Cynthia Nixon Biography
Born: April 9, 1966
A true-blue New York actress who has worked on the stage and screen since her adolescence, Cynthia Nixon is probably best known to pop culture aficionados as Miranda Hobbes, the high-powered lawyer who has dated some of New York City's most dysfunctional men on HBO's Sex and the City. Although Nixon's starring role on the hugely popular series may have brought her to the attention of a new audience, observers of the New York theater had been watching the actor on and off Broadway since 1980, where she had performed in productions that included David_Rabe's +Hurlyburly, Tom_Stoppard's +The Real Thing, +Angels in America, and +Indiscretions, for which she earned a Tony nomination.
Born in New York City on April 9, 1966, Nixon made her film debut in the 1980 movie Little_Darlings. She worked steadily through the rest of the decade, appearing in films ranging from Sidney_Lumet's Prince of the City (1981) to Milos_Forman's Oscar-winning Amadeus (1984) to Robert_Altman's satirical Tanner_'88, which cast her as the daughter of the titular politician. Nixon also worked on television, popping up in various miniseries, including the 1982 abortion drama My_Body,_My_Child, in which she co-starred with Vanessa_Redgrave and future Sex and the City co-star Sarah_Jessica_Parker.
Continuing to appear on-stage in productions of Wendy_Wasserstein's +The Heidi Chronicles, Edward_Albee's +Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (for which she won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award), and +Philadelphia Story (for which she won a Theater World Award), Nixon also became a founding member of the off-Broadway theater group The Drama Dept. In 1998, after appearing onscreen sporadically throughout the 1990s, in such films as Addams_Family_Values (1993), the actor landed the most widely recognized role of her career up to that point, on Sex and the City. Co-starring alongside Sarah_Jessica_Parker, Kim_Cattrall, and Kristin_Davis, Nixon, as the hilariously caustic Miranda, enjoyed critical praise and a number of awards and nominations for her work on the show, which formed another entry on an already long and varied resumé. Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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