Cynthia Nixon's TV, film and theater roles

Cynthia Nixon plays the abandoned wife in Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing," a play in which she played the daughter in 1984.

In this starry 2001 revival of Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 revenge comedy, "The Women," Nixon starred as the wife who was happy until gossipy women enlightened her about her husband's affair with a counter girl at Saks.

In the 2006 off-Broadway revival of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," Nixon shook off her nice-woman image to play the charismatic teacher at a girls' school who is perhaps too fond of fascist dictators. Maggie Smith stamped the role in the movie, while Vanessa Redgrave and Zoe Caldwell set the standard before Nixon onstage.

In the 2006 off-Broadway revival of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," Nixon shook off her nice-woman image to play the charismatic teacher at a girls' school who is perhaps too fond of fascist dictators. Maggie Smith stamped the role in the movie, while Vanessa Redgrave and Zoe Caldwell set the standard before Nixon onstage.

From 1998 through 2004, Nixon was Miranda, everyone's favorite lawyer with scruples and commitment issues in HBO's smash "Sex and the City." She also rejoined her costars for movies in 2008 and 2010.

From 1998 through 2004, Nixon was Miranda, everyone's favorite lawyer with scruples and commitment issues in HBO's smash "Sex and the City." She also rejoined her costars for the movie versions in 2008 and 2010.

Nixon (pictured with Robert Joy) played a gold digger in the 1997 revival of "June Moon," the George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner comedy about a Tin Pan Alley songwriter and troubled romance.

In Jacquelyn Reingold's 2003 "String Fever" Nixon played a former violinist who gets entangled with the scientific theory of string theory through an attractive physicist.

Nixon and John Slattery played grieving parents in David Lindsay-Abaire's 2007 Pulitzer winning drama, "Rabbit Hole." Nixon won a Tony for her portrayal.

Cynthia Nixon (as Myrtle) and Peter Sarsgaard (as Lot) in "Kingdom of Earth" in 1996.

In 2003, Nixon portrayed a single mom dealing with a son with attention deficit disorder in "Distracted" at Laura Pels Theatre.

In 2003, Nixon portrayed a single mom dealing with a son with attention deficit disorder in "Distracted" at the Laura Pels Theatre.

Nixon played the brilliant professor dying of cancer in the 2012 revival of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer-winning "Wit."

Nixon shaved her head to play the brilliant professor dying of cancer in the 2012 revival of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer-winning "Wit."

In 2005, Cynthia Nixon made a big leap from glamorous Miranda in "Sex and the City" to play Eleanor Roosevelt on HBO's movie "Warm Springs," a role for which she was nominated for an Emmy.