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Cynthia Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress
who is best known for her portrayal of lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the popular
HBO sitcom Sex and the City (1998–2004).
Nixon is a native New Yorker who graduated from Barnard College in 1988 with
a B.A. in English. Unlike Miranda, she is actually blond and not red-haired,
as some fans might have been led to believe.
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Nixon started her career at the age of 14, appearing in Little Darlings.
Around that time, she also started appearing on plays on Broadway and Off-Broadway.
In 1981, she won the Theatre World Award for her performance in The
Philadelphia Story.
In 1984, while a freshman in college, Nixon appeared simulaneously in two
Mike Nichols-directed hit Broadway plays: Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and
David Rabe's Hurlyburly. In each performance, Nixon appeared as "Donna" in
the first act of Hurlyburly at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, then walked to
the Plymouth Theatre, changed costumes and performed one scene as "Debbie"
in The Real Thing opposite Jeremy Irons and Christine Baranski. Then, Nixon
changed her costume again and returned to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre to
resume her performance as "Donna." In the interest of fairness to other
actors, Actors' Equity Association no longer permits one actor to perform in
two shows simultaneously.
Nixon's other Broadway credits include The Heidi Chronicles (1989-90),
Angels in America (1993-94), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997-98), The Women
(2001-02) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. For her participation in the
latter, she earned a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award.
Nixon has been nominated at various times for awards and critically praised
for her characterization of Miranda in Sex and the City during its six-season
run, finally winning a primetime Emmy in 2004 for Best Supporting Actress in
a Comedy Series.
In September 2004, it was reported that despite previous long-term
relationships with men, she had been in a nearly year-long relationship with
a woman, education expert Christine Marinoni. When asked about this, she
neither denied or confirmed, instead stating that "My private life is
private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is
that I am very happy."
Nixon has two children, daughter Samantha (b. 1996) and son Charles (b.
2002). Their father is Danny Mozes, an English professor, with whom Nixon
had a 15-year relationship. She has used her public profile as an advocate
for better public schools in New York, one of which her daughter attends.
It was reported in the NY Post on February 27, 2005 that Cynthia Nixon has
moved in with her partner, Christine Marinoni. Nixon was previously
splitting time between the house on the Upper West Side she shared with
Mozes and Marinoni's ground floor apartment in Park Slope. But now she and
the kids will be full-time Brooklynites. |
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