Cynthia Nixon

Nixon was born in Manhattan, the only child of Walter Elmer Nixon Jr., a radio journalist from Harlingen, Texas,{{cite journal|last=Tallmer|first=Jerry|title=Cynthia Nixon brings focus to "Distracted"|journal=The Villager|date=March 18–24, 2009|volume=78|issue=41|url=http://thevillager.com/villager_307/cynthianixon.html|access-date=February 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304193810/http://thevillager.com/villager_307/cynthianixon.html|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}Stated on Who Do You Think You Are? Season 5 Episode 1, July 23, 2014{{cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/494919/Shock-as-Sex-And-The-City-star-discovers-axe-murderer-in-the-family|title=Sex And The City actress discovers AXE MURDERER in the family|first=Mike|last=Parker|date=3 August 2014|website=express.co.uk|access-date=20 April 2018|archive-date=April 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180420135803/https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/494919/Shock-as-Sex-And-The-City-star-discovers-axe-murderer-in-the-family|url-status=live}} and Anne Elizabeth (née Knoll),{{cite web|last=Bolger|first=Timothy|url=http://www.longislandpress.com/2013/10/01/cynthia-nixon-rings-in-breast-cancer-awareness-month-on-li|title=Sex and The City Star Rings in Breast Cancer Awareness Month on Long Island|website=Longislandpress.com|access-date=September 10, 2016|date=October 2013|archive-date=February 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220123714/https://www.longislandpress.com/2013/10/01/cynthia-nixon-rings-in-breast-cancer-awareness-month-on-li/|url-status=live}} an actress originally from Chicago.{{cite web |url=https://www.glamour.com/story/cynthia-nixon-new-york-governor-interview |title=Cynthia Nixon: 'I Have a Right to Be Here' |last=Harman |first=Justine |date=23 March 2018 |website=glamour.com |access-date=18 April 2018 |archive-date=April 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419120517/https://www.glamour.com/story/cynthia-nixon-new-york-governor-interview |url-status=live }} She credits her mother with "indoctrinating" her into theatre.{{Citation|title=CYNTHIA NIXON on being a bankable actress & the age of consent in New York|date=April 2, 2015|url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Q3fCrzhYQnXzNonbqZwFR|language=en|access-date=2019-11-14|archive-date=November 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114195943/https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Q3fCrzhYQnXzNonbqZwFR|url-status=live}} She is of English and German descent.{{cite web|last1=Lee|first1=Luaine|title=Cynthia Nixon has another first-lady role: Nancy Reagan|url=http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/television/2016/10/15/killing-reagan-cynthia-nixon/92085668|website=Detroit Free Press|publisher=USA Today|access-date=January 25, 2017|archive-date=February 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202070149/http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/television/2016/10/15/killing-reagan-cynthia-nixon/92085668/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|first=Kevin|last=Sessums|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/24/cynthia-nixon-discusses-her-role-in-wit-her-cancer-bisexuality-and-her-kids.html|title=Cynthia Nixon on Bisexuality & Her New Role in 'Wit'|newspaper=The Daily Beast|date=January 24, 2012|access-date=March 8, 2017|archive-date=July 11, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711172504/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/24/cynthia-nixon-discusses-her-role-in-wit-her-cancer-bisexuality-and-her-kids.html|url-status=live}} Her grandparents were Adolph Knoll, Etta Elizabeth Williams, Walter E. Nixon, and Grace Truman McCormack.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HohD8NVW3M| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211102/_HohD8NVW3M| archive-date=2021-11-02 | url-status=live|title=Cynthia Nixon Isn't Just Running To Make A Point|author=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert|date=April 19, 2018|access-date=April 20, 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|url=https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2014/07/25/who-do-you-think-you-are-recap-mapping-cynthia-nixons-ancestor/|title=Who Do You Think You Are? Recap: Mapping Cynthia Nixon's Ancestor – Ancestry Blog|website=blogs.ancestry.com|date=July 25, 2014 |access-date=April 20, 2018|archive-date=April 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180420202833/https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2014/07/25/who-do-you-think-you-are-recap-mapping-cynthia-nixons-ancestor/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.millercountymuseum.org/homesteads/williams.html|title=Ben & Cynthia Dial Williams Family – Miller County Museum & Historical Society|website=millercountymuseum.org|access-date=April 20, 2018|archive-date=June 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630002550/http://www.millercountymuseum.org/homesteads/williams.html|url-status=live}} Nixon's parents divorced when she was six years old.{{cite news|last1=Witchel|first1=Alex|title=Life After 'Sex'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/cynthia-nixon-wit.html|website=The New York Times|date=January 19, 2012 |access-date=January 25, 2017|archive-date=January 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116233612/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/cynthia-nixon-wit.html|url-status=live}} According to Nixon, her father was often unemployed and her mother was the household's main breadwinner: Nixon's mother worked on the game show To Tell the Truth, coaching the "impostors" who claimed to be the person described by the host.

Nixon was an actress all through her years at Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School (class of 1984), often taking time away from school to perform in film and on stage.{{cite news|title=Cynthia Nixon Addresses Hunter College High School Graduates|url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/news/newsreleases/2004/nixon.shtml|access-date=February 25, 2014|newspaper=Hunter College High School|date=June 24, 2004|archive-date=February 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228205323/http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/news/newsreleases/2004/nixon.shtml|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Cynthia Nixon|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/person/cynthia-nixon/biography.html|work=Yahoo! Movies|publisher=Yahoo!|access-date=February 25, 2014|archive-date=March 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308191337/https://movies.yahoo.com/person/cynthia-nixon/biography.html|url-status=live}} Nixon also acted in order to pay her way through Barnard College, where she received a B.A.{{cite news|last1=Witchel|first1=Alex|title=Life After 'Sex'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/cynthia-nixon-wit.html|website=The New York Times|date=January 19, 2012 |access-date=March 18, 2018|archive-date=March 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320172041/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/cynthia-nixon-wit.html|url-status=live}} in English Literature.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/cynthia-nixon|title=Cynthia Nixon {{!}} HuffPost|website=www.huffingtonpost.com|language=en|access-date=2018-08-20}} Nixon was also a student in the Semester at Sea Program in the Spring of 1986.{{cite web |url=https://www.semesteratsea.org/get-involved/prominent-alumni-lecturers/ |title=Prominent Alumni & Lecturers |website=Semester at Sea |publisher=Institute for Shipboard Education, Colorado State University |location=Ft. Collins, CO |access-date=February 25, 2020 |archive-date=February 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225153353/https://www.semesteratsea.org/get-involved/prominent-alumni-lecturers/ |url-status=live }}

