
Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon is an American actress, activist, and theater director. Nixon is best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes in the iconic series Sex and the City, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She has also portrayed Eleanor Roosevelt in Warm Springs, Michele Davis in Too Big to Fail, and appeared in The Gilded Age and And Just Like That…. Nixon further won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
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- Cannonball with Wesley Morris The Grit and Glamour of New York Movies

A few weeks ago, “Cannonball” hosted its first live show at the 2026 Tribeca Festival.Wesley Morris thought to himself, “What could we talk about in front of a bunch of New Yorkers that would be interesting to them?” And then the answer came to him: New York movies! Movies about New York City.Joining him for the conversation is Cynthia Nixon, one of our great New Yorkers. She’s made iconic work in the city (like, of course, “Sex and the City”) and is a fierce advocate for the TV and film industry to continue making work here. Also, no big deal, she ran for governor in 2018.Together, Wesley and Cynthia chat about three N.Y.C. movies of their choice: “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “The Taking of Pelham 123" and “The Wiz.”Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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- US
- BORN
- April 9, 1966