FrameThrower · Actors · Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon
4 films · 421 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2008–2016
Born 9 April 1966 · New York City, New York, USA
Cynthia Ellen Nixon is an American actress, activist, and theater director. For her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004), she won the 2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the television show And Just Like That... (2021–present). Her other film credits include Amadeus (1984), James White (2015), and playing Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016).
Nixon made her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 421 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2008–2016
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series2008
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series2004
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play2006
- Lucy Award1999
- Theatre World Award1981
How their films are shot
Measured across 421 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Cynthia takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night — the look of the work Cynthia takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 421 frames from Cynthia Nixon's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.