Nixon's first onscreen appearance (at 8 years old) was as an imposter on To Tell the Truth, where her mother worked, pretending to be a junior horse riding champion.{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98WKtpMos0w | title=To Tell the Truth (January 17, 1974 | #73_1754) | website=YouTube }}{{cite web |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/cynthia-nixons-emily-thing |title=Cynthia Nixon's "Emily Thing" |last=Syme |first=Rachel |date=15 April 2017 |website=newyorker.com |access-date=18 April 2018 |archive-date=April 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419053223/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/cynthia-nixons-emily-thing |url-status=live }}{{cite news|last=Witchel|first=Alex|title=Life After 'Sex'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/cynthia-nixon-wit.html|access-date=March 13, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 19, 2012|archive-date=November 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114103930/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/cynthia-nixon-wit.html|url-status=live}} She 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.{{cite journal|last1=Ambinder|first1=Evan|title=The Cynthia Chronicles: BC's very own Broadway star|journal=Columbia Daily Spectator|date=April 19, 1990|volume=CXIV|issue=116|page=5|url=http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19900419-01.1.5&srpos=&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-Cynthia+nixon-----#|access-date=June 10, 2014|archive-date=July 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714204155/http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19900419-01.1.5&srpos=&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-Cynthia+nixon-----|url-status=live}} She made her feature debut co-starring with Kristy McNichol and Tatum O'Neal in Little Darlings (1980). She made her Broadway debut as Dinah Lord in a 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story. Alternating between film, TV, and stage, she did projects like the 1982 ABC movie My Body, My Child, the features Prince of the City (1981) and I Am the Cheese (1983), and the 1982 Off-Broadway productions of John Guare's Lydie Breeze.

In 1984, while a freshman at Barnard College, Nixon made theatrical history by simultaneously appearing in two hit Broadway plays directed by Mike Nichols. They were The Real Thing, where she played the daughter of Jeremy Irons and Christine Baranski; and Hurlyburly, where she played a young woman who encounters sleazy Hollywood executives.{{cite news|last=Galanes|first=Philip|title=Allison Williams and Cynthia Nixon Talk About 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/fashion/Allison-Williams-Cynthia-Nixon-Girls-Sex-and-the-City.html|access-date=March 13, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 17, 2014|archive-date=January 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140128174411/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/fashion/Allison-Williams-Cynthia-Nixon-Girls-Sex-and-the-City.html|url-status=live}} The two theaters were just two blocks apart and Nixon's roles were both short, so she could run from one to the other. Onscreen, she played the role of Salieri's maid/spy, Lorl, in Amadeus (1984). In 1985, she appeared alongside Jeff Daniels in Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky at Second Stage Theatre.{{cite news|last1=Rich|first1=Frank|author-link1=Frank Rich|title=Theater – 'Lemon Sky' by Lanford Wilson|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/12/theater/theater-lemon-sky-by-lanford-wilson.html|access-date=June 10, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=December 12, 1985|archive-date=July 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716122638/http://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/12/theater/theater-lemon-sky-by-lanford-wilson.html|url-status=live}}

She landed her first major supporting role in a movie as an intelligent teenager who aids her boyfriend (Christopher Collet) in building a nuclear bomb in Marshall Brickman's The Manhattan Project (1986).{{cite news|last=Considine|first=Bob|title='Sex' star Cynthia Nixon on her cancer, girlfriend|url=http://www.today.com/id/24878731|access-date=March 13, 2014|newspaper=Today.com|date=May 30, 2008|archive-date=March 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313071448/http://www.today.com/id/24878731|url-status=live}} Nixon was part of the cast of the NBC miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan (NBC, 1988) starring Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey, and portrayed the daughter of a presidential candidate (Michael Murphy) in Tanner '88 (1988), Robert Altman's political satire for HBO. She reprised the role for the 2004 sequel, Tanner on Tanner.

On stage, Nixon portrayed Juliet in a 1988 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet,{{cite news|last=Rich|first=Frank|title=Review/Theater; 'Romeo and Juliet' in the Shakespeare Marathon|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/25/theater/review-theater-romeo-and-juliet-in-the-shakespeare-marathon.html|access-date=March 13, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 25, 1988|archive-date=March 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326212743/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/25/theater/review-theater-romeo-and-juliet-in-the-shakespeare-marathon.html|url-status=live}} and acted in the workshop production of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles,{{cite news|last=Prose|first=Francine|title=What Wendy Wasserstein Wrought|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/books/review/wendy-and-the-lost-boys-by-julie-salamon-book-review.html|access-date=March 13, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 26, 2011|archive-date=April 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421074031/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/books/review/wendy-and-the-lost-boys-by-julie-salamon-book-review.html|url-status=live}} playing several characters after it came to Broadway in 1989. She was the guest star in the second episode of the long running NBC television series Law & Order. She played the role of an agoraphobic woman in a February 1993 episode of Murder, She Wrote, titled "Threshold of Fear".

Nixon succeeded Marcia Gay Harden as Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner's Angels in America (1994),{{cite news|last=Weber|first=Bruce|title=On Stage, and Off|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/08/theater/on-stage-and-off.html|access-date=March 13, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 8, 1994|archive-date=March 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326212820/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/08/theater/on-stage-and-off.html|url-status=live}} received a Tony nomination for her performance in Indiscretions (Les Parents Terribles) (1996), her sixth Broadway show,{{cite news|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/tony-winner-cynthia-nixon-marries-christine-marinoni-com-194047|title=Tony Winner Cynthia Nixon Marries Christine Marinoni|last=Gioia|first=Michael|date=May 29, 2012|newspaper=Playbill|access-date=March 13, 2014|archive-date=December 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227020557/http://www.playbill.com/article/tony-winner-cynthia-nixon-marries-christine-marinoni-com-194047|url-status=live}} 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 (1997).

