Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Ellen Nixonis an American actress. She is known for her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series, Sex and the City, for which 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 Cityand Sex and the City 2. Other film appearances include: Amadeus, The Pelican Brief, Little Manhattan, 5 Flights Up, James White, and playing Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth9 April 1966
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
My mother had me on four times [on TV show To Tell The Truth.]. Four times. Only once as a contestant, but they had a bunch of kids on at the beginning [of some shows], playing with toys or things like that.
My mother worked on a whole bunch of those; she worked on What's My Line?, I've Got A Secret, Play Your Hunch... In my memory, she worked on To Tell The Truth. So it was her job to brief the imposters.
Every Thursday or something, my mother would shoot it at NBC Studios at Rockefeller Center. And sometimes she would have me there when Morris The Cat was on, and Lassie was on.
[My mother] was taking me to Shakespeare In The Park when I was like 6. There was just a lot of theater-going and a lot of movie-going and a lot of discussion about it afterwards, dissecting it and stuff.
I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.
[My mother] worked in the Seagram's Building; it's kind of an iconic '60s skyscraper on a floor so high that your ears popped. And all the women - the whole thing was so very Mad Men, very glamorous.
When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and then Joan Didion just eviscerated her in the most - possibly not inaccurate - but in the most devastating way.
They sent me the script and I was really charmed by it and I signed on.
I was actually in the midst of breakfast, and Angela Tarantino, who does publicity at HBO, called me -- very excited, shrieking into the phone. It was very nice. ... 'Sex and the City' won last year, which was so exciting, but Sarah and I weren't out there because we are doing plays in New York. So you can be sure we will be there this year with bells on this time around.
All of the girls on the show are in total denial that this is ending. We're not going to know what to do with ourselves.
Miranda: I just got Brady to sleep. Dr. Leeds: Now, do you sing to him? Miranda: Only if he's been bad.
It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.
We didn't know each other before [ the Killing Reagan], but I just knew we would love each other [with Tim Matheson].
I have low self-esteem, but I express it the healthy way... by eating a box of Double-Stuff Oreos.