Samuel Joseph Mozes: All About Cynthia Nixon's Transgender Child

May 2024 · 5 minute read

Samuel Joseph Mozes is the son of American actress, activist, and theatre director Cynthia Nixon. Cynthia Nixon has been active in the entertainment industry since 1979. She portrayed Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004). She reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the television show And Just Like That… (2021–present). Her other film credits include Amadeus (1984), James White (2015), and playing Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016).

Samuel Joseph Mozes: Bio Summary

NameSamuel Joseph Mozes
Age26 years old (As of 2022)
BornNovember 1996
NationalityAmerican
ParentsCynthia Nixon and Danny Mozes
SiblingsCharles Ezekiel Mozes, Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni
GrandparentsWalter E. Nixon, Jr, and Anne Elizabeth Knoll

Samuel Joseph Mozes was born in November 1996. He is 26 years old as of 2022. He holds American nationality. He was born to Cynthia Nixon and his ex-partner Danny Mozes, a schoolteacher. Cynthia and Danny were in a relationship that lasted from 1988 to 2003.

Samuel Joseph Mozes has a brother called Charles Ezekiel Mozes. He was born on 1st April 2003 and is 19 years old as of 2022. Samuel is the grandchild of Walter Elmer Nixon Jr., a radio journalist from Texas, and Anne Elizabeth (née Knoll), an actress originally from Chicago.

Samuel Joseph Mozes is the stepson of Christine Marinoni. Christine Marinoni, an education activist started dating Samuel’s mother Cynthia Nixon in 2004. They met at a 2002 gay rights rally. They got engaged in April 2009 and it was announced at a rally for New York same-sex marriage.

After dating for a while, they eventually got married on May 27, 2012, in New York City. Cynthia Nixon wore a custom-made, pale green dress by Carolina Herrera. Christine Marinoni gave birth to a son in 2011 called Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni. They live in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

Is Samuel Joseph Mozes’ Mother Bisexual?

Samuel Joseph Mozes’ mother Cynthia Nixon has been open about being bisexual. She revealed in 2007, “I don’t really feel I’ve changed. I’d been with men all my life, and I’d never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn’t seem so strange. I’m just a woman in love with another woman.”

Cynthia Nixon identified herself as bisexual in 2012 but now identifies as queer. Before the legalization of same-sex marriage in Washington state (Marinoni’s home state), she had taken a public stand supporting the issue and hosted a fundraising event in support of Washington Referendum 74.

Cynthia Nixon and her family attend Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, an LGBT synagogue.

Is Samuel Joseph Mozes Transgender?

Yes, Samuel Joseph Mozes is transgender. Samuel is also known as Seph or Samantha Mozes. Samuel’s mother Cynthia Nixon has confirmed that her older child Samuel Joseph Mozes is transgender. Cynthia Nixon has been supportive of her son and has been vocal in her support for the rights of all members of the LGBTQ+ community.

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Cynthia Nixon has been an advocate of the transgender community. Samuel Joseph Mozes was born Samantha Mozes. He adopted the name Samuel Joseph after coming out as transgender. He is affectionately called Seph.

Samuel Joseph Mozes’ Professional Life

Samuel Joseph Mozes had shown interest in being a creative writer and a published author. Per sources, he is a dramaturg and director who was previously a literary intern at Northlight Theatre and Writers Theatre. He reportedly served as an assistant director to Jess McLeod on Landladies, a Northlight Theatre production.

Samuel Joseph Mozes was assistant director on a Redtwist production of King Lear. He has also worked in the Outreach Department of Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Samuel’s mother Cynthia Nixon on the other hand is an American actress, activist, and theatre director.

Cynthia Nixon appeared as Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004). She reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the television show And Just Like That… (2021–present). Her other film credits include Amadeus (1984), James White (2015), and playing Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016).

Cynthia Nixon made her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story. Her other Broadway credits include The Real Thing (1983), Hurlyburly (1983), Indiscretions (1995), The Women (2001), and Wit (2012). She won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Rabbit Hole.

Cynthia Nixon won the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for An Inconvenient Truth, and the 2017 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Little Foxes.

Cynthia Nixon’s other television roles include playing political figures Eleanor Roosevelt, Kade Prenall in NBC Hannibal Warm Springs (2005), Michele Davis in Too Big to Fail (2011), and playing Nancy Reagan in the 2016 television film Killing Reagan. In 2020 she appeared in the Netflix drama Ratched.

Cynthia Nixon announced her campaign for Governor of New York as a challenger to Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo. Her platform focused on income inequality, renewable energy, establishing universal health care, stopping mass incarceration in the United States, and protecting undocumented children from deportation.

Cynthia Nixon lost in the Democratic primary to Cuomo on September 13, 2018, with 34% of the vote to his 66%. She was nominated as the gubernatorial candidate for the Working Families Party; the party threw its support to Cuomo after Nixon lost in the Democratic primary.

Cynthia Nixon has been an advocate for LGBT rights in the United States, particularly the right to same-sex marriage. She received the Yale University Artist for Equality award in 2013 and a Visibility Award from the Human Rights Campaign in 2018.

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