As of July 2026, Cynthia Nixon is best known for Sex and the City and Hannibal. Find every show and movie Cynthia Nixon has starred in — and where to watch them — below.
Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon

Actress Born 1966 New York City, New York, USA 7 TV Shows 8 Movies

Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress, activist, and theater director. For her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004), she won the 2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the television show And Just Like That... (2021–present). Her other film credits include Amadeus (1984), James White (2015), and playing Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016).

Nixon made her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story. Her other Broadway credits include The Real Thing (1983), Hurlyburly (1983), Indiscretions (1995), The Women (2001), and Wit (2012). She won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Rabbit Hole, the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for An Inconvenient Truth, and the 2017 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Little Foxes. Her other television roles include playing political figures Eleanor Roosevelt , Kade Prenall in NBC Hannibal Warm Springs (2005), Michele Davis in Too Big to Fail (2011), and playing Nancy Reagan in the 2016 television film Killing Reagan. In 2020, she appeared in the Netflix drama Ratched.

On March 19, 2018, Nixon announced her campaign for Governor of New York as a challenger to Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo. Her platform focused on income inequality, renewable energy, establishing universal health care, stopping mass incarceration in the United States, and protecting undocumented children from deportation. She lost in the Democratic primary to Cuomo on September 13, 2018, with 34% of the vote to his 66%. Nixon was nominated as the gubernatorial candidate for the Working Families Party; the party threw its support to Cuomo after Nixon lost in the Democratic primary.

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Alongside acting, Cynthia Nixon is also known as a director, activist. Her screen credits lean toward Drama and Comedy.

Cynthia Nixon's most notable role to date came in Amadeus (1984), where she played Lorl. She also appeared in Addams Family Values (1993) as Heather. Most recently appeared in Hannibal (2013) as Kade Prurnell.

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📺 Cynthia Nixon's TV Shows

Sex and the City
Miranda Hobbes
1998
Hannibal
Kade Prurnell
2013
The Gilded Age
Ada Brook
2022
And Just Like That…
Miranda Hobbes
2021
Alpha House
Senator Carly Armiston
2013
Ratched
Gwendolyn Briggs
2020
World Without End
Petranilla
2012

🎬 Cynthia Nixon's Movies

The Babysitters
Gail Beltran
2008
Sex and the City
Miranda Hobbes
2008
Amadeus
Lorl
1984
Baby's Day Out
Gilbertine
1994
Addams Family Values
Heather
1993
Sex and the City 2
Miranda Hobbes
2010
The Pelican Brief
Alice Stark
1993
Tattoo
Cindy
1981

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