Cynthia Nixon Biography

NAME: Cynthia Nixon

OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress

BIRTH DATE: April 09, 1966 (Age: 45)

PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York

ZODIAC SIGN: Aries

Emmy and Tony-winning actress Cynthia Nixon was born April 9, 1966, in New York, New York. A versatile performer, she began her career on the New York stage as a teenager. She made her Broadway debut in The Philadelphia Story in 1980. That same year, Nixon appeared as a hippie child in the film Little Darlings with Tatum O’Neal.

Over the next few years, Cynthia Nixon played a variety of roles on stage, television, and film. She appeared in a few television after school specials as well as juggled roles in two Broadway plays - Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and David Rabe's Hurlyburly - at the same time in 1984 and 1985. Somehow Nixon also made time to film a small role in Amadeus (1984). In the 1990s, Cynthia Nixon kept up her hectic work schedule. She made television and film appearances and performed in several productions, scoring her first Tony Award nomination in 1995 for her work in Indiscretions.

Following the conclusion of "Sex and the City," Nixon remained active in all three of her chosen mediums. She won her first Tony in 2006 for her starring turn as a grieving woman in "Rabbit Hole," while she appeared in several indie features, including 2005's "One Last Thing," in which she portrayed the mother of a terminally ill young man, and "Little Manhattan" (2005), in which she appeared as the mother of the film's lovelorn 10-year-old narrator. Television provided her the richest non-stage roles, including a lauded turn as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in the HBO feature "Warm Springs" (2006), which earned her Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. She also had showy guest shots as a mother who underg s risky surgery to deal with the effects of a stroke on "ER" (NBC, 1994-2009) and a seizure victim who tangles with Dr. House (Hugh Laurie) on "House" (Fox, 2004- ). In 2008, she even won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her 2007 turn as Janice Donovan on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC, 1999- ) None of these roles, however, generated the same groundswell of excitement as her return to Miranda Hobbes for 2008's big screen feature, "Sex and the City: The Movie," which reunited her with her three series co-stars. The film cleaned up at the box office that May and June, making the movie an event experience for girlfriends who planned an entire cosmopolitan-laden night of it, proving that movies geared to women could open just as big as action adventures did for male ticketbuyers.