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Cynthia Nixon & Fiance Christine Marinoni Welcome Son to the Family

By: Feb. 08, 2011
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According to People.com, stage and screen star Cynthia Nixon and her fiance Christine Marinoni have welcomed a son to the family.  Marinoni delivered Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni, on February 7. The couple has been engaged since 2009.

On stage, Nixon portrayed Juliet in a 1988 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet and acted in the workshop production of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, playing several characters after it came to Broadway in 1989.

She replaced Marcia Gay Harden as Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner's Angels in America (1994), received a Tony nomination for her performance in Indiscretions (Les Parents Terribles) (1996, her sixth Broadway show) and  took over the role of Lala Levy in the Tony-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997). In 2006, Nixon won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Rabbit Hole.

 




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