ), James White ( 2015 ), and playing Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion ( 2016 ). 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 ), The Women ( 2001 ), and Wit ( 2012 ). She won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Rabbit Hole, the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order : Special Victims Unit, the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for An Inconvenient Truth, and the 2017 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Little Foxes. Her other television roles include playing political figures Eleanor Roosevelt in Warm Springs ( 2005 ), Michele Davis in Too Big to Fail ( 2011 ), and playing Nancy Reagan in the 2016 television film Killing Reagan. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Early career 2.2 1990s 2.3 Stardom 2.4 2010s 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4.1 Film 4.2 Television 5 Awards and nominations 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Early life Nixon was born in New York City, the only child of Anne Elizabeth ( née Knoll ; 1930 -- 2012 ), originally from Chicago, and Walter E. Nixon, Jr., a radio journalist from Texas. She is of English and German descent. Nixon 's parents divorced when she was six years old. She graduated from Hunter College High School and attended Barnard College. In the spring of 1986, she studied abroad with Semester at Sea. Career Early Career Nixon 's 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 school mate '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 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 1984, while a freshman at Barnard College, Nixon made theatrical history by simultaneously appearing in two hit Broadway plays directed by Mike Nichols. 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 executives. The two theaters were just two blocks apart and Nixon 's roles were both short, so she could run from one to the other. 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. 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 ). 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 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, 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 was the guest star in the second episode of the long running NBC television series Law & Order. She played the role of an agoraphobic woman in a February 1993 episode of Murder, She Wrote titled, `` Threshold of Fear ''. Nixon succeeded Marcia Gay Harden as Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner 's Angels in America ( 1994 ), received a Tony nomination for her performance in Indiscretions ( Les Parents Terribles ) ( 1996 ), her sixth Broadway show, and, although 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 Off - Broadway theatrical troupe 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 had supporting roles in Addams Family Values ( 1993 ), Baby 's Day Out ( 1994 ), Marvin 's Room ( 1996 ) and The Out - of - Towners ( 1999 ). Stardom 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. 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. 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, 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. 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. 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 ). 2010s 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. 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. 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. Nixon received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play for this performance. 