Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon has announced she is launching a bid for New York governor.
Nixon, who played Miranda Hobbs on the HBO series, plans to challenge incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic party nomination.
The actress announced her plans to challenge the incumbent governor on Twitter on Monday.
The 51-year-old liberal activist, who had long been tipped to run, has never held elected office.
Recall that Nixon played a career-oriented lawyer from 1998-2004 on television show Sex and the City. She won an Emmy for her work in 2004.
It was presented to her by another television celebrity – Donald Trump, whose presidency she has recently railed against.
We are now the most unequal state in the entire country, with both incredible wealth and extreme poverty,” she said in a video posted on Twitter announcing her candidacy.
Splashed across the top of her website are more hints of her campaign’s coming focus. One of the five categories — along with “Meet Cynthia” and “Donate” — is a hashtag: #CuomosMTA, a term used often by critics of the governor for New York’s faltering subway system run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
I love New York, and today I’m announcing my candidacy for governor. Join us: https://t.co/9DwsxWW8xX pic.twitter.com/kYTvx6GZiD
— Cynthia Nixon (@CynthiaNixon) March 19, 2018
Ms Nixon married her wife Christine Marinoni in 2012.
Nixon is gay and her wife works in the LGBTQ community as an activist and recently served in the capacity of an adviser for New York City’s Deputy Mayor Richard Buery .