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Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon

Actor · Born April 9, 1966 (60) · New York City, New York, USA

2 Primetime Emmys · 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards · Golden Globe nominee · 2 other major award bodies

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cynthia Nixon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
April 9, 1966 (60)
From
New York City, New York, USA
Works as
Actor
Titles
63 on MovieCove · 98 credits in all
TMDB popularity, last 156 days to Oct 27Down 29% in 30 days

What are Cynthia Nixon's films like?

Across their 40 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.

What they feel like to watch

their average across 35 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category

A split, not a type: Light 15 · Serious 10 · Dark 10

Grounded 26 · Stylized 8 · Heightened 1

Gentle 11 · Charged 18 · Intense 6

A split, not a type: Steady 17 · Shifting 15 · Whiplash 3

Straight-faced 16 · Some laughs 16 · Funny 3

Slow burn 23 · Even-paced 10 · Relentless 2

Casual 17 · Engaged 17 · Full focus 1

A split, not a type: Easy watch 15 · Affecting 7 · Heavy 13

Resolved 26 · Open-ended 7 · Ambiguous 2

Roles they play

16 analyzed roles

Usually the Ally: 10 of 16 analyzed roles.

Ally
10 of 16
Threshold guardian
2 of 16
Mentor
1 of 16
Shapeshifter
1 of 16
Shadow
1 of 16
Hero
1 of 16
Show the 16 roles

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Warm
20
Melancholic
17
Tense
13
Contemplative
14
Bittersweet
12
Other
37

How their films end · 4 with a twist

  • Happy9
  • Bittersweet23
  • Tragic2
  • Ambiguous4
  • Cyclical1
  • Other1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Cynthia Nixon's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 43 of their 63 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (18).

Subscription and free streaming for Cynthia Nixon's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

98 credits, 63 with a MovieCove page; 31 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • Good Hang with Amy Poehler (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    Show 1 episode · Actor

  • The Seven Year Disappear (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

    as Miriam

  • The Gilded Age(2022)

    Show 25 episodes · as Ada Brook

    Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows
  • And Just Like That...(2021)

    Show 33 episodes · Director · Executive Producer · as Miranda Hobbes

    Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all shows
  • Ratched(2020)

    Show 8 episodes · as Gwendolyn Briggs

    Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all shows
  • The Lavender Scare (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    as Madeleine Tress (voice)

  • Stray Dolls(2019)

    as Una

    Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films
  • The Parting Glass(2018)

    as Mare

    Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all films
  • Maybe a Love Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    as Toni

  • That's Harassment (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    as Patient

  • Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
  • My Letter to the World(2017)

    as Emily Dickinson (voice)

    Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
  • Killing Reagan(2016)

    as Nancy Reagan

    Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
  • A Quiet Passion(2016)

    as Emily Dickinson

    Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
  • The Adderall Diaries(2015)

    as Jen Davis

    Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films
  • James White(2015)

    as Gail White

    Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
  • Rasheeda Speaking (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

    Stage Director

  • Stockholm, Pennsylvania(2015)

    as Marcy Dargon

    Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films
  • The Affair(2014)

    Show 1 episode · as Marilyn

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all shows
  • 5 Flights Up(2014)

    as Lily Portman

    Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
  • Broad City(2014)

    Show 1 episode · as Barb

    Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows
  • Alpha House(2013)

    Show 6 episodes · as Senator Carly Armiston

    Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all shows
  • Hannibal(2013)

    Show 4 episodes · as Kade Prurnell

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
  • Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's(2013)

    as Miranda Hobbes

    Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
  • Girl Most Likely(2012)

    as Cynthia Nixon

    Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all films
  • World Without End (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Show 8 episodes · as Petranilla

  • Too Big to Fail(2011)

    as Michele Davis

    Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
  • Rampart(2011)

    as Barbara

    Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
  • The Big C(2010)

