Birth Name: Cynthia Ellen Nixon
Birth Date: 9th April, 1966
Age: 42
Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Active in career since: 1978

Beginning Life and Jobs

Nixon is the daughter of Anne Knoll (actress) and Walter Nixon (radio journalist). At 12, she started acting in the ABC After school Special, The Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid (1979). But her first screen appearance was on To Tell the Truth, in which her mother too worked. Nixon attended the Hunter College High School and after graduating from there went to Barnard College where in 1984 she created a theatrical record, as a freshman, featuring in two popular Broadway plays at the same time, ‘The Real Thing’ and ‘Hurlyburly’.

Career & Works

Her important works on TV include: My Body, My Child (1982), Tanner '88 (1988), The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988), Law & Order (1990), Murder She Wrote episode: "Threshold of Fear" (1993), The Outer Limits: "Alien Radio" (1999), Sex and the City (1998-2004), ER (2005),
House (2005), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2007),

On the big screen show worked in feature films like : Little Darlings (1980), Prince of the City (1981), I Am the Cheese (1983), Amadeus (1984), Manhattan Project (1986), O.C. and Stiggs (1987), Let It Ride (1989), The Pelican Brief (1993), Addams Family Values (1993), Baby's Day Out (1994), Marvin's Room (1996), Igby Goes Down (2002), Warm Springs (2005), Little Manhattan (2005), One Last Thing... (2006), The Babysitters (2007), Sex and the City: The Movie (2008), Lymelife (2008) and An Englishman in New York (2009).

In theatre, she entered with a Broadway debut in the 1980, revival of The Philadelphia Story, followed by Lydie Breeze (1982) and Lemon Sky (1985), Romeo and Juliet (1988), The Heidi Chronicles (1989), Angels in America (1994), Indiscretions (Les Parents Terribles) (1996) and The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997).

Nixon is also amongst the founder members of The Drama Dept., the theatre troupe which has members like Billy Crudup, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dylan Baker and John Cameron Mitchell playing pivotal rules in the group’s productions of The Country Club (1999), Hope is the Thing with Feathers (1998), June Moon and As Bees in Honey Drown (both 1997) and Kingdom on Earth (1996).

Sex and the City

In the hit HBO, drama-comedy series Sex and the City, Nixon enacts the character of a strong minded, career oriented lawyer, Miranda Hobbes, who is always very skeptical of her romantic relationships and of men in general. Carrie Bradshaw’s closet friend and confidante, Miranda is an alumnus of Harvard Law School and has two siblings. During the course of the series, she gives birth to a son whose father is her off and on lover Steve Brady, after which she faces tough times, balancing her career and motherhood. Of the gang of four friends, she is one who buys her won home first.

Personal life

Nixon has had a live in relationship with English professor, Danny Mozes from1988 up till 2003 and the couple had a daughter named Samantha (born 1996) and a son named Charles Ezekiel (born 2002).
Then from 2004 onwards, she started dating Christine Marinoni, an education activist discreetly.

In 2008, Nixon had claimed that she had suffered breast cancer in the past and even got her breast cancer special program aired on NBC prime time. She is also the ambassador for Susan G. Komen for breast cancer treatment and awareness.

Awards & Achievements

Nixon has achieved for her work in Sex and the City, the 2004 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, for which she was nominated in 2002 and 2003 as well. She received another Emmy in 2008 for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in recognition for her work in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She also bagged a nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her work in Warm Springs.Along with the rest of the cast of Sex and the City, she received Screen Actors Guild Awards for
Best Ensemble - Comedy Series in 2001 and 2004.

In 2006, Nixon got the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play in regard to her work in Rabbit Hole.

Nixon was nominated in 2008 for "Best Spoken Word Album" award at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards for the album "An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore)", along with Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood.

The Point Foundation, in April 2008 bestowed an award upon her for being a role model for young gay populace.