Cynthia NixonFilmography

Lymelife

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin, Emma Roberts, Jill Hennessy, Timothy Hutton

Synopsis: Nearly a decade after impressing audiences at the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival with their engaging coming-of-age story Goat on Fire & Smiling Fish, filmmakers Derick and Steven Martini return to deliver this period drama following two families whose lives are profoundly affected by Read More

Sex and the City

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth

Synopsis: The hit cable series Sex and the City catwalks its way onto the big screen in this feature-film continuation that fans all over have been clamoring for. Sarah Jessica Parker returns once again as Carrie Bradshaw, the style-maven journalist whose romantic exploits were the key focus of the show. Read More

The Babysitters

Actors: John Leguizamo, Katherine Waterston, Cynthia Nixon, Andy Comeau, Denis O'Hare

Synopsis: A bored suburban husband finds his affair with a high-school babysitter fast snowballing out of control in this black comedy from first-time screenwriter/director David Ross. Shirley (Katherine Waterston) is a brainy honors student who is always thinking about the future, and works part-time as a Read More

An Englishman in New York

Actors: John Hurt, Denis O'Hare, Swoosie Kurtz, Cynthia Nixon, Jonathan Tucker

Synopsis: In 1975, John Hurt starred in a BBC television adaptation of Quentin Crisp's autobiography The Naked Civil Servant, playing the flamboyantly gay author and actor, and in 2009 Hurt revisits the role in this comedy-drama based on the latter years of Crisp's life. Crisp rose to fame in the UK Read More

Eloise: Eloise in Hollywood

Actors: Mary Matilyn Mouser, Lynn Redgrave, Tim Curry, Cynthia Nixon, Lacey Chabert, Alan Cumming

Synopsis: Lynn Redgrave, Alan Cummings, Cynthia Nixon, and Tim Curry all lend their voices to this wide-eyed tale of adventure and awe in the exciting world of Tinseltown. Adapted from the popular series of children's books by Kay Thompson, Eloise in Hollywood finds everyone's favorite six-year old Plaza Read More

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Alternate

Synopsis: A woman (Cynthia Nixon) with multiple personalities may have harmed her infant daughter. As Stabler and Benson investigate the case, they discover the woman herself may have been abused as a child, resulting in her fractured psyche. Meanwhile, Munch is put in charge of the department after the Read More

One Last Thing...

Actors: Gina Gershon, Wyclef Jean, Sunny Mabrey, Cynthia Nixon, Michael Angarano, Michael Rispoli, Brian Stokes Mitchell

Synopsis: A teenage boy makes the sort of wish you'd expect a teenage boy to make, and he might just get to live it out in this dark comedy. Dylan Jamieson (Michael Angarano) is a 16-year-old boy living in Pennsylvania who is being raised by his mother, Karen (Cynthia Nixon), on her own after the death of Read More

Little Manhattan

Synopsis: The bittersweet pangs of first love among sixth graders sets the stage for this romantic comedy. Gabe (Josh Hutcherson) is an 11-year-old boy living on the more exclusive side of New York City; his parents, Adam (Bradley Whitford) and Leslie (Cynthia Nixon), are splitting up, and as their marriage Read More

Warm Springs

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer, Tim Blake Nelson, Jane Alexander

Synopsis: In the tradition of Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello, the made-for-cable biopic Warm Springs focuses on one of the least publicized aspects in the life of America's most-publicized (and longest-serving) president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, here played brilliantly by British actor Kenneth Branagh Read More

House: Deception

Synopsis: At an offtrack betting parlor, House (Hugh Laurie) meets Anica Jovanovich (Cynthia Nixon of Sex and the City fame), whose caustic wit and alcoholic capacity nearly matches his own. After Anica suffers a seizure, House diagnoses pancreatic cancer, but she seems curiously unconcerned. As it turns Read More

Tanner on Tanner [TV Series]

Actors: Michael Murphy, Cynthia Nixon

Sex and the City: Season 06

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon

Igby Goes Down

Actors: Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Claire Danes, Ryan Phillippe, Bill Pullman, Amanda Peet