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 ''. Nixon played the leading role of reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson in the biographical film A Quiet Passion directed and written by Terence Davies. The film premiered in February 2016 at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. In May 2016, it was announced that Nixon would play Nancy Reagan in the upcoming television film adaptation of Killing Reagan. Filming began in late May and the film aired in October 2016. Nixon appeared on Broadway in the revival of The Little Foxes, officially opening on April 19, 2017 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. She alternated the roles of Regina and Birdie with Laura Linney, winning her second Tony Award for her performance as Birdie. Personal life Nixon and wife Christine Marinoni From 1988 to 2003, Nixon was in a relationship with schoolteacher Danny Mozes. They have two children together, daughter Samantha ( born November 1996 ) and son Charles Ezekiel ( born December 16, 2002 ). In 2004, Nixon began dating education activist Christine Marinoni. Nixon and Marinoni became engaged in April 2009, and married in New York City on May 27, 2012, with Nixon wearing a custom - made, pale green dress by Carolina Herrera. Marinoni gave birth to a son, Max Ellington, in 2011. Regarding her sexual orientation, Nixon remarked in 2007 : `` I do n'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 did n't seem so strange. I 'm just a woman in love with another woman. '' She identified herself as bisexual in 2012. Nixon has taken a public stand supporting the legalization of same - sex marriage in Washington state, Marinoni 's home state, hosting a fundraising event in support of Washington Referendum 74 for that purpose. In October 2006, Nixon was diagnosed with breast cancer during routine mammography. She initially decided not to go public with her illness because of the stigma involved, but in April 2008, she announced her battle with the disease in an interview with Good Morning America. 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, and became an Ambassador for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1980 Little Darlings Sunshine Walker 1981 Prince of the City Jeannie I Am the Cheese Amy Hertz 1984 Amadeus Lorl 1986 Manhattan Project, The The Manhattan Project Jenny Anderman O.C. and Stiggs Michelle 1988 Murder of Mary Phagan, The The Murder of Mary Phagan Doreen 1989 Let It Ride Evangeline 1993 Pelican Brief, The The Pelican Brief Alice Stark 1993 Addams Family Values Heather 1993 Through an Open Window Nancy Cooper Short film Baby 's Day Out Gilbertine Marvin 's Room Retirement Home Director 2000 Papa 's Angels Sharon Jenkins 2001 Advice From a Caterpillar Missy 2002 Igby Goes Down Mrs. Piggee 2005 Little Manhattan Leslie Burton 2006 One Last Thing... Carol 2007 Babysitters, The The Babysitters Gail Beltran 2008 Sex and the City : The Movie Miranda Hobbes 2009 Lymelife Melissa Bragg 2009 Englishman in New York, An An Englishman in New York Penny Arcade Sex and the City 2 Miranda Hobbes 2011 Rampart Barbara 2014 5 Flights Up Niece 2015 Stockholm, Pennsylvania Marcy Dargon 2015 James White Gail White 2015 The Adderall Diaries Jen Davis 2016 A Quiet Passion Emily Dickinson 2017 The Only Living Boy in New York Judith Webb Television Year Title Role Notes 1982 My Body, My Child Nancy TV film 1988 Tanner ' 88 Alex Tanner 10 episodes 1989 Gideon Oliver Allison Parrish Slocum Episode : `` Sleep Well, Professor Oliver '' 1989 The Equalizer Jackie Episode : `` Silent Fury '' 1990 The Young Riders Annie 2 episodes 1990 Law & Order Laura di Biasi Episode : `` Subterranean Homeboy Blues '' 1990 A Green Journey Janet TV film 1991 Love, Lies and Murder Donna Miniseries 1993 Murder, She Wrote Alice Morgan Episode : `` Threshold of Fear '' Early Edition Sheila Episode : `` Baby '' 1998 -- 2004 Sex and the City Miranda Hobbes 94 episodes 1999 Outer Limits, The The Outer Limits Trudy Episode : `` Alien Radio '' 1999 Touched by an Angel Melina Richardson / Sister Sarah Episode : `` Into the Fire '' Tanner