Born in New York City, New York

April 9, 1966

Nixon was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Anne Knoll, an actress, and Walter Nixon, a radio journalist.

Little Darlings

March 21, 1980

Nixon made her feature debut co-starring with Kristy McNichol and Tatum O'Neal in Little Darlings. The story is about a group of teenage girls that go to summer camp and bet on which of two of them will lose their virginity first. After that, they choose targets, or guys they want to be the ones they lose the virginity with. Unbeknownst to the adults, all the girls in camp bet money on the contest and divide into two "teams," each rooting and egging on either Ferris or Angel. At the same time, the girls engage in typical teenager acts of fun, such as food fights and other activities.

Prince of the City

August 21, 1981

Prince of the City is a 1981 film about an NYPD officer who chooses to expose corruption.

The Manhattan Project

June 13, 1986

Nixon landed her first major supporting part in a movie as the intelligent girlfriend who aids her teenage boyfriend (Christopher Collet) in building a nuclear bomb in Marshall Brickman's The Manhattan Project. The plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.

Dated Danny Mozes

January 1, 1988 - January 1, 2003

Nixon and Danny Mozes, an English professor, had a relationship from 1988 to 2003.

Tanner '88

Feburary 15, 1988

Nixon essayed the daughter of a presidential candidate (Michael Murphy) in Tanner '88 (also 1988), Robert Altman's sharply-observed, episodic political satire for HBO

The Heidi Chronicles

March 1, 1989

Nixon 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.

Addams Family Values

November 19, 1993

Nixon contributed a supporting performance to Addams Family Values, an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated sequel to the 1991 comedy The Addams Family.

Daughter Samantha Mozes Born

November 1, 1996

Nixon's daughter with Danny Mozes, Samantha Mozes was born in November of 1996.

Sex and the City

June 6, 1998

Nixon raised her profile significantly as one of the four regulars of HBO's successful comedy Sex and the City (1998-2004), as the no-nonsense lawyer Miranda in support of series star Sarah Jessica Parker.

Advice From a Caterpillar

January 1, 2000

The immense popularity of the series led 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 (her best friend) in Advice From a Caterpillar

Papa's Angels

December 3, 2000

Nixon starred opposite Scott Bakula in the holiday telepic Papa's Angels.

Son Charles Ezekiel Mozes Born

December 16, 2002

Nixon's son with Danny Mozes, Charles Ezekiel Mozes was born on December 16, 2002.

Dating Christine Marinoni

January 1, 2004 - Now

Nixon began dating education activist Christine Marinoni in January 2004;[5] media reports of the relationship started surfacing in September of the same year.[6] In February 2005, the New York Post and other sources reported that Nixon had moved to Brooklyn to live with Marinoni. However, Nixon told the The New York Times in January 2006 that she had not moved and that keeping her kids in their Manhattan public schools took priority. Discussing her relationship in an interview in New York Magazine in 2006, Nixon stated that she never felt any struggle with her sexuality: "I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress. I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure."[7] In an interview in May 2007, she said "In terms of sexual orientation 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."

Emmy Award

September 19, 2004

After Emmy nominations as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2002 and 2003, Nixon took home the trophy in 2004 for the series' final season.

Warm Springs

April 30, 2005

Nixon portrayed Eleanor Roosevelt for HBO's Warm Springs (2005), which chronicled Franklin Delano Roosevelt's quest for a miracle cure for his paralytic illness. Nixon earned an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance.

Rabbit Hole

Feburary 2, 2006

Commissioned by South Coast Repertory and first presented at its Pacific Playwrights Festival reading series in 2005, the play focuses on a couple, Becca and Howie, trying to cope with a terrible loss while Becca’s well-meaning mom and off-kilter sister attempt to lift their spirits, each in her own inimitable way.

After 23 previews, the Daniel Sullivan-directed Manhattan Theatre Club production opened on February 2, 2006 at the Biltmore Theatre, where it ran for 77 performances. The cast included Cynthia Nixon, Tyne Daly, John Slattery, Mary Catherine Garrison, and John Gallagher Jr..

Ben Brantley of The New York Times described it as an "anatomy of grief [that] doesn't so much jerk tears as tap them, from a reservoir of feelings common to anyone who has experienced the landscape-shifting vacuum left by a death in the family."

Tony Award

June 11, 2006

In 2006, Nixon won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Play) for David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Rabbit Hole.

Breast Cancer

October 1, 2006

In an interview with Good Morning America that aired on April 15, 2008, Cynthia Nixon announced for the first time that she battled breast cancer, after being diagnosed during a routine mammogram in October, 2006.[10] Initially she did not go public because of the stigma involved,[11] but since then, she not only has openly admitted that she had cancer, she has become a breast cancer activist and was able to convince the head of NBC to air her breast cancer special in primetime.

Sex and the City: The Movie

May 30, 2008

Sex and the City: The Movie (marketed as Sex and the City) is the romantic comedy feature film adaptation of the HBO comedy series Sex and the City (itself based on the book Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell) about four female friends living in New York City. The series often portrayed frank discussions about romance and sexuality.