Nixon was a founding member of the Off-Broadway theatrical troupe Drama Dept.,{{cite web|title=Actress Cynthia Nixon|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1148746|website=NPR|access-date=June 10, 2014|date=August 22, 2002|archive-date=July 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714224327/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1148746|url-status=live}} which included Sarah Jessica Parker, Dylan Baker, John Cameron Mitchell and Billy Crudup among its actors, appearing in the group's productions of Kingdom on Earth (1996), June Moon and As Bees in Honey Drown (both 1997), Hope is the Thing with Feathers (1998), and The Country Club (1999). She had supporting roles in Addams Family Values (1993), Baby's Day Out (1994), Marvin's Room (1996), and The Out-of-Towners (1999).

She was one of the four regulars on HBO's comedy Sex and the City (1998–2004), as the lawyer Miranda Hobbes.{{Cite web |last=Piña |first=Christy |date=2023-06-17 |title=Cynthia Nixon Says 'And Just Like That' "Felt Very Different" Without Kim Cattrall: "You're Not Walking Around on Eggshells" |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/cynthia-nixon-walked-on-eggshells-kim-cattrall-sex-and-the-city-1235518029/ |access-date=2023-06-17 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}} Nixon received three Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (2002, 2003, 2004), winning the award in 2004, for the show's final season.{{cite web|title=Cynthia Nixon|url=http://www.emmys.com/bios/cynthia-nixon|work=Emmy Awards|publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|access-date=February 25, 2014|archive-date=March 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302010832/http://www.emmys.com/bios/cynthia-nixon|url-status=live}}

Nixon next had 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 (her best friend) in Advice from a Caterpillar (2000), as well as starring opposite Scott Bakula in the holiday television movie Papa's Angels (2000). In 2002, she 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.

Post-Sex and the City, 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. She followed up with a turn as Eleanor Roosevelt for HBO's Warm Springs (2005), which chronicled Franklin Delano Roosevelt's quest for a miracle cure for his polio. Nixon earned an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance. In December 2005, she appeared in the Fox TV series House in the episode "Deception", as a patient who suffers a seizure.

In 2006, she appeared in David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Rabbit Hole in a Manhattan Theatre Club production,{{cite news|last=Dominus|first=Susan|title=A Career After 'Sex,' but Still in the City|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/theater/newsandfeatures/22domi.html|access-date=February 25, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 22, 2006|archive-date=November 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126042027/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/theater/newsandfeatures/22domi.html|url-status=live}} and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Play).{{cite web | title=Just the Facts: List of 2006 Tony Award Winners and Nominees | website=Playbill | date=12 June 2006 | url=https://playbill.com/article/just-the-facts-list-of-2006-tony-award-winners-and-nominees-com-133125 | access-date=23 July 2024}} In 2008, she 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.{{cite news|last1=Freeman|first1=Hadley|title=Sex and the City movie: will the wait be worth it?|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/12/news.usa|access-date=June 10, 2014|work=The Guardian|date=May 12, 2008|archive-date=July 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714231946/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/12/news.usa|url-status=live}} Also in 2008, she 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. In 2009, 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).{{cite news|title=Cynthia Nixon's Grammy win puts her on third base of awards grand slam|url=http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2009/02/grammys-news-1.html|access-date=June 10, 2014|work=Los Angeles Times|date=February 9, 2009|archive-date=July 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715040331/http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2009/02/grammys-news-1.html|url-status=live}}

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In March 2010, Nixon received the Vito Russo Award at the GLAAD Media Awards. The award is presented to an openly LGBTQ media professional "who has made a significant difference in promoting equality for the LGBT community".{{fact|date=November 2023}} It was announced in June 2010 that Nixon would appear in four episodes of the Showtime series The Big C.{{cite news|last=Stanhope|first=Kate|title=Cynthia Nixon to Take on The Big C with Four-Episode Arc|url=https://www.tvguide.com/News/Cynthia-Nixon-BigC-1019860.aspx|access-date=March 13, 2014|newspaper=TV Guide|date=June 23, 2010|archive-date=October 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021211035/http://www.tvguide.com/news/cynthia-nixon-bigc-1019860.aspx|url-status=live}} Nixon appeared in a Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode based on the problems surrounding the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Her 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.{{cite web|last=Ausiello|first=Michael|title=Law & Order: CI Exclusive: Cynthia Nixon Set For Episode Inspired by Spider-Man Musical|work=TVLine |url=http://www.tvline.com/2011/04/law-order-ci-exclusive-cynthia-nixon-set-for-episode-inspired-by-spider-man-musical/|publisher=tvline.com|access-date=April 30, 2001|archive-date=April 30, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430232701/http://www.tvline.com/2011/04/law-order-ci-exclusive-cynthia-nixon-set-for-episode-inspired-by-spider-man-musical/|url-status=live}}

