Cynthia Nixon‘s Sex and the City character Miranda Hobbes has mirrored the actress’ personal life in many ways. Life & Style takes a deep dive into her marriage to wife Christine Marinoni and their family life together.
Who Is Cynthia Nixon’s Wife Christine Marinoni?
Christine is a native of Washington State who relocated to New York City in the early 1990s, where she worked as a community organizer and education advocate.
In 1995, Christine came out as gay and opened up a coffee shop in Brooklyn’s Park Slope area shortly thereafter, catering primarily to a lesbian clientele.
“As an LGBTQ person, I’ve always been focused on issues across the board. I think it’s important for the LGBT community to be joining hands with other groups and issues like income inequality and education,” Christine told City & State New York in 2013.
When Did Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni Start Dating?
The And Just Like That… star first met Christine in 2001 when the duo were working on a campaign to help reduce New York Public School class sizes. The pair became close friends and started dating in 2004, one year after Cynthia split from longtime partner Danny Mozes. The former couple share two children: Seph Mozes and Charles Mozes.
Christine Marinoni Was the First Woman Cynthia Nixon Ever Dated
“I had never dated a woman before or even kissed a woman or anything, and so when we started seeing each other, Christine kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, for me to panic about what this would mean – to my career or to myself – as if somehow I just hadn’t noticed that she was a woman,” Cynthia told Radio Times in 2017. “And then she met my mother and that was when she stopped worrying about it.”
Christine Marinoni and Cynthia Nixon
When Did Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni Get Married?
The couple married on May 27, 2012, after gay marriage became legal in the state of New York.
The year prior, Cynthia and Christine welcomed their first child together. With the assistance of a male friend, Christine became pregnant and gave birth to Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni in February 2011.
Cynthia Nixon Says It’s Easy to Call Christine Marinoni Her ‘Wife’
“Yes! She protested a lot at the beginning and wanted a more gender-neutral term, like ‘my spouse’. I said, ‘You think I’m doing that, you’re crazy!’” Cynthia told Radio Times. “Marriage was never a goal of mine. I was with my boyfriend for 15 years and we never got married. But it seemed like Christine and I did fight really hard for it and we had a lovely wedding. Why wouldn’t I have done it?”
Christine Marinoni and Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon’s Romance With Christine Marinoni Mirrored the Changes In Her ‘AJLT’ Character Miranda Hobbes
Miranda only dated men during SATC‘s six-season run, eventually marring David Eigenberg’s Steve Brady in season 6.
When And Just Like That… premiered on HBO in December 2021, Miranda was deeply unhappy in her marriage. She found herself drawn to nonbinary comedian Che Diaz, played by Sara Ramirez. The two embarked on a steamy romance that saw Miranda leave Steve and end their marriage.
Even though Miranda and Che broke up in AJLT season 2, the character will now explore new relationships with women.
“One of the things that it meant was that Miranda was single again, and that the tensions between Miranda and Che, and also Miranda and Steve, had been quelled and quieted,” Cynthia told E! News on May 28, 2025, about her character finally being free of any partner heading into season 3 of AJLT.
“Just speaking for Miranda, it meant that she was setting out on this new dating world, having decided she wanted to date women and nonbinary people, but not really quite knowing how to go about that,” the New York native added.
