Cynthia Niro

Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress, activist, and theater director. She is known for her role as 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), as well as in the television series *And Just Like That...* (2021–present). Her other film credits include *Amadeus* (1984), *James White* (2015), and her portrayal of Emily Dickinson in *A Quiet Passion* (2016).

Nixon made her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of *The Philadelphia Story*. Her 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 portrayals of Eleanor Roosevelt in *Hannibal* (2005), Michele Davis in *Too Big to Fail* (2011), and Nancy Reagan in the 2016 television film *Killing Reagan*. In 2020, she appeared in the Netflix drama *Ratched*.

On March 19, 2018, Nixon announced her campaign for Governor of New York as a challenger to Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo. Her platform focused on income inequality, renewable energy, establishing universal health care, stopping mass incarceration in the United States, and protecting undocumented children from deportation. She lost in the Democratic primary to Cuomo on September 13, 2018, with 34% of the vote to his 66%. Nixon was nominated as the gubernatorial candidate for the Working Families Party; the party threw its support to Cuomo after Nixon lost in the Democratic primary.