Cynthia Nixon Bio | Wiki
Cynthia Nixon is an American actress, activist, and theater director. For her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City, she won the 2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
Cynthia reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010). Her other film credits include Amadeus, James White, and playing Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion. She has been an advocate for LGBT rights in the United States, particularly the right to same-sex marriage.
Cynthia Nixon Age
Cynthia was born on April 9, 1966, in Manhattan, New York, United States. She is 56 years old.
Cynthia Nixon Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx. 1.7 m).
Cynthia Nixon Family
She was born as an only child in Manhattan, to her parents Walter Elmer Nixon Jr. and Anne Elizabeth. Cynthia’s father is a radio journalist from Texas and her mother is an actress originally from Chicago.
She credits her mother with “indoctrinating” her into the theatre. Cynthia is of English and German descent. Her grandparents were Adolph Knoll, Etta Elizabeth Williams, Walter E. Nixon, and Grace Truman McCormack. Her parents divorced when she was six years old.
Cynthia Nixon Partner | Husband | Spouse
From 1988 to 2003, Cynthia was in a relationship with schoolteacher Danny Mozes. They have two children together. In June 2018, she revealed that her older child is transgender. In 2004, she began dating education activist Christine Marinoni.
Cynthia and Marinoni became engaged in April 2009, and married in New York City on May 27, 2012, with her wearing a custom-made, pale green dress by Carolina Herrera. Marinoni gave birth to a son in 2011. Cynthia identified herself as bisexual in 2012 but now identifies as queer.
Cynthia Nixon Education
She made her first television appearance on the show at 9 as one of the “impostors”, pretending to be a junior horse riding champion. Cynthia was an actress all through her years at Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School.
She also acted in order to pay her way through Barnard College, where she received a B.A. in English Literature. Cynthia was also a student in the Semester at Sea Program in the Spring of 1986.
Cynthia Nixon Movies And Tv Shows
2014 Hannibal
2015 The Affair
2016 Broad City
2016 Killing Reagan
2020 Ratched
2021–present And Just Like That…
2022–present The Gilded Age
2015 James White
2015 The Adderall Diaries
2016 A Quiet Passion
2017 The Only Living Boy in New York
2018 The Parting Glass
2019 Stray Dolls
2020 Tailing Pond
Cynthia Nixon Amadeus
Onscreen, she played the role of Salieri’s maid/spy, Lorl, in Amadeus, a 1984 American period biographical drama film directed by Miloš Forman and adapted by Peter Shaffer from his 1979 stage play Amadeus.
Set in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 18th century, the film is a fictionalized story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from the time he left Salzburg, described by its writer as a “fantasia on the theme of Mozart and Salieri”.
Cynthia Nixon Politics | Governor
She is a long-time advocate for public education. Cynthia is a spokesperson for New York’s Alliance for Quality Education, a public education fairness advocacy organization. In 2018, it was reported that she was preparing a progressive challenge to the incumbent governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo. On March 19, 2018, Cynthia announced via Twitter that she was running for governor.
Cynthia Nixon Addams Family Values
She had a supporting role as Heather in Addams Family Values, a 1993 American supernatural black comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Paul Rudnick, based on the characters created by Charles Addams. It is the sequel to The Addams Family (1991).
Cynthia Nixon Law And Order
In 2008, she won an Emmy for her guest appearance in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, portraying a woman pretending to have dissociative identity disorder. Cynthia appeared in a Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode based on the problems surrounding the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
Her character is “Amanda Reese, the high-strung and larger-than-life director behind a problem-plagued Broadway version of Icarus,” loosely modeled after Spider-Man director Julie Taymor.
Cynthia Nixon Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Cynthia’s estimated net worth is $25 million.
Who Is Cynthia Nixon Married To
In 2004, she began dating education activist Christine Marinoni. Cynthia and Marinoni became engaged in April 2009 and married in New York City on May 27, 2012.