Synopsis: The cynical son of an upper-class New York family bedeviled by booze, pills and mental illness strikes out on his own in this caustic, darkly comic drama. Igby Slocomb (Kieran Culkin) and his older brother, Oliver (Ryan Phillippe), are are in the process of killing their mother, Mimi (Susan Sarandon Read More

Sex and the City: Season 05

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon

Intimate Portrait: Cynthia Nixon

Sex and the City: Season 04

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon

Papa's Angels

Synopsis: The lingering illness and death of his beloved wife has left young Appalachian farmer Grins Jenkins (Scott Bakula) a melancholy shell of his ebullient former self. As Christmas approaches, Jenkins can find no discernable reason for going on with his own life. But Grins' four spunky and resourceful Read More

Sex and the City: Season 03

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon

The Out-of-Towners

Actors: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Mark McKinney, John Cleese, Oliver Hudson

Synopsis: When Frank Sinatra sang "If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere, it's up to you, New York!" he probably didn't have the same odds in mind that line up against Henry and Nancy Clark in The Out-Of-Towners. Henry (Steve Martin) is an advertising man from Ohio who runs his life on an exacting Read More

Advice From a Caterpillar

Actors: Cynthia Nixon, Ally Sheedy

Synopsis: Andy Dick and Cynthia Nixon star in the romantic comedy Advice from a Caterpillar as best friends who become two points in a love triangle when they each become attracted to the same man. Their feelings make a mess of their once strong friendship, as well as their opinions of themselves. Jon Read More

Touched by an Angel: Into the Fire

Synopsis: Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon guest stars as Melina Richardson, a disillusioned, dispirited woman who is drawn to the Golden Path Insitute, a religious cult led by one Brother John (played by a decidedly cast-against-type Montel Williams). Sensing that the cult's purpose is far from altruistic Read More

Sex and the City: Season 02

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon

Sex and the City: Season 01

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon

Sex and the City [TV Series]

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis

Synopsis: This comedy drama series, adapted from the book by New York columnist Candace Bushnell, centers around four single women who carve to the core of the Big Apple. Bushnell called the casting of this series "brilliant." Newspaper columnist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) labels herself a Read More

The "M" Word

Actors: Cynthia Nixon, Christine Tucci, Marnie Pomerantz, Wolfgang Bodison, Vincent Angell

Synopsis: Three decades worth of Top-40 singles are featured on the soundtrack of this romantic comedy-drama about marriage (i.e., the "M" word) in the Big Apple. Smooth-talker Nick (Andrew Heckler) makes a move when Sarah (Marnie Pomerantz) begins to harbor doubts about her impending marriage to her Read More

Marvin's Room

Actors: Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Hume Cronyn

Synopsis: Two sisters try to set their familial differences aside -- one in hopes of saving her own life -- in this drama with comic accents. Bessie (Diane Keaton) has lived in Florida for the past 20 years, where she's been caring for her chronically ill father Marvin (Hume Cronyn) and her Aunt Ruth (Gwen Read More

The Cottonwood

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, a winning lottery ticket gives four aspiring actors the chance of a lifetime. The quartet is first seen commiserating over the failure of their latest off-Broadway production in the Cottonwood Diner in Greenwich Village. To ease the sting of a scathing review, the four buy a Read More

Baby's Day Out

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Haley, Cynthia Nixon

Synopsis: John Hughes sticks to his seemingly fool-proof formula for success in Baby's Day Out, a cross-pollination of Home Alone and a Swee' Pea cartoon. The plot seems all-too familiar: posing as baby photographers, a group of three would-be kidnappers (led by the usually outstanding character actor Joe Pantoliano Read More

The Pelican Brief

Actors: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn

Synopsis: Embroiled in an affair with Thomas Callahan (Sam Shephard), her alcoholic professor, precocious 24-year-old Tulane University law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) writes up an insightful theory about the recent murder of two Supreme Court justices, one of whom, Abraham Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn) Read More

Addams Family Values

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack, Christina Ricci

Synopsis: The ghoulish cartoon family created by Charles Addams returns for a second big-screen outing darker and nastier than the first. When Morticia Addams (Anjelica Huston) gives birth to new baby boy Pubert, the other Addams children, Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) and Wednesday (Christina Ricci), devise any Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Threshold of Fear

