Cynthia Nixon’s personal life is as dramatic as any Sex and the City plot
From , May 17, 2008
While the crew on the forthcoming Sex and the City: The Movie has spent the past 18 months desperately trying to keep the plot under wraps, one cast member has been struggling with a far weightier secret: Cynthia Nixon, who plays lawyer Miranda Hobbes, has been battling against breast cancer. Speaking on a recent American chat show, the 42-year-old actress revealed that during a routine mammogram in 2006 a tumour was diagnosed. She went on to say that she didn’t want her scare to become public knowledge while she had surgery to remove the lump.It was while starring in the off-Broadway production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie that she received the diagnosis. “I felt scared,” she has said, “but I was very cognisant of the fact that if it’s going to happen, this is the best way for it to happen – it’s found so early and we can just get right on it.”Her partner, Christine Marinoni, was a vital source of support. The couple went public in 2004, when they revealed a year-long relationship that stretched back to Nixon’s split from the musician Danny Mozes, the father of her two children (Samantha, 11, and Charles, 5). According to reports, Nixon and Marinoni hope to get married this autumn... [article continues]
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