    Show 1 episode · as Rebecca

    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
  • Sex and the City 2(2010)

    as Miranda Hobbes

    Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films
  • An Englishman in New York(2009)

    as Penny Arcade

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
  • Lymelife(2008)

    as Melissa Bragg

    Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
  • Sex and the City(2008)

    as Miranda Hobbes

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
  • The Babysitters(2007)

    as Gail Beltran

    Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all films
  • 3 lbs (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)

    Show 1 episode · as Dr. Karin Hanson

  • 30 Rock(2006)

    Show 1 episode · as Cynthia Nixon

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows
  • Me, Eloise(2006)

    Show 1 episode · as (voice)

    Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all shows
  • Little Manhattan(2005)

    as Leslie

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
  • One Last Thing...(2005)

    as Karen Jameison

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
  • Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)

    as Additional Voices

  • Warm Springs(2005)

    as Eleanor Roosevelt

    Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
  • House(2004)

    Show 1 episode · as Anica Javanovich

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all shows
  • Tanner on Tanner (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

    Show 4 episodes · as Alex Tanner

  • The Shakespeare Sessions (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    Actor

  • Igby Goes Down(2002)

    as Mrs. Piggee

    Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
  • The Women (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)

    as Mary Haines

  • Mark Twain(2001)

    as (voice)

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
  • Mark Twain (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)

    Show 2 episodes · as Other Voices (voice)

  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent(2001)

    Show 1 episode · as Amanda Rollins

    Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all shows
  • Papa's Angels (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)

    as Sharon Jenkins

  • Sex and the Matrix (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)

    as Miranda Hobbes

  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit(1999)

    Show 1 episode · as Janis Donovan

    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
  • The Out-of-Towners(1999)

    as Sheena

    Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films
  • Sex and the City(1998)

    Show 94 episodes · as Miranda Hobbes

    Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all shows
  • Marvin's Room(1996)

    as Retirement Home Director

    Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films
  • Early Edition (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    Show 1 episode · as Sheila

  • Nash Bridges(1996)

    Show 1 episode · as Melissa

    Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all shows
  • The 'M' Word (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    as Cara

  • The Cottonwood (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    as Donna

  • Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)

    Actor

  • New York News (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)

    Show 1 episode · Actor

  • The Outer Limits(1995)

    Show 1 episode · as Trudy

    Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all shows
  • Touched by an Angel(1994)

    Show 1 episode · as Melina Richardson / Sarah

    Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all shows
  • ER(1994)

    Show 1 episode · as Ellie Shore

    Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
  • Baby's Day Out(1994)

    as Gilbertine

    Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
  • Addams Family Values(1993)

    as Heather

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
  • The Pelican Brief(1993)

    as Alice Stark

    Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
  • Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

    as The Granddaughter

  • Through an Open Window (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

    as Nancy Cooper

  • Face of a Stranger(1991)

    as Tina Foster

    Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
  • Love, Lies and Murder (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

    Show 2 episodes · as Donna

  • The Love She Sought(1990)

    as Janet Raft

    Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
  • Law & Order(1990)

    Show 1 episode · as Laura Di Biasi

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all shows
  • Women and Wallace (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1990)

    as Sarah

  • Let It Ride(1989)

    as Evangeline

    Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
  • Gideon Oliver (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)

    Show 1 episode · as Allison Parrish Slocum

  • It's Richard I Love (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)

    Actor

  • Tanner '88 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)

    Show 12 episodes · as Alex Tanner

  • The Murder of Mary Phagan(1988)

    Show 2 episodes · as Doreen

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all shows
  • O.C. and Stiggs(1985)

    as Michelle

    Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films
  • The Manhattan Project(1986)

    as Jenny Anderman

    Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
  • The Equalizer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)

    Show 1 episode · as Jackie

  • Murder, She Wrote(1984)