on Tanner Alex Tanner 4 episodes 2005 ER Ellie Episode : `` Alone in a Crowd '' 2005 Warm Springs Eleanor Roosevelt TV film 2005 House Anica Jovanovich Episode : `` Deception '' 2007 Law & Order : Special Victims Unit Janis Episode : `` Alternate '' 2010 -- 2011 Big C, The The Big C Rebecca 10 episodes 2011 Too Big to Fail Michele Davis TV film 2011 Law & Order : Criminal Intent Amanda Rollins Episode : `` Icarus '' 2012 World Without End Petronilla 7 episodes 2012 30 Rock Herself Episode : `` Kidnapped by Danger '' 2013 -- 2014 Alpha House Senator Carly Armiston 6 episodes 2014 Hannibal Kade Prurnell 4 episodes 2015 The Affair Marilyn Episode : `` 210 '' 2016 Broad City Barb Episode : `` 2016 '' 2016 Killing Reagan Nancy Reagan TV film Awards and nominations Year Association Nominated work Result 1981 Theatre World Award The Philadelphia Story. Won Young Artist Awards Exceptional Performance by a Younger Actress in a Supporting Role The Manhattan Project Nominated 1995 Tony Awards Best Featured Actress in a Play Indiscretions Nominated 2000 Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actress -- Series, Miniseries or Television Film Sex and the City Nominated 2001 Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actress -- Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nominated 2002 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Won 2003 Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actress -- Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated Satellite Awards Best Supporting Actress -- Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Nominated Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actress -- Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Won Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Won 2005 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Warm Springs Nominated Satellite Awards Best Actress -- Miniseries or Television Film Nominated Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Sex and the City Nominated 2006 Golden Globe Awards Best Actress -- Miniseries or Television Film Warm Springs Nominated Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Nominated Tony Awards Best Actress in a Play Rabbit Hole Won 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Law & Order : Special Victims Unit Won 2009 People 's Choice Awards Favorite Cast Sex and the City : The Movie Nominated Grammy Awards Best Spoken Word Album ( with Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood ) An Inconvenient Truth Won 2011 Golden Raspberry Awards Worst Actress Sex and the City 2 Won 2012 Tony Awards Best Actress in a Play Wit Nominated 2015 Critics Choice Awards Best Supporting Actress in a Movie / Limited Series Stockholm, Pennsylvania Nominated Chicago Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress James White Nominated Detroit Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actress Nominated Online Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actress Nominated 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards Best Supporting Female Nominated Satellite Awards Best Actress -- Miniseries or Television Film Stockholm, Pennsylvania Nominated 2017 Critics ' Choice Television Awards Best Actress in a Movie / Limited Series Killing Reagan Nominated Tony Awards Best Featured Actress in a Play The Little Foxes Won Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Won Drama League Award Distinguished Performance Nominated Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Won Women Film Critics Circle Awards Best Actress A Quiet Passion Nominated International Online Film Critics ' Poll Best Actress Nominated Online Film Critics Society Award Best Actress Nominated Florida Film Critics Circle Awards Best Actress Nominated 2018 National Society of Film Critics Awards Best Actress Runner - up See also Biography portal LGBT culture in New York City References Jump up ^ Bolger, Timothy. `` Sex and The City Star Rings in Breast Cancer Awareness Month on Long Island ''. 