In 2012, Nixon starred as Professor Vivian Bearing in the Broadway debut of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize–winning play Wit. Produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club, the play opened January 26, 2012 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.{{cite news|last1=Brantley|first1=Ben|title=Artifice as Armor in a Duel With Death: Cynthia Nixon in 'Wit,' at Manhattan Theater Club|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/theater/reviews/cynthia-nixon-in-wit-at-manhattan-theater-club.html|access-date=June 10, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=January 26, 2012|archive-date=July 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703082313/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/theater/reviews/cynthia-nixon-in-wit-at-manhattan-theater-club.html|url-status=live}} Nixon received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play for the performance.{{cite news|last1=Eggenberger|first1=Nicole|title=Tony Awards 2012: Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Nixon Nominated|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/tony-awards-2012-andrew-garfield-cynthia-nixon-nominated-201215|access-date=June 10, 2014|work=Us Weekly|date=May 1, 2012|archive-date=July 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714220923/http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/tony-awards-2012-andrew-garfield-cynthia-nixon-nominated-201215|url-status=live}} In 2012, 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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In 2015, Nixon appeared in two films which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival: Stockholm, Pennsylvania and James White. She received critical acclaim for both performances, especially for the latter, which some{{whom|date=November 2023}} considered as "Oscar-worthy".{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/article/sundance-review-christopher-abbott-and-cynthia-nixon-triumph-in-devastating-james-white-20150123|title=Sundance Review: Christopher Abbott and Cynthia Nixon Tri – Indiewire|first=Eric|last=Kohn|date=January 24, 2015|work=Indiewire|access-date=June 8, 2015|archive-date=July 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703123408/http://www.indiewire.com/article/sundance-review-christopher-abbott-and-cynthia-nixon-triumph-in-devastating-james-white-20150123|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/news/sundance-cynthia-nixon-christopher-abbott-on-love-death-and-james-white-1201412492|title=Sundance: Cynthia Nixon, Christopher Abbott on Love, Death and 'James White'|first=Brent|last=Lang|work=Variety|access-date=June 8, 2015|date=January 23, 2015|archive-date=May 29, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529082435/http://variety.com/2015/film/news/sundance-cynthia-nixon-christopher-abbott-on-love-death-and-james-white-1201412492/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/sundance-film-review-stockholm-pennsylvania-1201413718/|title='Stockholm, Pennsylvania' Review: A Claustrophobic Kidnapping Tale|first=Peter|last=Debruge|work=Variety|access-date=June 8, 2015|date=January 24, 2015|archive-date=December 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215163738/http://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/sundance-film-review-stockholm-pennsylvania-1201413718/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/sundance-review-stockholm-pennsylvania-starring-saoirse-ronan-cynthia-nixon-20150124|title=Sundance Review: 'Stockholm, Pennsylvania' Starring Saoir – The Playlist|first=Rodrigo|last=Perez|date=January 24, 2015|work=The Playlist|access-date=June 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703192649/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/sundance-review-stockholm-pennsylvania-starring-saoirse-ronan-cynthia-nixon-20150124|archive-date=July 3, 2015|url-status=dead}}

Nixon played the leading role of reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson in the biographical film A Quiet Passion directed and written by Terence Davies.{{cite web|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/terence-davies-long-awaited-emily-dickinson-biopic-is-really-happening-20150505|title=Terence Davies' Long-Awaited Emily Dickinson Biopic Is Re – Thompson on Hollywood|first=Ryan|last=Lattanzio|date=May 5, 2015|work=Thompson on Hollywood|access-date=June 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708111124/http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/terence-davies-long-awaited-emily-dickinson-biopic-is-really-happening-20150505|archive-date=July 8, 2015|url-status=dead}} The film premiered in February 2016 at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. In May 2016, it was announced that Nixon would play Nancy Reagan in the upcoming television film adaptation of Killing Reagan.{{cite web|url=https://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/06/killing-reagan-tim-matheson-cynthia-nixon|title=Tim Matheson and Cynthia Nixon join Killing Reagan as Ronald and Nancy|publisher=Entertainment Weekly.com|access-date=May 6, 2016|date=May 6, 2016|archive-date=May 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509151634/http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/06/killing-reagan-tim-matheson-cynthia-nixon|url-status=live}} The film aired in October 2016.

Nixon appeared on Broadway in the revival of The Little Foxes, officially opening on April 19, 2017, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. She alternated the roles of Regina and Birdie with Laura Linney, winning her second Tony Award for her performance as Birdie.Clement, Olivia. [http://www.playbill.com/article/broadways-the-little-foxes-opens-april-19 "Broadway's 'The Little Foxes' Opens April 19"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420131900/http://www.playbill.com/article/broadways-the-little-foxes-opens-april-19 |date=April 20, 2017 }} Playbill, April 19, 2017

In January 2019, it was announced that Nixon will star in the upcoming Netflix drama series Ratched.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/01/ratched-sharon-stone-cynthia-nixon-10-cast-ryan-murphy-netflix-series-sarah-paulson-1202535205/|title='Ratched': Sharon Stone, Cynthia Nixon Among 10 Cast In Ryan Murphy's Netflix Series|first=Denise|last=Petski|work=Deadline|date=January 14, 2019|access-date=January 20, 2019|archive-date=January 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115075834/https://deadline.com/2019/01/ratched-sharon-stone-cynthia-nixon-10-cast-ryan-murphy-netflix-series-sarah-paulson-1202535205/|url-status=live}} Since 2021 she returned to the role of Miranda Hobbes in the Sex and the City revival And Just Like That... for HBO Max where she also serves as an executive producer. Since 2022 she took a leading role of Ada Brook in another HBO Max show The Gilded Age starring alongside Louisa Jacobson, Christine Baranski, and Carrie Coon.

Nixon is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Nixon is a long-time advocate for public education. She is a spokesperson for New York's Alliance for Quality Education, a public education fairness advocacy organization.{{cite web|url=http://www.aqeny.org/2018/01/16/aqe-reacts-executive-education-budget-proposal/|date=January 16, 2018|title=AQE Reacts to Executive Education Budget Proposal|publisher=Alliance for Quality Education|access-date=March 20, 2018|archive-date=March 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321130405/http://www.aqeny.org/2018/01/16/aqe-reacts-executive-education-budget-proposal/|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine|url=https://nymag.com/arts/theater/profiles/21647/|magazine=New York Magazine|date=October 2, 2006|last=Nussbaum|first=Emily|title=Educating Cynthia|access-date=April 15, 2020|archive-date=May 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512162648/https://nymag.com/arts/theater/profiles/21647/|url-status=live}} Nixon also has a history of advocacy in support of women's health.

