Cynthia Nixon

Earned a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word for the album An Inconvenient Truth

Reprised the character of Miranda Hobbs for "Sex and the City: The Movie"

Guest-starred on an episode of NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"

Performed the title role in the off-Broadway play, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"

Won a Tony Award for her portrayal of a grieving mother in Broadway's "Rabbit Hole"

Portrayed Eleanor Roosevelt for HBO's "Warm Springs" opposite Kenneth Branagh as Franklin Roosevelt; received Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG nominations for the role

Reprised role in "Tanner on Tanner," the sequel to the HBO political satire "Tanner '88"

Had a small part in the indie comedy "Igby Goes Down"

Appeared in the Broadway revival of "The Women"

First leading role in a feature, as a video artist romanced by a bisexual actor in "Advice from a Caterpillar"

Made cameo appearance as a participant in a Sexaholics Anonymous meeting in the remake of "The Out-of-Towners"

Best known for her role as Miranda, the no-nonsense lawyer in the HBO series "Sex and the City"; received Emmy (2002, 2003, 2005), Golden Globe (2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006) and SAG (2006) nominations for her role

Returned to Broadway succeeding Jessica Hecht in the Tony Award-winning "The Last Night of Ballyhoo"

Received a Tony nomination for her role as the headstrong young woman who falls for a mama's boy in "Indiscretions"

Replaced Marcia Gay Harden as Harper Pitt, the pill-popping Mormon wife whose husband reveals his homosexuality in Tony Kushner's two-part theatrical epic, "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches" and "Angels in America: Perestroika"

Had featured role as Heather in "Addams Family Values"

Acted in the workshop production of "The Heidi Chronicles"; played several characters when it came to Broadway in 1989

Played the daughter of a presidential candidate in Robert Altman's episodic political satire "Tanner '88" (HBO)

Played the daughter of Jeremy Irons and Christine Baranski in the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing"; also simultaneously appeared in David Rabe's "Hurlyburly"; both directed by Mike Nichols

Portrayed Mozart's maid in Milos Forman's "Amadeus"

TV-movie debut, "My Body, My Child" (ABC) playing Vanessa Redgrave's daughter

Appeared in Sidney Lumet's "Prince of the City"

Broadway debut as the bratty Dinah Lord in the revival of "The Philadelphia Story"

Feature debut, "Little Darlings" playing Sunshine Walker, the daughter of hippie parents

Made TV debut at the age of 12 in the ABC Afterschool Special, "The Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid"

Founding member of the theatrical troupe, The Drama Dept. with Sarah Jessica Parker, Dylan Baker, John Cameron Mitchell and Billy Crudup; acted in the group's productions of Tennessee Wiliams' "Kingdom on Earth" (1996), a revival of "June Moon" (1997) and "The Country Club" (1999)