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) cannot help but take interest in the plight of her reclusive neighbor Alice Morgan (Cynthia Nixon), who has suffered from extreme agoraphobia ever since she witnessed her mother's murder. More recently, Alice has been experiencing disturbing visions of her own demise at Read More

Face of a Stranger

Synopsis: In this touching drama, based on a magazine article by Mary Stuart, a wealthy socialite finds herself impoverished following her husband's sudden death. Across the street from her tiny apartment, there lives a bag lady in large cardboard box. The women, realizing that they have more in common than Read More

Love, Lies & Murder

Actors: Clancy Brown, John Ashton, Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly

Synopsis: Love, Lies and Murder is based on a true story that began its tragic unspooling on March 19, 1985 in Garden Grove, California. 23-year-old wife and mother Linda Brown is murdered. She leaves behind her computer-consultant husband Clancy Brown, her 17-year-old sister (Sheryl Lee), a 14-year-old Read More

My Shadow

Synopsis: An unlikely friendship develops between two seemingly dissimilar women in this made-for-television adaption. Gena Rowlands stars as Pat Foster, the wife of a wealthy Seattle businessman. When he dies unexpectedly, her finances are put into jeopardy and she suddenly feels empathy for a homeless Read More

Law & Order: Subterranean Homeboy Blues

Synopsis: In a fictionalized replay of the Bernhard Goetz incident, former dancer Laura di Biasi (Cynthia Nixon), a white woman, is arrested after shooting two black youths on a subway. Di Biasi claims that she was acting in self defense, but Assistant D.A. Robinette (Richard Brooks), himself an Read More

The Love She Sought

Actors: Angela Lansbury, Robert Prosky, Gary Hershberger

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury stars as an unmarried teacher at a Minnesota Catholic grade school. An ongoing battle with new bishop Robert Prosky, coupled with her friendship with an unwed mother, awakens hera to the possibility that she hasn't lived her life to the fullest. When her grateful school staff Read More

Let It Ride

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, David Johansen, Teri Garr, Jennifer Tilly, Allen Garfield

Synopsis: Joe Pytka's comedy stars Richard Dreyfuss as Trotter, a cab driver who gets a hot tip on a horse race and soon finds himself on the gambling hot streak of his life. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Gideon Oliver: Sleep Well, Professor Gideon

Synopsis: This TV film was the 2-hour pilot for the Gideon Oliver series. Louis Gossett Jr. stars as Oliver, an anthropology professor who uses his knowledge of other cultures to solve mysteries. In the opener, Professor Oliver tackles the murder of an ex-lover, who'd been investigating a cult of satanists. Read More

Tanner '88 [TV Series]

Actors: Michael Murphy, Pamela Reed, Cynthia Nixon

Synopsis: Written by Garry Trudeau and directed by Robert Altman, this is an amusingly vicious squint at the American electoral process. Michael Murphy plays Jack Tanner, Democratic Presidential nominee. Also featured are Cynthia Nixon as Jack's teenage daughter Alex, and Pamela Reed as campaign manager T. Read More

O.C. and Stiggs

Actors: Daniel Jenkins, Neil Barry, Paul Dooley, Jane Curtin, Ray Walston, Jon Cryer

Synopsis: In what can only be described as a dramatic change of pace, Robert Altman directed this raunchy teen comedy based on the antics of two characters featured in a series of stories published in the National Lampoon. Oliver Cromwell Ogilvie (Daniel Jenkins), aka O.C., and his buddy Mark Stiggs (Neil Barry Read More

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

Synopsis: Mark Twain's essay is brought to life with this video telling the Civil War story of a Confederate troop who has not been exposed to the atrocities of war. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Murder of Mary Phagan

Actors: Wendy J. Cooke, Peter Gallagher, Kevin Spacey, Richard Jordan, Jack Lemmon

Synopsis: The made-for-TV The Murder of Mary Phagan is an account of the real-life events fictionalized in the 1937 theatrical feature They Won't Forget. In 1913, Atlanta-area teenager Mary Phagan (Wendy J. Cooke) is found murdered. Although the evidence points to another suspect (who years later confessed Read More