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Potter ( producer ) - A Song Flung Up to Heaven / Robin Williams, Nathaniel Kunkel ( engineer / mixer ), Peter Asher ( producer ) - Live 2002 Al Franken, Paul Ruben ( producer ) - Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them 2005 Bill Clinton - My Life 2006 Barack Obama - Dreams from My Father 2007 Jimmy Carter - Our Endangered Values : America 's Moral Crisis / Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee - With Ossie and Ruby 2008 Barack Obama, Jacob Bronstein ( producer ) - The Audacity of Hope 2009 Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, Blair Underwood - An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore Complete list ( 1959 & 1960s ) ( 1970s ) ( 1980s ) ( 1990s ) ( 2000s ) ( 2010s ) Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Will & Grace, season 2 / season 3 ( 2000 ) : Hayes ; McCormack ; Messing ; Mullally Sex and the City, season 4 ( 2001 ) : Cattrall ; Davis ; Nixon ; Parker Everybody Loves Raymond season 6 / season 7 ( 2002 ) : Boyle ; Garrett ; Heaton ; Roberts ; Romano ; Sweeten Sex and the City, season 6 ( 2003 ) : Cattrall ; Davis ; Nixon ; Parker Desperate Housewives, season 1 ( 2004 ) : Bowen ; Chavira ; Cross ; Culp ; Denton ; Hatcher ; Huffman ; Kasch ; Longoria ; Metcalfe ; Moses ; Sheridan ; Strong Desperate Housewives, season 1 / season 2 ( 2005 ) : Bart ; Bowen ; Brooks ; Chavira ; Cross ; Culp ; Denton ; Hatcher ; Huffman ; B. Kinsman ; S. Kinsman ; Longoria ; Moses ; Savant ; Sheridan ; Strong ; Woodard The Office, season 2 / season 3 ( 2006 ) : Baker ; Baumgartner ; Carell ; Denman ; Fischer ; Flannery ; Hardin ; Kaling ; Kinsey ; Krasinski ; Lieberstein ; Novak ; Nunez ; Smith ; Wilson The Office, season 3 / season 4 ( 2007 ) : Baker ; Baumgartner ; Carell ; Denman ; Fischer ; Flannery ; Hardin ; Kaling ; Kinsey ; Krasinski ; Lieberstein ; Novak ; Nunez ; Smith ; Wilson 30 Rock, season 2 / season 3 ( 2008 ) : Adsit ; Baldwin ; Bowden ; Fey ; Friedlander ; Krakowski ; McBrayer ; Morgan ; Powell Glee, season 1 ( 2009 ) : Agron ; Colfer ; Gallagher ; Gilsig ; Lynch ; Mays ; McHale ; Michele ; Monteith ; Morris ; Morrison ; Riley ; Rivera ; Salling ; Shum ; Sussman ; Talton ; Theba ; Ushkowitz Complete list ( 1994 -- 1999 ) ( 2000 -- 2009 ) ( 2010 -- 2019 ) Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play Ingrid Bergman / Helen Hayes ( 1947 ) Judith Anderson / Katharine Cornell / Jessica Tandy ( 1948 ) Martita Hunt ( 1949 ) Shirley Booth ( 1950 ) Uta Hagen ( 1951 ) Julie Harris ( 1952 ) Shirley Booth ( 1953 ) Audrey Hepburn ( 1954 ) Nancy Kelly ( 1955 ) Julie Harris ( 1956 ) Margaret Leighton ( 1957 ) Helen Hayes ( 1958 ) Gertrude Berg ( 1959 ) Anne Bancroft ( 1960 ) Joan Plowright ( 1961 ) Margaret Leighton ( 1962 ) Uta Hagen ( 1963 ) Sandy Dennis ( 1964 ) Irene Worth ( 1965 ) Rosemary Harris ( 1966 ) Beryl Reid ( 1967 ) Zoe Caldwell ( 1968 ) Julie Harris ( 1969 ) Tammy Grimes ( 1970 ) Maureen Stapleton ( 1971 ) Sada Thompson ( 1972 ) Julie Harris ( 1973 ) Colleen Dewhurst ( 1974 ) Ellen Burstyn ( 1975 ) Irene Worth ( 1976 ) Julie Harris ( 1977 ) Jessica Tandy ( 1978 ) Constance Cummings / Carole Shelley ( 1979 ) Phyllis Frelich ( 1980 ) Jane Lapotaire ( 1981 ) Zoe Caldwell ( 1982 ) Jessica Tandy ( 1983 ) Glenn Close ( 1984 ) Stockard Channing ( 1985 ) Lily Tomlin ( 1986 ) Linda Lavin ( 1987 ) Joan Allen ( 1988 ) Pauline Collins ( 1989 ) Maggie Smith ( 1990 ) Mercedes Ruehl ( 1991 ) Glenn Close ( 1992 ) Madeline Kahn ( 1993 ) Diana Rigg ( 1994 ) Cherry Jones ( 1995 ) Zoe Caldwell ( 1996 ) Janet McTeer ( 1997 ) Marie Mullen ( 1998 ) Judi Dench ( 1999 ) Jennifer Ehle ( 2000 ) Mary - Louise