Cynthia Nixon ready for commitment

After battling breast cancer, ‘Sex And The City’ star Cynthia Nixon is all set to exchange vows with her female partner Christine Marinoni later this year.

The 42-year-old star, who played Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series, had gone for surgery and six-and-a-half weeks of daily radiation treatment when she was diagnosed with the disease in 2006.

Nixon, mother of two with former lover Danny Mozes, has lived with Marinoni in New York since 2005, and will be celebrating their union in a ceremony, which will be a low-key affair.

Sex in City lesbian actresss to be honoured

Lesbian actress Cynthia Nixon, who played Miranda in the hit US TV series Sex In The City, is to be honoured by an American fund which provides educational scholarships for gay students.

Nixon's sexuality was made public in 2004 after she parted from her husband in 2003, In a 2006 interview she said: "I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress. I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure."

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