Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress and activist. She won the 2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004) and reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010). Her film credits include Amadeus (1984), James White (2015), and A Quiet Passion (2016), where she played Emily Dickinson. Nixon made her Broadway debut in 1980 with The Philadelphia Story and appeared in several other productions, winning Tony Awards in 2006 for Rabbit Hole and in 2017 for The Little Foxes. She also won a 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and a 2009 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for An Inconvenient Truth.
In television, Nixon portrayed Eleanor Roosevelt in Warm Springs (2005), Michele Davis in Too Big to Fail (2011), and Nancy Reagan in Killing Reagan (2016). On March 19, 2018, she announced her campaign for Governor of New York, challenging Andrew Cuomo with a platform addressing income inequality, renewable energy, universal health care, mass incarceration, and protection for undocumented children. She lost the Democratic primary on September 13, 2018, receiving 34% of the vote to Cuomo's 66%. Nixon was nominated by the Working Families Party but the party later supported Cuomo. She has advocated for LGBT rights, especially same-sex marriage, met her wife at a 2002 gay rights rally, and announced their engagement in 2009. Nixon received the Yale University Artist for Equality award in 2013 and a Visibility Award from the Human Rights Campaign in 2018.
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