“confer with the Working Families Party and we will make the decision we think is best”
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Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon is an American actress, activist, and theatre director. She has received various accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Grammy Award, making her one of the few actresses to have won three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT). She has also been nominated for six Golden Globe Awards. Nixon is best known for her portrayal of Miranda Hobb…
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entertainment · American actress and politician · television actor · film actor · actor · stage actor · poet · slam poet · also Cynthia Nixon, Nixon
Born 9 April 1966 · Q228725
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2026· 3 entries
The Guardian: Democratic socialist Angie Nixon clinches surprise primary win in Florida US Senate race
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2025· 1 entry
Campaign: 2025 New York City mayoral election.
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2023· 1 entry
Nixon signed an open letter expressing "serious concerns about editorial bias" in reporting by The New York Times on transgender people
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2018· 9 entries
The Working Families Party removed Nixon's name from their ticket after deciding to endorse Cuomo and Hochul, thus ensuring that Nixon would not appear on the general election ballot
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During a campaign event in New York City, Nixon referred to the U
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Nixon and other potential Democratic challengers to Cuomo were eliminated from the Democratic party endorsement at the state Democratic Convention after failing to meet the 25% state delegate threshold needed to appear o
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Claimed: “Four years after Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised universal pre-K, "79 percent of 4 year olds outside New York City lack full day pre-K."” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: ““Since taking office, Andrew Cuomo has given massive tax breaks to corporations and the super rich.”” — rated Mostly False by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: ““In one day of fundraising I received more small donor (contributions) than Andrew Cuomo received in seven years.”” — rated True by PolitiFact.
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Nixon announced her campaign for governor of New York as a challenger to Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo
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Campaign: 2018 New York gubernatorial election.
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Nixon ran for governor of New York as part of the Working Families Party challenging Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo
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2015· 1 entry
Nixon appeared in two films which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival: Stockholm, Pennsylvania and James White
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2012· 3 entries
With Nixon wearing a custom-made, pale green dress by Carolina Herrera
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Nixon also 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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Nixon starred as Professor Vivian Bearing in the Broadway debut of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize–winning play Wit
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2009· 2 entries
Nixon won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album along with Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood for the album An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore)
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They became engaged in April 2009, and married in New York City on May 27, 2012, with Nixon wearing a custom-made, pale green dress by Carolina Herrera.
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2008· 5 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2008).
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The Vito Russo Award presented by the GLAAD Media Awards in 2010, the Yale University Artist for Equality award in 2013 and the Faith Hubley Memorial Award during the Provincetown International Film Festival in 2016
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And a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for An Inconvenient Truth in 2009
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Revived her role as Miranda Hobbes in the Sex and the City feature film, directed by HBO executive producer Michael Patrick King and co-starring the cast of the original series
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Won an Emmy for her guest appearance in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, portraying a woman pretending to have dissociative identity disorder
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2007· 1 entry
Regarding her sexual orientation, Nixon remarked in 2007: "I don't really feel I've changed.
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2006· 4 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (2006).
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Appeared in David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Rabbit Hole in a Manhattan Theatre Club production, and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Play)
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“ICE is a terrorist organization, and it's egomaniacal leader is Donald Trump.”
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“ICE has strayed so far from its mission. It's supposed to be here to keep Americans safe, but what it's turned into is frankly a terrorist organization of its own that is terrorizing people that are coming to this country.”
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2005· 1 entry
As a mother who undergoes a tricky procedure to lessen the effects of a debilitating stroke
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Sex and the City (2004).
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Nixon began dating education activist Christine Marinoni
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2002· 1 entry
Also acted in the indie comedy Igby Goes Down, and her turn in the theatrical production of Clare Boothe Luce's play The Women was captured for PBS' Stage on Screen series
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Lucy Award (1999).
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1985· 1 entry
Appeared alongside Jeff Daniels in Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky at Second Stage Theatre
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1984· 1 entry
While a freshman at Barnard College, Nixon made theatrical history by simultaneously appearing in two hit Broadway plays directed by Mike Nichols
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Theatre World Award (1981).
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1966· 1 entry
Born 1966-04-09.
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