
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.
- April 9, 1966 (60)
- New York City, New York, USA
- Actor
- 63 on MovieCove · 98 credits in all
What are Cynthia Nixon's films like?
Across their 40 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 34
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
Usually the Ally: 10 of 16 analyzed roles.
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- Allyas Alice in Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1982)
- Allyas Jenny Anderman in The Manhattan Project (1986)
- Threshold guardianas Tina in Face of a Stranger (1991)
- Allyas Miranda Hobbes in Sex and the City (1998)
- Allyas Eleanor Roosevelt in Warm Springs (2005)
- Mentoras Karen Jameison in One Last Thing... (2005)
- Allyas Miranda Hobbes in Sex and the City (2008)
- Allyas Penny Arcade in An Englishman in New York (2009)
- Allyas Miranda Hobbes in Sex and the City 2 (2010)
- Threshold guardianas Gail White in James White (2015)
- Allyas Jen Davis in The Adderall Diaries (2015)
- Shapeshifteras Marcy Dargon in Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
- Allyas Nancy Reagan in Killing Reagan (2016)
- Shadowas Una in Stray Dolls (2019)
- Allyas Gwendolyn Briggs in Ratched (2020)
- Heroas Miranda Hobbes in And Just Like That... (2021)
Moods and endings
- 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).
- Little Manhattan (2005) · actor · free
- The Big C (2010) · actor · free
- The Love She Sought (1990) · actor · free
- James White (2015) · actor · free
- An Englishman in New York (2009) · actor · free
- Lymelife (2008) · actor · free
- Igby Goes Down (2002) · actor · free
- My Letter to the World (2017) · actor · free
- A Quiet Passion (2016) · actor · free
- Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's (2013) · actor · free
- Me, Eloise (2006) · actor · free
- Nash Bridges (1996) · actor · free
- +6 more
- Hannibal (2013) · actor
- Little Manhattan (2005) · actor
- The Outer Limits (1995) · actor
- The Affair (2014) · actor · free
- An Englishman in New York (2009) · actor
- Lymelife (2008) · actor
- Igby Goes Down (2002) · actor
- Alpha House (2013) · actor
- A Quiet Passion (2016) · actor
- Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's (2013) · actor
- The Only Living Boy in New York (2017) · actor
- Nash Bridges (1996) · actor · free
- +3 more
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- Docurama, show their title on Docurama
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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)
The Seven Year Disappear (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

The Gilded Age(2022)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows
And Just Like That...(2021)
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all shows

Ratched(2020)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all shows
The Lavender Scare (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

Stray Dolls(2019)
Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films
The Parting Glass(2018)
Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all films
Maybe a Love Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

That's Harassment (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
My Letter to the World(2017)
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Killing Reagan(2016)
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
A Quiet Passion(2016)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
The Adderall Diaries(2015)
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films
James White(2015)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Rasheeda Speaking (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

Stockholm, Pennsylvania(2015)
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films
The Affair(2014)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all shows
5 Flights Up(2014)
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
Broad City(2014)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows
Alpha House(2013)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all shows
Hannibal(2013)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
Girl Most Likely(2012)
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all films
World Without End (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

Too Big to Fail(2011)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Rampart(2011)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
The Big C(2010)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
Sex and the City 2(2010)
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Lymelife(2008)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Sex and the City(2008)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
The Babysitters(2007)
Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all films
3 lbs (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)

30 Rock(2006)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows
Me, Eloise(2006)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all shows
Little Manhattan(2005)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
One Last Thing...(2005)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)

Warm Springs(2005)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
House(2004)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all shows
Tanner on Tanner (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
The Shakespeare Sessions (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

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

Mark Twain(2001)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Mark Twain (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all shows
Papa's Angels (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)

Sex and the Matrix (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
The Out-of-Towners(1999)
Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films
Sex and the City(1998)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all shows
Marvin's Room(1996)
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films
Early Edition (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

