Cynthia Nixon
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Cynthia Nixon has worked extensively on the stage, as well as in numerous films and television movies. She was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for her role as the smart, cynical lawyer, Miranda, in HBO's Sex and the City.
Nixon received rave notices for her most recent stage appearance in Douglas Carter Beane's "The Country Club." She will next appear in Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" at the Aspen Comedy Festival and in New York at the Westside Arts Theatre, with Marlo Thomas and Rita Moreno.
At 14, Nixon won a Theater World Award for her stage debut in Ellis Rabb's production of "The Philadelphia Story," at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater. At 15, she was directed by Louis Malle in the title role of John Guare's "Lydia Breeze." Most remarkably, at 18 and while a freshman at Barnard College, she appeared simultaneously in two Broadway productions - David Rabe's "Hurlyburly" and Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing," both directed by Mike Nichols.
Nixon acted throughout her college career, including the role of Juliet in the New York Shakespeare Festival Production of "Romeo and Juliet," and as Alex Tanner in HBO's "Tanner '88," Robert Altman and Gary Trudeau's political spoof. Nixon next appeared on Broadway in Wendy Wasserstein's "The Heidi Chronicles." She also performed in Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" (1994) and Alfred Uhry's "The Last Nights of Ballyhoo" (1997). She was honored with a Tony nomination in 1995 for her role in the Broadway hit "Indiscretions," with Roger Rees and Jude Law.
Nixon has also appeared on stage in: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," directed by Edward Albee and co-starring Glenda Jackson and John Lithgow; "Our Town;" "The Master Builder," opposite Sam Waterston, "Arms and the Man;" Tony Kushner's adaptation of Corneilles' "The Illusion;" "The Scarlet Letter;" and Ibsen's "A Doll House."
As one of the founding members of the theater company, Drama Dept., (along with J. Smith-Cameron, Nicky Silver, John Cameron Mitchell, Sarah Jessica Parker and Douglas Carter Beane), Nixon has appeared in their productions of Beane's "The Country Club;" Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman's "June Moon;" Tennessee Williams' "Kingdom of Earth;" Frank Puliese's "Hope is the Thing With Feathers;" and Beane's "As Bees in Honey Drown."
Nixon began her film career at age 12 with Ronald F. Maxwell's "Little Darlings," with Kristy McNichol and Matt Dillon. She went on to appear in such films as: Sidney Lumet's "Prince of the City;" Milos Forman's "Amadeus;" Robert Altman's "O.C. & Stiggs;" Marshall Brickman's "The Manhattan Project;" "Let it Ride," with Richard Dreyfuss; "Addams Family Values;" "The Pelican Brief;" John Hughes' "Baby's Day Out;" "Marvin's Room;" "The Out-of-Towners;" and "Advice from a Caterpillar."
Nixon has appeared on network television opposite Gena Rowlands in "Face of a Stranger," and in "The Love She Sought" with Angela Lansbury. When they were 13 and 14, Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker played Vanessa Redgrave's young daughters in "My Body, My Child" about a woman's right to choose.
Nixon's other television work includes roles in: " The Equalizer;" "Law & Order;" "Nash Bridges;" "The Murder of Mary Phagan;" and "Early Edition."
Born and raised in New York, Nixon attended Hunter College High School and has a degree in English Literature from Barnard College. She has been acting professionally since the age of 12. She lives in New York with her partner Daniel Mozes and their three-year-old daughter, Samantha.