Actress Cynthia Nixon Challenges Cuomo for New York Governor

  • Nixon has long campaigned for gay rights and school funding
  • New Yorker gained fame as an Emmy-winning television actress
Cynthia Nixon Running for NY Governor
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Actress Cynthia Nixon, who won a 2004 Emmy award for playing single lawyer Miranda Hobbes in HBO’s “Sex and the City,” is reaching for a new role. She plans to challenge New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in a Democratic primary election this year.