Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon has been performing on stage and screen since
her teen years, but it was her role as Miranda Hobbes on
TV's Sex and the City (1998-2004) that made her a star.
Nixon has worked steadily since her feature film debut in
the teen comedy Little Darlings (1980). She has had small
roles in movies, including Amadeus (1984), Addams Family
Values (1993, with Christina Ricci) and Igby Goes Down
(2002, with Claire Danes), and on television -- notably as
the teenage daughter in the political satire mini-series
Tanner '88. She has also had several roles in Broadway
plays, including a Tony-nominated performance in
Indiscretions (1995). On Sex and the City (with co-star
Sarah Jessica Parker), she played a work-oriented single
mother with an on-again, off-again relationship with her
child's father, a role that earned her an Emmy in 2004.