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Tony Award winner Cynthia Nixon will be a recurring guest star on the new Showtime series The Big C, according to a report on Deadline.com.
Nixon will play a friend of series star Laura Linney, who plays Cathy, a repressed suburban wife and mother who reclaims her life after a terminal cancer diagnosis. As previously reported, the show’s cast will also include theater veterans Brian Cox and Oliver Platt, as well as Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe. The series is scheduled to premiere on August 16.
Nixon won a Tony Award for her performance in Rabbit Hole. Among her other Broadway credits are The Women, Indiscretions, The Heidi Chronicles, Hurlyburly, The Real Thing and The Philadelphia Story. The actress is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Miranda in Sex and the City, both on television and in its film incarnations.