Nash Bridges(1996)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all showsThe 'M' Word (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

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

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

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

The Outer Limits(1995)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all shows
Touched by an Angel(1994)
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all shows
ER(1994)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
Baby's Day Out(1994)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
Addams Family Values(1993)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
The Pelican Brief(1993)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
Kiss, Kiss, Dahlings (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

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

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

The Love She Sought(1990)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Law & Order(1990)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all shows
Women and Wallace (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1990)

Let It Ride(1989)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all filmsGideon Oliver (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)

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

Tanner '88 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all shows
O.C. and Stiggs(1985)
Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films
The Manhattan Project(1986)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
The Equalizer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)

Murder, She Wrote(1984)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all shows
Amadeus(1984)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
I Am the Cheese (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1983)

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

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

Tattoo(1981)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films
Prince of the City(1981)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1981)

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

Little Darlings(1980)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films
Ratched (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

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

Biggest box office
Sex and the City (2008)

Highest rated
Mark Twain (2001)

Most popular right now
Sex and the City (1998)
Film career
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.
- 1980Screen debut· Little Darlings
- 1998Primetime Emmy win· Sex and the City
- 2005Primetime Emmy nomination· Warm Springs
- 2016First top-billed film· A Quiet Passion
- 2016Career best· A Quiet Passion
- 2020Golden Globe nomination· Ratched
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- 2021Career best· And Just Like That…
Billing
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.
- Screen Actors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
- Golden Globe, nominated · Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Supporting Role
- Independent Spirit Award, nominated · Best Supporting Female
- Grammy Award, won · Best Spoken Word Album
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
- Screen Actors Guild Award, won · Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble 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
- 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.
- 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.
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
- Michael Patrick KingShared titles: And Just Like That... The Documentary (2022), Sex and the City 2 (2010), Sex and the City (2008)See all 3 shared titles with Michael Patrick King

- Joseph SargentShared titles: Warm Springs (2005), The Love She Sought (1990)See all 2 shared titles with Joseph Sargent

Actors
- Sarah Jessica ParkerShared titles: And Just Like That... The Documentary (2022), And Just Like That... (2021), Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's (2013), Sex and the City 2 (2010), Sex and the City (2008), Sex and the City (1998), My Body, My Child (1982)See all 7 shared titles with Sarah Jessica Parker

- Kristin DavisShared titles: And Just Like That... The Documentary (2022), And Just Like That... (2021), Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's (2013), Sex and the City 2 (2010), Sex and the City (2008), Sex and the City (1998)See all 6 shared titles with Kristin Davis

- Evan HandlerShared titles: And Just Like That... (2021), Sex and the City 2 (2010), Sex and the City (2008), Sex and the City (1998)See all 4 shared titles with Evan Handler

- Kim CattrallShared titles: Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's (2013), Sex and the City 2 (2010), Sex and the City (2008), Sex and the City (1998)See all 4 shared titles with Kim Cattrall

Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Michael BerenbaumShared titles: Sex and the City 2 (2010), Sex and the City (2008), One Last Thing... (2005)See all 3 shared titles with Michael Berenbaum

- Aaron ZigmanShared titles: Sex and the City 2 (2010), Sex and the City (2008)See all 2 shared titles with Aaron Zigman

- John ThomasShared titles: Sex and the City 2 (2010), Sex and the City (2008)See all 2 shared titles with John Thomas

- Chad FischerShared titles: The Babysitters (2007), Little Manhattan (2005)See all 2 shared titles with Chad Fischer

Producers
- Andrea GibsonShared titles: My Letter to the World (2017), A Quiet Passion (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Andrea Gibson
- Mary MacLeodShared titles: My Letter to the World (2017), A Quiet Passion (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Mary MacLeod
- Roy BoulterShared titles: My Letter to the World (2017), A Quiet Passion (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Roy Boulter
- Sol PapadopoulosShared titles: My Letter to the World (2017), A Quiet Passion (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Sol Papadopoulos