She endorsed Bill de Blasio in the 2013 New York City mayoral election, who went on to win the Democratic nomination and the general election. Nixon campaigned actively for de Blasio, whom she had worked with since the early 2000s when campaigning against Michael Bloomberg's education policies. De Blasio credited Nixon and union leader George Gresham as the two "architects of (his) campaign" in the Democratic primaries, when he defeated the favorite Christine Quinn. After his election, de Blasio appointed Nixon as his representative to The Public Theater.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/nyregion/cynthia-nixon-christine-quinn-de-blasio.html |title=2018 Is Cynthia Nixon's First Race; 2013 Was Her First Political Rodeo |last1=Goldmacher |first1=Shane |last2=Bernstein |first2=Jacob |date=21 March 2018 |website=NYTimes.com |access-date=21 April 2018 |archive-date=April 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421094842/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/nyregion/cynthia-nixon-christine-quinn-de-blasio.html |url-status=live }}

In the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Nixon endorsed Bernie Sanders before campaigning for him in early February 2020 in Las Vegas. She stated, "In the same terrifying and muscular way that Trump is a force for so much of what is bad in this country, in this world, Bernie has that same kind of muscularity of vision but for good. A candidate who is too beholden to big money and the establishment and just basically doesn't want to rock the boat is never going to be a powerful enough counterbalance to what Donald Trump has to offer. You need someone as vigorous and who is wanting to turn the system upside down."{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Ted |title=Cynthia Nixon Endorses Bernie Sanders In New Video |url=https://deadline.com/2020/02/bernie-sanders-cynthia-nixon-1202854403/ |access-date=March 21, 2020 |newspaper=Deadline |date=February 7, 2020 |archive-date=March 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321211003/https://deadline.com/2020/02/bernie-sanders-cynthia-nixon-1202854403/ |url-status=live }}

In 2023, Nixon signed an open letter expressing "serious concerns about editorial bias" in reporting by the New York Times on transgender people. The letter characterized the NYT's coverage as using "an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language", and raised concerns regarding the NYT's employment practices regarding trans contributors.{{Cite news |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/02/15/1157181127/nyt-letter-trans |title='New York Times' contributors slam paper's coverage of transgender people |last1=Mary |first1=Yang |date=Feb 15, 2023}}{{Cite news |work=The Hill |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3859501-nyt-contributors-blast-papers-coverage-of-transgender-people/ |title=NYT contributors blast paper's coverage of transgender people |last=Migdon |first=Brooke}}{{Cite news |work=The Hollywood Reporter |title=Judd Apatow, Gabrielle Union, Tommy Dorfman Accuse The New York Times of "Dangerous Inaccuracies" in Coverage of Trans People |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/gabrielle-union-glaad-letter-new-york-times-coverage-transgender-people-1235325874/ |last=White |first=Abbey}}

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On March 19, 2018, Nixon announced her campaign for Governor of New York as a challenger to Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo.{{Cite news|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/cynthia-nixon-is-gaining-on-andrew-cuomo.html|title=Cynthia Nixon Is Gaining on Andrew Cuomo|last=Nwanevu|first=Osita|work=Slate Magazine|access-date=2018-05-14|language=en|archive-date=May 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515032823/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/cynthia-nixon-is-gaining-on-andrew-cuomo.html|url-status=live}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/national/things-know-about-cynthia-nixon/W3q8cVdz0vIp0WkWEHF8LJ/|title=7 things to know about Cynthia Nixon|last=Pirani|first=Fiza|date=March 20, 2018|website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=May 14, 2018|archive-date=May 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515044137/https://www.ajc.com/news/national/things-know-about-cynthia-nixon/W3q8cVdz0vIp0WkWEHF8LJ/|url-status=live}} She lost in the Democratic primary to Cuomo on September 13, 2018, with 34% of the vote to his 66%.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/13/us/elections/results-new-york-primary-elections.html|title=New York Primary Election Results|last1=Almukhtar|first1=Sarah|date=2018-09-13|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-12-29|last2=Bloch|first2=Matthew|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|last3=Lee|first3=Jasmine C.|archive-date=October 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030210055/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/13/us/elections/results-new-york-primary-elections.html|url-status=live}} Nixon was initially nominated as the gubernatorial candidate for the Working Families Party; however, the party threw its support to Cuomo, after he defeated Nixon in the Democratic primary.

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2018/04/13/labor-unions-pull-out-of-wfp-ahead-of-state-committee-meeting-364371|title=Cuomo cedes WFP line, labor unions pull out of party|first=Jimmy|last=Vielkind|date=April 13, 2018|website=politico.com|access-date=April 20, 2018|archive-date=April 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414233931/https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2018/04/13/labor-unions-pull-out-of-wfp-ahead-of-state-committee-meeting-364371|url-status=live}} On April 15, Nixon won 91.5 percent of the vote at the Party's statewide committee meeting after Cuomo withdrew himself from consideration at the last minute. Nixon stated that in the event that she did not also secure the Democratic nomination, she would "confer with the Working Families Party and we will make the decision we think is best".{{cite web |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/04/14/andrew-cuomo-sees-whats-coming-he-doesnt-know-whether-to-run-join-it-or-destroy-it/ |title=Andrew Cuomo Sees What's Coming. He Doesn't Know Whether To Run, Join It, Or Destroy It |last=Aronoff |first=Kate |date=15 April 2018 |website=The Intercept |access-date=15 April 2018 |archive-date=April 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415054354/https://theintercept.com/2018/04/14/andrew-cuomo-sees-whats-coming-he-doesnt-know-whether-to-run-join-it-or-destroy-it/ |url-status=live }}

The endorsement caused a schism in the party, as labor unions, including the Service Employees International Union, and Communications Workers of America, indicated they would not support the party in the election. The withdrawal, it was believed, would significantly hurt the party's finances which, in 2018, were at a level of $1.7 million and supported a statewide staff of about 15 people. The battle received considerable attention since there were concerns that Nixon might drain enough votes from Cuomo in the general election to allow a Republican to be elected (though Cuomo was comfortably leading the polls at the time). Cuomo had vigorously campaigned to get the nomination before withdrawing when it was clear he would not get it.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/nyregion/cuomo-nixon-wfp-labor-governor-election.html|title=Flexing Their Support for Cuomo, Key Unions Leave Working Families Party|newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 13, 2018|access-date=May 14, 2018|archive-date=May 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514043624/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/nyregion/cuomo-nixon-wfp-labor-governor-election.html|url-status=live|last1=Goldmacher |first1=Shane |last2=McKinley |first2=Jesse }}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/nyregion/cynthia-nixon-cuomo-working-families-party.html|title=Working Families' Nod to Nixon Ends a Battle, but the War Awaits|date=April 19, 2018|access-date=May 14, 2018|newspaper=The New York Times|first1=Jesse|last1=McKinley|first2=Vivian|last2=Wang|archive-date=April 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180425065357/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/nyregion/cynthia-nixon-cuomo-working-families-party.html|url-status=live}}

