Cynthia Ellen Nixon was born on April 9,1966 and is an American actress, activist, and theater director.
51 Facts About Cynthia Nixon
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On March 19,2018, Cynthia Nixon announced her campaign for Governor of New York as a challenger to Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo.
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Cynthia Nixon's platform focused on income inequality, renewable energy, establishing universal health care, stopping mass incarceration in the United States, and protecting undocumented children from deportation.
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Cynthia Nixon was nominated as the gubernatorial candidate for the Working Families Party; the party threw its support to Cuomo after Cynthia Nixon lost in the Democratic primary.
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Cynthia Nixon has been an advocate for LGBT rights in the United States, particularly the right of same-sex marriage.
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Cynthia Nixon met her wife at a 2002 gay rights rally, and announced her engagement at a rally for New York same-sex marriage in 2009.
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Cynthia Nixon received the Yale University Artist for Equality award in 2013 and a Visibility Award from the Human Rights Campaign in 2018.
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Cynthia Nixon was born in Manhattan, the only child of Walter Elmer Cynthia Nixon Jr.
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Cynthia Nixon's grandparents were Adolph Knoll, Etta Elizabeth Williams, Walter E Nixon, and Grace Truman McCormack.
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Cynthia Nixon made her first television appearance on the show at 9 as one of the "impostors", pretending to be a junior horse riding champion.
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Cynthia Nixon was an actress all through her years at Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School, often taking time away from school to perform in film and on stage.
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Cynthia Nixon was a student in the Semester at Sea Program in the Spring of 1986.
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Cynthia Nixon began acting at 12 as the object of a wealthy schoolmate's crush in The Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid, a 1979 ABC Afterschool Special.
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Cynthia Nixon made her feature debut co-starring with Kristy McNichol and Tatum O'Neal in Little Darlings.
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Cynthia Nixon made her Broadway debut as Dinah Lord in a 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story.
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In 1984, while a freshman at Barnard College, Cynthia Nixon made theatrical history by simultaneously appearing in two hit Broadway plays directed by Mike Nichols.
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Cynthia Nixon landed her first major supporting role in a movie as an intelligent teenager who aids her boyfriend in building a nuclear bomb in Marshall Brickman's The Manhattan Project.
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Cynthia Nixon was part of the cast of the NBC miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan starring Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey, and portrayed the daughter of a presidential candidate in Tanner '88, Robert Altman's political satire for HBO.
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Cynthia Nixon reprised the role for the 2004 sequel, Tanner on Tanner.
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On stage, Cynthia Nixon portrayed Juliet in a 1988 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet, and acted in the workshop production of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, playing several characters after it came to Broadway in 1989.
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Cynthia Nixon played the role of an agoraphobic woman in a February 1993 episode of Murder, Cynthia Nixon Wrote, titled "Threshold of Fear".
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Cynthia Nixon succeeded Marcia Gay Harden as Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner's Angels in America, received a Tony nomination for her performance in Indiscretions, her sixth Broadway show, and, although she originally lost the part to another actress, eventually took over the role of Lala Levy in the Tony-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo.
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Cynthia Nixon was a founding member of the Off-Broadway theatrical troupe Drama Dept.
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Cynthia Nixon had supporting roles in Addams Family Values, Baby's Day Out, Marvin's Room, and The Out-of-Towners.
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Cynthia Nixon received three Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, winning the award in 2004, for the show's final season.
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The immense popularity of the series led Cynthia Nixon to enjoy her first leading role in a feature, playing a video artist who falls in love, despite her best efforts to avoid commitment, with a bisexual actor who just happens to be dating a gay man in Advice from a Caterpillar, as well as starring opposite Scott Bakula in the holiday television movie Papa's Angels.
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Post-Sex and the City, Cynthia Nixon made a guest appearance on ER in 2005, as a mother who undergoes a tricky procedure to lessen the effects of a debilitating stroke.
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Cynthia Nixon followed up with a turn as Eleanor Roosevelt for HBO's Warm Springs, which chronicled Franklin Delano Roosevelt's quest for a miracle cure for his polio.
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Cynthia Nixon earned an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance.
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In 2009, Cynthia Nixon won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album along with Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood for the album An Inconvenient Truth.
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In March 2010, Cynthia Nixon received the Vito Russo Award at the GLAAD Media Awards.
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Cynthia Nixon's character is "Amanda Reese, the high-strung and larger-than-life director behind a problem-plagued Broadway version of Icarus," loosely modeled after Spider-Man director Julie Taymor.
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Cynthia Nixon received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play for the performance.
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In 2012, Cynthia Nixon starred as Petranilla in the TV miniseries of Ken Follett's World Without End broadcast on the ReelzChannel, alongside Ben Chaplin, Peter Firth, Charlotte Riley, and Miranda Richardson.
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In 2015, Cynthia Nixon appeared in two films which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival: Stockholm, Pennsylvania and James White.
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Cynthia Nixon played the leading role of reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson in the biographical film A Quiet Passion directed and written by Terence Davies.
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Cynthia Nixon alternated the roles of Regina and Birdie with Laura Linney, winning her second Tony Award for her performance as Birdie.
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Cynthia Nixon is a spokesperson for New York's Alliance for Quality Education, a public education fairness advocacy organization.
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Cynthia Nixon has a history of advocacy in support of women's health.
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Cynthia Nixon endorsed Bill de Blasio in the 2013 New York City mayoral election, who went on to win the Democratic nomination and the general election.
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Cynthia Nixon campaigned actively for de Blasio, whom she had worked with since the early 2000s when campaigning against Michael Bloomberg's education policies.
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In 2018, it was reported that Cynthia Nixon was preparing a progressive challenge to the incumbent governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo.
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Cynthia Nixon was expected to secure the nomination of the Working Families Party of New York during its annual convention in April 2018, thus guaranteeing her a spot on the general election ballot.
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Cynthia Nixon stated that in the event that she did not secure the Democratic nomination, she would "confer with the Working Families Party and we will make the decision we think is best".
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In contrast to Cuomo, Cynthia Nixon supported the legalization of marijuana.
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Cynthia Nixon filed a petition with 65,000 signatures, more than four times the 15,000 required, to force a primary election.
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From 1988 to 2003, Cynthia Nixon was in a relationship with schoolteacher Danny Mozes.
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In June 2018, Cynthia Nixon revealed that her older child is transgender.
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In October 2006, Cynthia Nixon was diagnosed with breast cancer during a routine mammography.
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Cynthia Nixon initially decided not to go public with her illness because she feared it might hurt her career, but in April 2008, she announced her battle with the disease in an interview with Good Morning America.
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Cynthia Nixon convinced the head of NBC to air her breast cancer special in a prime time program, and became an Ambassador for Susan G Komen for the Cure.