Parker ( 2001 ) Lindsay Duncan ( 2002 ) Vanessa Redgrave ( 2003 ) Phylicia Rashad ( 2004 ) Cherry Jones ( 2005 ) Cynthia Nixon ( 2006 ) Julie White ( 2007 ) Deanna Dunagan ( 2008 ) Marcia Gay Harden ( 2009 ) Viola Davis ( 2010 ) Frances McDormand ( 2011 ) Nina Arianda ( 2012 ) Cicely Tyson ( 2013 ) Audra McDonald ( 2014 ) Helen Mirren ( 2015 ) Jessica Lange ( 2016 ) Laurie Metcalf ( 2017 ) Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play Patricia Neal ( 1947 ) Shirley Booth ( 1949 ) Maureen Stapleton ( 1951 ) Marian Winters ( 1952 ) Beatrice Straight ( 1953 ) Jo Van Fleet ( 1954 ) Patricia Jessel ( 1955 ) Una Merkel ( 1956 ) Peggy Cass ( 1957 ) Anne Bancroft ( 1958 ) Julie Newmar ( 1959 ) Anne Revere ( 1960 ) Colleen Dewhurst ( 1961 ) Elizabeth Ashley ( 1962 ) Sandy Dennis ( 1963 ) Barbara Loden ( 1964 ) Alice Ghostley ( 1965 ) Zoe Caldwell ( 1966 ) Marian Seldes ( 1967 ) Zena Walker ( 1968 ) Jane Alexander ( 1969 ) Blythe Danner ( 1970 ) Rae Allen ( 1971 ) Elizabeth Wilson ( 1972 ) Leora Dana ( 1973 ) Frances Sternhagen ( 1974 ) Rita Moreno ( 1975 ) Shirley Knight ( 1976 ) Trazana Beverley ( 1977 ) Ann Wedgeworth ( 1978 ) Joan Hickson ( 1979 ) Dinah Manoff ( 1980 ) Swoosie Kurtz ( 1981 ) Amanda Plummer ( 1982 ) Judith Ivey ( 1983 ) Christine Baranski ( 1984 ) Judith Ivey ( 1985 ) Swoosie Kurtz ( 1986 ) Mary Alice ( 1987 ) L. Scott Caldwell ( 1988 ) Christine Baranski ( 1989 ) Margaret Tyzack ( 1990 ) Irene Worth ( 1991 ) Bríd Brennan ( 1992 ) Debra Monk ( 1993 ) Jane Adams ( 1994 ) Frances Sternhagen ( 1995 ) Audra McDonald ( 1996 ) Lynne Thigpen ( 1997 ) Anna Manahan ( 1998 ) Elizabeth Franz ( 1999 ) Blair Brown ( 2000 ) Viola Davis ( 2001 ) Katie Finneran ( 2002 ) Michele Pawk ( 2003 ) Audra McDonald ( 2004 ) Adriane Lenox ( 2005 ) Frances de la Tour ( 2006 ) Jennifer Ehle ( 2007 ) Rondi Reed ( 2008 ) Angela Lansbury ( 2009 ) Scarlett Johansson ( 2010 ) Ellen Barkin ( 2011 ) Judith Light ( 2012 ) Judith Light ( 2013 ) Sophie Okonedo ( 2014 ) Annaleigh Ashford ( 2015 ) Jayne Houdyshell ( 2016 ) Cynthia Nixon ( 2017 ) VIAF : 81434102 LCCN : n82225010 ISNI : 0000 0000 7841 1572 GND : 137210922 SUDOC : 171178912 BNF : cb14211358n ( data ) MusicBrainz : f390726e - 963a - 472f - 88c9 - 7fc4a2b68f64 IATH : w6r50zzh Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cynthia_Nixon&oldid=821581961 '' Categories : 1966 births Living people Actresses from New York City American child actresses American film actresses American people of English descent American people of German descent American people of Irish descent American people of Scottish descent American people of Welsh descent American television actresses Bisexual women Hunter College High School alumni Barnard College alumni Breast cancer survivors Grammy Award winners Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award winners Tony Award winners LGBT entertainers from the United States Bisexual actresses 20th - century American actresses 21st - century American actresses LGBT people from New York ( state ) Hidden categories : Use mdy dates from October 2015 Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from April 2017 Articles with IBDb links Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC - ID identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Asturianu تۆرکجه Български Català Čeština Cymraeg Dansk Deutsch Eesti Ελληνικά Español فارسی Français 한국어 Bahasa Indonesia Italiano עברית ქართული Magyar Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Polski Português Română Русский Simple English Slovenčina Српски / srpski Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Svenska Tagalog Türkçe اردو 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 21 January 2018, at 10 : 39. 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Question: who played miranda in sex and the city
Answer: Cynthia Ellen Nixon