In contrast to Cuomo, Nixon supported the legalization of marijuana.{{cite web|url=https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/cannabis-parade-new-york-usa-05-may-2018-9663801ac|author=Volcov, William|title=Cannabis parade, New York, USA - 05 May 2018 : Cynthia Nixon and political activist Dana Beal|website=Shutterstock|access-date=5 May 2018}} The most important reason, she said, was racial justice. "People across all ethnic and racial lines use marijuana at roughly the same rate, but the arrests for marijuana are 80 percent black and Latino." Nixon said that the revenues from legalization should be prioritized to the communities that had been harmed by them, as a form of "reparations". She said that people in jail on marijuana charges should be released, criminal records for marijuana use should be expunged, and marijuana revenues should be used to help them reenter society.{{cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/cynthia-nixons-emphasis-on-marijuana-legalization-added-vital-thinking-to-the-new-york-gubernatorial-debate/|title=Cynthia Nixon's Emphasis on Marijuana Legalization Added Vital Thinking to the New York Gubernatorial Debate|quote="There are a lot of reasons to do it," the challenger said of legalization, "but first and foremost, because it's a racial-justice issue."|first=John|last=Nichols|newspaper=The Nation|date=August 30, 2018|access-date=September 5, 2018|archive-date=September 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905175950/https://www.thenation.com/article/cynthia-nixons-emphasis-on-marijuana-legalization-added-vital-thinking-to-the-new-york-gubernatorial-debate/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/nyregion/cynthia-nixon-marijuana-legalization.html|title=Cynthia Nixon Puts Legalizing Marijuana Front and Center of Campaign|first=Vivian|last=Wang|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 11, 2018|access-date=September 5, 2018|archive-date=September 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905181914/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/nyregion/cynthia-nixon-marijuana-legalization.html|url-status=live}} However, many black leaders were offended by her use of the term "reparations".{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/5/8/17331660/cynthia-nixon-marijuana-licenses-reparations|title=Cynthia Nixon called marijuana licenses a "form of reparations" for black people. Not exactly.|website=Vox|access-date=May 14, 2018|date=May 8, 2018|archive-date=May 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514132601/https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/5/8/17331660/cynthia-nixon-marijuana-licenses-reparations|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2018/5/11/cynthia-nixon-catches-criticism-both-parties-during-bay-ridge-visit|title=Cynthia Nixon catches criticism from both parties during Bay Ridge visit – Brooklyn Daily Eagle|website=www.brooklyneagle.com|access-date=May 14, 2018|date=March 22, 2012|archive-date=May 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515020132/http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2018/5/11/cynthia-nixon-catches-criticism-both-parties-during-bay-ridge-visit|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/black-reverends-slam-cynthia-nixon-reparations-comment-article-1.3988213|title=EXCLUSIVE: African-American reverends slam Cynthia Nixon's 'reparations' comment – NY Daily News|first=Erin|last=Durkin|website=New York Daily News|date=May 14, 2018 |access-date=May 14, 2018|archive-date=May 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514120941/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/black-reverends-slam-cynthia-nixon-reparations-comment-article-1.3988213|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ebony.com/news-views/cynthia-nicynthia-nixon-says-legalized-pot-in-new-york-could-serve-as-a-reparations-for-black-communities-xon-reparations|title=Cynthia Nixon Says Legalized Pot in New York Could Serve as a 'Reparations' for Black Communities – EBONY|date=May 8, 2018|access-date=May 14, 2018|archive-date=May 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514213739/http://www.ebony.com/news-views/cynthia-nicynthia-nixon-says-legalized-pot-in-new-york-could-serve-as-a-reparations-for-black-communities-xon-reparations|url-status=live}}

On June 22, 2018, during a campaign event in New York City, Nixon referred to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a “terrorist organization” and called for the agency to be abolished.{{Cite web |last=Anapol |first=Avery |date=2018-06-22 |title=Cynthia Nixon: ICE 'a terrorist organization,' should be abolished |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/393602-cynthia-nixon-ice-is-a-terrorist-organization/ |access-date=2023-08-05 |website=The Hill |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last1=Ember |first1=Sydney |last2=Herndon |first2=Astead |date=2018-06-29 |title=How 'Abolish ICE' Went From Social Media to Progressive Candidates' Rallying Cry (Published 2018) |language=en |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/politics/abolish-ice-midterms-immigration.html |access-date=2023-08-05}}{{Cite web |date=2018-06-22 |title=Controversy Over Cynthia Nixon's Latest Immigration Comments - CBS New York |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nixon-immigration-comments/ |access-date=2023-08-05 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}} She later reiterated her claim in a Twitter post.{{Cite tweet |number=1009961268193742850 |user=CynthiaNixon |title=ICE is a terrorist organization, and its egomaniacal leader is Donald Trump. Sign our petition to #AbolishICE: http://bitly.com/AbolishICENow |first=Cynthia |last=Nixon |date=June 21, 2018 |access-date=December 4, 2023}}

On May 23, 2018, 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 on the ballot.{{cite news|first1=Kenneth|last1=Lovett|first2=Glenn|last2=Blain|first3=Janon|last3=Fisher|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cuomo-overwhelmingly-beats-cynthia-nixon-democratic-convention-article-1.4005644|title=Gov. Cuomo overwhelmingly beats out Cynthia Nixon for Democratic Party nomination|newspaper=NY Daily News|date=2018-05-24|access-date=2018-06-23|archive-date=July 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704140503/https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cuomo-overwhelmingly-beats-cynthia-nixon-democratic-convention-article-1.4005644|url-status=live}} Nixon filed a petition with 65,000 signatures, more than four times the 15,000 required, to force a primary election.{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cynthia-nixon-gather-signatures-ballot-york-governor/story?id=55387202 |title=Cynthia Nixon must gather signatures to get on ballot for New York governor |date=May 23, 2018 |access-date=April 10, 2018 |work=ABC News |first=Chris |last=Donato |archive-date=May 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180524045512/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cynthia-nixon-gather-signatures-ballot-york-governor/story?id=55387202 |url-status=live }} The primary was held on September 13.{{cite web |url=https://nypost.com/2018/07/18/cuomos-lead-widens-over-nixon-in-democratic-primary-race/ |title=Cuomo's lead widens over Nixon in Democratic primary race |last=Fredericks |first=Bob |date=July 18, 2018 |work=The New York Post |access-date=July 21, 2018 |archive-date=July 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721073348/https://nypost.com/2018/07/18/cuomos-lead-widens-over-nixon-in-democratic-primary-race/ |url-status=live }} With 93% of precincts reporting, Cuomo received 65% of votes and Nixon got 35%.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/13/andrew-cuomo-cynthia-nixon-new-york-primary|title=New York primary: governor Andrew Cuomo defeats Cynthia Nixon|first=Erin|last=Durkin|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=14 September 2018|archive-date=September 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914043548/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/13/andrew-cuomo-cynthia-nixon-new-york-primary|url-status=live}}