    Show 1 episode · as Alice Morgan

    Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all shows
  • Amadeus(1984)

    as Lorl

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
  • I Am the Cheese (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1983)

    as Amy Hertz

  • Fifth of July (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1982)

    as Shirley Talley

  • My Body, My Child(1982)

    as Nancy

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
  • American Playhouse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1982)

    Show 1 episode · as Sarah · as Shirley Talley

  • Tattoo(1981)

    as Cindy

    Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films
  • Prince of the City(1981)

    as Jeannie

    Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
  • The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1981)

    as Sue Ellen

  • On The Level (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)

    Show 12 episodes · Actor

  • Little Darlings(1980)

    as Sunshine

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films
  • Ratched (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Gwendolyn Briggs

  • Sex and the City: A Farewell (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Miranda Hobbs

Career shape

Star power in the 99th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 97 titles, 95 of them dated from 1980 to 2025; peak year 2015.

Film career

MilestoneAward winNomination
19802025

Peak 2015 · at the high point of their film career. Top draw in 11 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.

Show 1 more milestone

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting96 of 97: 95 only acting, 1 with another role · typical Midcredits score67thDirecting1 of 97: 0 only directing, 1 with another roleProducing1 of 97: 0 only producing, 1 with another roleOther crew1 of 97: 1 only other crew, 0 with another role

By decade

1980s20 · acting1990s24 · acting2000s21 · acting2010s24 · 23 acting · 1 crew2020s6 · 6 acting · 1 crew

Billing

usually 5th · top billed in 4% of 28 roles
80951015

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.

Awards

2 Primetime Emmys, 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards and 1 other major award from 20 major nominations, 2000–2024.

WinNomination
  1. 2024
    • Screen Actors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
  2. 2021
    • Golden Globe, nominated · Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Supporting Role
  3. 2016
    • Independent Spirit Award, nominated · Best Supporting Female
  4. 2009
    • Grammy Award, won · Best Spoken Word Album
  5. 2008
    • Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
  6. 2006
    • Golden Globe, nominated · Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television
    • Screen Actors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
  7. 2005
    • Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
    • Screen Actors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
  8. 2004
    • Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
    • Golden Globe, nominated · Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
    • Screen Actors Guild Award, won · Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
Show 4 earlier years
  1. 2003
    • Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
    • Golden Globe, nominated · Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
    • Screen Actors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
  2. 2002
    • Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
    • Screen Actors Guild Award, won · Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
  3. 2001
    • Golden Globe, nominated · Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
    • Screen Actors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
  4. 2000
    • Golden Globe, nominated · Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

How do Cynthia Nixon's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 61st percentile, the median of the 41 of 42 with a score; across their 35 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 56th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

56thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 35

Approval · how many liked their films

55thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 35

Reach · how many have seen their films

73rdpercentile
Typical film, the median of 35

Midcredits score across 62 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up24
  • 50th to 74th19
  • 25th to 49th11
  • Below 25th8

Shape of the crowd

27 of their 62 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Universally Loved12
  • Cult Classic5
  • Crowd Pleaser27
  • Broadly Agreed3
  • Mixed15

Reviewers score the acting 71/100 in their films, across 30 reviewed titles; fans 82, detractors 50. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Is Cynthia Nixon's work okay for kids?

Across up to 18 MovieCove titles with content scores, sex & nudity, profanity and alcohol & drugs run heavier than most films and violence & gore lighter.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore13 titles9–68 · median 22 · mildlighter than most filmsMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity18 titles15–75 · median 55 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 32
Profanity13 titles23–76 · median 52 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 36
Alcohol & Drugs13 titles11–65 · median 51 · moderateheavier than most filmsMedian of all films: 33
Frightening / Intense13 titles5–48 · median 31 · mildnear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 39

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.

Who does Cynthia Nixon work with?

People who share at least 2 of Cynthia Nixon's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Sarah Jessica Parker shares the most, 7.

Directors

Actors

Composers, cinematographers and editors

Producers