Cynthia Nixon

A veteran actress while still not quite out of her teens, Cynthia Nixon’s adult career was built on star turns in critically lauded stage productions like “Hurly Burly” and “The Heidi Chronicles,” which she alternated with memorable supporting turns in film and television productions like “Amadeus” (1984) and Robert Altman’s “Tanner” (HBO, 1988). In 1998, she finally achieved widespread fame as romantically cautious lawyer Miranda Hobbes in “Sex and the City” (HBO, 1998-2005) and its 2008 theatrical feature. Her private life briefly eclipsed her newfound pop culture icon status when she ended