On October 5, 2018, 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/spin-cycle/cuomo-nixon-molinaro-1.21518093|title=Cuomo accepts Working Families line, ends feud|website=Newsday|language=en|access-date=2018-12-29|archive-date=October 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007073754/https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/spin-cycle/cuomo-nixon-molinaro-1.21518093|url-status=live}}

In August 2021, Cuomo was forced to resign as governor following allegations of sexual harassment by women who worked in his office.{{Cite web|date=2021-08-10|title=Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigns over sexual harassment allegations|url=https://apnews.com/article/andrew-cuomo-resigns-17161f546bb83c32a337036ecf8d2a34|access-date=2021-08-26|website=AP NEWS|language=en|archive-date=August 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826061704/https://apnews.com/article/andrew-cuomo-resigns-17161f546bb83c32a337036ecf8d2a34|url-status=live}} As a result of the scandal, he was stripped of the honorary Emmy given to him for his televised Covid briefings in 2020.{{Cite web|last=Niedzwiadek|first=Nick|title=Cuomo loses Emmy following scandal, resignation|url=https://politi.co/3zgYKhk|access-date=2021-08-26|website=Politico PRO|date=August 24, 2021 |language=en}} After he left office, Nixon tweeted on August 24, 2021: "The difference between me and Andrew Cuomo? Neither of us is governor, but I still have my Emmy(s)."{{Cite web |url=https://twitter.com/cynthianixon/status/1430247064580116491 |title=The difference between me and Andrew Cuomo? Neither of us is governor, but I still have my Emmy(s) |date=August 24, 2021 |access-date=September 18, 2021 |website=Twitter |language=en |archive-date=September 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918105700/https://twitter.com/CynthiaNixon/status/1430247064580116491 |url-status=live }}

Nixon supports South Africa's genocide case against Israel. She contributed to a video series, published by the Palestine Festival of Literature, in support of South Africa's motion, accusing Israel of genocide against civilians in Gaza. The ICJ ruled it was plausible that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.{{cite news |date=January 12, 2024 |title=Susan Sarandon, Charles Dance, Cynthia Nixon Among Stars Supporting South Africa's Genocide Charges Against Israel' |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/susan-sarandon-charles-dance-cynthia-nixon-israel-genocide-trial-1235786416/ |work=The Hollywood Reporter}}{{cite news |last1=Al-Kassab |first1=Fatima |title=A top U.N. court says Gaza genocide is 'plausible' but does not order cease-fire |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1227078791/icj-israel-genocide-gaza-palestinians-south-africa |access-date=26 April 2024 |work=NPR |date=26 January 2024}}

From 1988 to 2003, Nixon was in a relationship with educator Danny Mozes.{{cite news |last=Nudd |first=Tim |title=Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni Get Married |url=https://people.com/celebrity/cynthia-nixon-marries-christine-marinoni-in-n-y-c/ |access-date=March 13, 2014 |newspaper=People |date=May 28, 2012 |archive-date=September 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921184826/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20599177,00.html |url-status=live }} They have two children together. In June 2018, Nixon revealed that her older child is transgender.{{cite news |last=Fernandez |first=Alexia |title=Cynthia Nixon Reveals Her Oldest Child Is Transgender as They Mark Trans Day Of Action |url=https://www.people.com/tv/cynthia-nixon-reveals-son-samuel-is-transgender/amp/ |access-date=June 23, 2018 |newspaper=People |date=June 22, 2018 |archive-date=June 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623030510/https://people.com/tv/cynthia-nixon-reveals-son-samuel-is-transgender/amp/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Silverman |first=Stephen M. |title=Cynthia Nixon's Latest Role: Breast Cancer Advocate – and Survivor |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20191916,00.html |access-date=March 13, 2014 |newspaper=People |date=April 16, 2008 |archive-date=December 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202232514/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20191916,00.html |url-status=dead }}

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In 2004, Nixon began dating education activist Christine Marinoni. Nixon and Marinoni became engaged in April 2009,{{cite news |title=Cynthia Nixon Announces Engagement |url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/cynthia-nixon-announces-engagement_article_18045 |access-date=March 13, 2014 |newspaper=Access Hollywood |date=May 18, 2009 |archive-date=October 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012125641/http://www.accesshollywood.com/cynthia-nixon-announces-engagement_article_18045 |url-status=live }} and married in New York City on May 27, 2012, with Nixon wearing a custom-made, pale green dress by Carolina Herrera.{{cite news |last=Bauer |first=Zoe |title=Celebrity Weddings: Brides Who Wore Colored Dresses in 2012 |url=http://celebrity.yahoo.com/news/celebrity-weddings-brides-wore-colored-dresses-2012-212200273.html |access-date=March 13, 2014 |newspaper=Yahoo! Celebrity |date=December 4, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313111323/http://celebrity.yahoo.com/news/celebrity-weddings-brides-wore-colored-dresses-2012-212200273.html |archive-date=March 13, 2014 |df=mdy-all}} Marinoni gave birth to a son in 2011.{{cite news |last=Jordan |first=Julie |title=Cynthia Nixon & Christine Marinoni Welcome a Son |url=https://people.com/parents/christine-marinoni-cynthia-nixon-have-a-son/ |access-date=March 13, 2014 |newspaper=People |date=February 8, 2011 |archive-date=April 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415140452/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20464553,00.html |url-status=live }}

