Cynthia Nixon never wants her child to face a situation where abortion is illegal.
The 48-year-old actress is a mom to daughter Samantha and son Charles from her previous relationship with schoolteacher Danny Mozes. After their split in 2003 she began dating education activist Christine Marinoni, with whom she tied the knot with in 2012 and has son Max with.
Cynthia is often involved with different causes, supporting everything from same-sex marriage to the fight against breast cancer, and her current mission involves human life.
"I really don't understand what's happening with abortion in [the US]. If you had told me ten years ago that people would want to make it illegal here... I don't understand the push-back of abortion rights," she sighed to The Edit.
"My mother had an abortion, it was illegal and it was terrible. I will never let that happen to my daughter. That's what happens to women sometimes; it just makes them women in a bad situation. [Anti-abortion groups] are just trying to make women who have an abortion look mean; we can't have that."
Alongside her philanthropic work, Cynthia is still keeping herself busy with acting. She may be best known for her role as lawyer Miranda Hobbes in Sex and the City, but at the moment her passion lies in Broadway. This month she is returning to the stage opposite Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal in Tom Stoppard's production of The Real Thing.
"It's a wonderful play, delicious, unexpected in the way it unfolds," she says of the production, which she originally starred in aged 18, alongside Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons. "A battle of the sexes, but political, too.
"I enjoy [theatre]. The audience is such a big thing in what you are doing. If they could hear how much time [the actors] spend talking about them, they would be shocked. We're the doctor and they're the patient. The doctor is always watching you very carefully, seeing how you react."
