“Z XCQ’W JOQW….. (Please refer to your newspaper for complete puzzle.)
TODAY’S CLUE: P = S
ANSWER: “I DON’T WANT A SHOW IN WHICH EVERYBODY IS BEHAVING WELL ALL THE TIME. A FEMINIST SHOW DOESN’T SHOW WOMEN BEING PERFECT.” — CYNTHIA NIXON
CYNTHIA NIXON
BORN APRIL 9, 1966 • AGE 60 • AMERICAN ACTRESS, DIRECTOR & ACTIVIST
🗽 A NEW YORK GIRL WITH BIG DREAMS
Cynthia Nixon was born in Manhattan in 1966 to an actress mother and a radio journalist father. She began acting professionally as a child and made her Broadway debut at just fourteen in the 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story.
🎭 TWO BROADWAY SHOWS IN ONE NIGHT
In 1984, Nixon performed in two Broadway productions simultaneously, The Real Thing and Hurlyburly. Both were directed by Mike Nichols, and the timing of her appearances allowed her to move between the theaters during the same evening.
📺 THE ROLE THAT MADE HER A HOUSEHOLD NAME
Nixon became widely recognized for portraying attorney Miranda Hobbes in HBO’s Sex and the City, which aired from 1998 to 2004. She won an Emmy Award for the role in 2004 and later returned to the character in two films and the sequel series And Just Like That…
🏆 TWO TONY AWARDS, TWO MEMORABLE ROLES
Nixon received her first Tony Award in 2006 for her leading performance in Rabbit Hole. She won another in 2017 for The Little Foxes, a production in which she and Laura Linney alternated between two major roles.
🎙️ A GRAMMY WITHOUT SINGING A NOTE
In 2009, Nixon shared a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for the audiobook of An Inconvenient Truth. With two Emmys, two Tonys, and a Grammy, she has earned recognition across television, theater, and recorded performance.
🎬 FROM EMILY DICKINSON TO PUBLIC SERVICE
Nixon portrayed poet Emily Dickinson in the 2016 film A Quiet Passion and later appeared in HBO’s The Gilded Age. Outside acting, she has advocated for public education and civil rights and ran for governor of New York in 2018.
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