The Manhattan Project

Actors: John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon, Jill Eikenberry, John Mahoney

Synopsis: Everyone knows that teenagers are smarter than adults, and if given a chance the kids could save the world--if they don't blow it to bits first. The Manhattan Project tells of how 16-year-old Christopher Collet tries to alert his community to the dangers of nuclear energy. John Lithgow, a doctor Read More

Amadeus

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice

Synopsis: For this film adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Broadway hit, director Milos Forman returned to the city of Prague that he'd left behind during the Czech political crises of 1968, bringing along his usual cinematographer and fellow Czech expatriate, Miroslav Ondricek. Amadeus is an expansion of a Read More

It's No Crush, I'm in Love

Actors: Cynthia Nixon, Mark LaMura

Synopsis: A novel by Jane Foley is the source for this ABC Afterschool Special, which served as the opener for the series' 12th season on the air. Teenager Amy Cassidy (Cynthia Nixon) has developed a crush on her favorite soap opera actor, Zak Whittier. Though sensible in every other respect, Amy is Read More

I Am the Cheese

Actors: Robert MacNaughton, Hope Lange, Don Murray, Robert Wagner, Cynthia Nixon

Synopsis: In this interesting drama based on a novel by Robert Cormier, flashbacks to two different periods of time mixed with scenes from the present slowly unveil the mysterious circumstances surrounding a lonely teen (Robert MacNaughton) who meets regularly with a psychiatrist delving into his past. The Read More

Fifth of July

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, Cynthia Nixon, Richard Thomas, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: Lanford Wilson's dramatic play is adapted for the small screen in this made-for-television movie. Richard Thomas stars as Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost both of his legs in the war. When his friends and family gather at his Missouri farm (which he shares with his lover Jed) after a death, the Read More

My Body, My Child

Actors: Jack Albertson, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis: Originally telecast as an ABC Theatre of the Month special, My Body, My Child nobly attempts to tackle the abortion issue--but does so with a painfully contrived, mazelike Perils of Pauline script. Irish-American schoolteacher Vanessa Redgrave, married to Italian fireman Joe Campanella and Read More

Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Synopsis: Inasmuch as Mark Twain thoughtlessly neglected to mention all the "secret adventures" of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in his own books on these colorful characters, this CBS TV movie performed a public service by taking up the slack. According to Rascals and Robbers, Hannibal's own Tom (Patrick Read More

Prince of the City

Actors: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett, Kenny Marino, James Tolkan

Synopsis: Inspired by a true story, Prince of the City stars Treat Williams as a Manhattan detective who agrees to help the US Department of Justice weed out corruption in the NYPD. Williams agrees on the assurance that he'll never have to turn in a close friend. Wired for sound, Williams almost immediately Read More

Tattoo

Actors: Bruce Dern, Maud Adams, Leonard Frey, Rikke Borge, John Getz

Synopsis: Bruce Dern stars in this disturbing shocker about a mentally unbalanced tattoo artist named Karl Kinski, who is hired to put a series of fake tattoos on fashion model Maddy (Maud Adams) as part of an advertising campaign. But Kinski becomes obsessed with Maddy and decides to kidnap her. Keeping Read More

Little Darlings

Actors: Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol, Matt Dillon, Armand Assante, Krista Errickson

Synopsis: Little Darlings is a teen sex comedy about a group of 15-year-old girls at a summer camp who establish a contest to see which one of them will lose their virginity first. Tatum O'Neal stars as Ferris, a naive but sexually aware rich girl on the make with the older camp swimming instructor Gary (Armand Assante Read More

Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid

Actors: Robbie Rist, Butterfly McQueen, Christopher Hewett, Rex Robbins, Cynthia Nixon

Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Calvin Brundage (Robbie Rist) may be the richest kid in town, but that certainly doesn't mean that he's the happiest. Unable to make friends -- or even buy them -- the lonely Calvin has become a couch potato glued to his television. Then one day, a genie (played by the inimitable Butterfly McQueen Read More