Regarding her sexual orientation, Nixon remarked in 2007: "I don't really feel I've changed. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. I'm just a woman in love with another woman."{{cite news |last=Hiscock |first=John |title=Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon: 'I'm just a woman in love with a woman' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3673343/Sex-and-the-Citys-Cynthia-Nixon-Im-just-a-woman-in-love-with-a-woman.html |access-date=March 13, 2014 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=May 13, 2008 |archive-date=April 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421022814/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3673343/Sex-and-the-Citys-Cynthia-Nixon-Im-just-a-woman-in-love-with-a-woman.html |url-status=live }} She identified herself as bisexual in 2012,{{cite news |last=Grindley |first=Lucas |title=Cynthia Nixon: Being Bisexual "Is Not a Choice" |url=http://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2012/01/30/cynthia-nixon-being-bisexual-not-choice |access-date=March 13, 2014 |newspaper=The Advocate |date=January 30, 2012 |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411075829/https://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2012/01/30/cynthia-nixon-being-bisexual-not-choice |url-status=live }} and as queer starting in 2018.{{Cite web |last=Stroude |first=Will |date=2020-09-10 |title=Cynthia Nixon explains why she identifies as 'queer' |url=https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/film-tv/cynthia-nixon-explains-why-she-identifies-as-queer-301633/ |access-date=2023-12-05 |website=Attitude |language=en-GB}} Prior to the legalization of same-sex marriage in Washington state (Marinoni's home state), Nixon had taken a public stand supporting the issue, and hosted a fundraising event in support of Washington Referendum 74.{{cite news |last=Dickie |first=Lance |title=Ref. 74: Separate but equal does not work |url=http://seattletimes.com/html/edcetera/2019247905_separate_but_equal_does_not_wo.html |access-date=March 13, 2014 |newspaper=The Seattle Times |date=September 24, 2012 |archive-date=December 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204041631/http://seattletimes.com/html/edcetera/2019247905_separate_but_equal_does_not_wo.html |url-status=live }}

In October 2006, Nixon was diagnosed with breast cancer during a routine mammography.{{cite news |first1=Olivia |last1=Sterns |first2=Jen |last2=Periera |first3=Thea |last3=Trachtenberg |first4=Laura |last4=Zaccaro |title=Cynthia Nixon Beats Breast Cancer, Becomes Advocate |url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4656719&page=1 |access-date=March 13, 2014 |newspaper=ABC News |date=April 15, 2008 |archive-date=January 31, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131035347/http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4656719&page=1 |url-status=live }} She initially decided not to go public with her illness because she feared it might hurt her career,{{cite web |url=http://www.abcgonline.com/archive/2005/01_cel/index.htm |title=Celebrities Inspiration Roundup |publisher=American Breast Cancer Guide |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928131136/http://www.abcgonline.com/archive/2005/01_cel/index.htm |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |df=mdy-all }} but in April 2008, she announced her battle with the disease in an interview with Good Morning America. Since then, Nixon has become a breast cancer activist. She 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.{{cite news |last=Hooper |first=Duncan |title=Cynthia Nixon describes breast cancer treatment |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1895837/Cynthia-Nixon-describes-breast-cancer-treatment.html |access-date=June 10, 2014 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=April 17, 2008 |archive-date=July 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719080900/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1895837/Cynthia-Nixon-describes-breast-cancer-treatment.html |url-status=live }}

She and Marinoni live in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.{{cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2021/06/25/cynthia-nixon-scores-manhattan-townhouse-for-4-4m/ |title=Cynthia Nixon scores NYC townhouse for $4.4M |date=June 25, 2021 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.glamour.com/story/cynthia-nixon-new-york-governor-interview|title=Cynthia Nixon Opens Up About Her Campaign for Governor: 'I Have a Right to Be Here'|first=Justine|last=Harman|website=Glamour|date=March 22, 2018|access-date=April 18, 2018|archive-date=April 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419120517/https://www.glamour.com/story/cynthia-nixon-new-york-governor-interview|url-status=live}} Nixon and her family attend Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, an LGBT synagogue.{{Cite web|url=https://forward.com/culture/film-tv/397020/the-secret-jewish-history-of-cynthia-nixon/|title=The Secret Jewish History Of Cynthia Nixon|first=Seth|last=Rogovoy|website=The Forward|date=March 20, 2018 |access-date=March 21, 2018|archive-date=March 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321160518/https://forward.com/culture/film-tv/397020/the-secret-jewish-history-of-cynthia-nixon/|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWNV4OC27FQ | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211102/hWNV4OC27FQ| archive-date=2021-11-02 | url-status=live|title=Cynthia Nixon Pride 2011 |author=BeitSimchatTorah |date=July 1, 2011 |access-date=April 20, 2018 |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web |url=https://www.jta.org/2013/05/22/arts-entertainment/cynthia-nixon-hosts-party-for-jewish-organization-truah |title=Cynthia Nixon hosts party for Jewish organization T'ruah – Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=May 22, 2013 |website=jta.org |access-date=April 20, 2018 |archive-date=March 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320022108/https://www.jta.org/2013/05/22/arts-entertainment/cynthia-nixon-hosts-party-for-jewish-organization-truah |url-status=live }}

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Nixon has received numerous awards including two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Tony Awards. She has also received several honors including the Muse Award presented by the New York Women in Film & Television in 2008, the Vito Russo Award presented by the GLAAD Media Awards in 2010, the Yale University Artist for Equality award in 2013{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/07/cynthia-nixon-yale-artist-equality-gay-rights_n_2639125.html|title=Cynthia Nixon Honored With Yale's 'Artist For Equality' Award For Gay Rights Advocacy|date=February 7, 2013|work=Huffington Post|access-date=March 20, 2018|archive-date=June 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626191758/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/07/cynthia-nixon-yale-artist-equality-gay-rights_n_2639125.html|url-status=live}} and the Faith Hubley Memorial Award during the Provincetown International Film Festival in 2016.{{fact|date=November 2023}}

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