Born in New York City on April 9, 1966, Cynthia Nixon began her acting career at age 12 and made Broadway history in 1984 by appearing in two hit shows simultaneously -- "The Real Thing" and "Hurlyburly" -- all while she was still a college freshman.Big-screen exposure followed in Amadeus (1984) and The Manhattan Project (1986), and Nixon continued her work onstage, earning a Tony nod for "Indiscretions" in 1996. But it was her breakthrough role as workaholic lawyer Miranda Hobbes on the HBO smash "Sex and the City" (1998-2004) that has garnered the actress her most widespread acclaim as well as an Emmy Award and two nominations.
In the wake of the show's success, Nixon earned another Emmy nod for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in the made-for-TV movie Warm Springs (2005) and nabbed a Tony the following year for "Rabbit Hole."
Warm SpringsFranklin Delano Roosevelt (Kenneth Branagh) faces personal and political crises in this biopic that begins not long after the future U.S. president is paralyzed by polio. Roosevelt endures the stigma of the disease and is moved by the plight of America's disabled. As he searches for a miracle cure,... Read More
Baby's Day OutAfter three bumbling hoodlums kidnap a toddler from a wealthy family, they discover that orchestrating the crime was much easier than holding onto the tiny heir. Home Alone screenwriter John Hughes penned this comic children's adventure. Read More
Tanner on TannerShowtime's miniseries follows up on former presidential contender Jack Tanner (Michael Murphy) and his documentary-filmmaker daughter Alex (Cynthia Nixon) 16 years after Jack's failed foray into national politics. Directed by Robert Altman and written by Gary Trudeau (who both won Emmys for the... Read More
Rampart (2011) | R | |
Sex and the City 2 (2010) | R | |
The Big C (2010) | NR | |
An Englishman in New York (2009) | NR | |
Lymelife (2008) | R | |
NR | ||
Eloise in Hollywood (2007) | TV-Y7 | |
The Babysitters (2007) | R | |
One Last Thing (2005) | R | |
Little Manhattan (2005) | PG | |
Warm Springs (2005) | TV-PG | |
NR | ||
Tanner on Tanner (2004) | NR | |
Advice from a Caterpillar (1999) | NR | |
Sex and the City (1998) | TV-MA | |
Marvin's Room (1996) | PG-13 | |
Baby's Day Out (1994) | PG | |
NR | ||
NR | ||
Let It Ride (1989) | PG-13 | |
Tanner '88 (1988) | NR | |
PG-13 | ||
O.C. and Stiggs (1985) | R | |
Amadeus (1984) | R | |
I Am the Cheese (1983) | PG | |
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