Christine Marinoni is a renowned American education and gay rights activist. She is also famous for her marital relationship with actress, activist, and politician Cynthia Nixon. Nixon is famous for her role of a lawyer Miranda Hobbes in Sex in the City. Nixon also won Emmy and Screen Actors Guild awards for her role in the series.
Early Life and Bio
Christine Marinoni was born in Washington in 1951. Other than this, Marinoni hasn't revealed anything about her early life and parents. Moreover, her educational background is also missing.
Career and Rise to Stardom
Christine Marinoni initially established herself as a gay rights activist and education activist. According to her, she started working as an activist due to the self-interest that she felt after certain events in her life.
Marinoni came out as a lesbian in 1995 and soon started a lesbian coffee shop in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York. A few years later, one of her bartenders left the job after becoming a victim of hate crime.
CAPTION: Gay rights activist Christine Marinoni with her wife SOURCE: New York Daily News After the event, Marinoni organized some small events to raise attention to the issues faced by the LGBT people. She also asked the police for the increased police protection. She became the active activist after a gay college student Matthew Shepard was brutally tortured and murdered in 1998.
Her involvement in the legalization of gay marriage increased after she started dating actress Cynthia Nixon. The two wanted to marry, so they met the legislator in Albany to discuss the same-sex marriage.
Net Worth
Since Christine Marinoni is an activist, her income and net worth is not really known to the media until the time. However, we believe she possesses a beautiful net worth and lives a lavish life with her wife, Nixon.
On the other hand, Marinoni's wife actress Cynthia Nixon has an impressive net worth of $60 million. Marinoni and Nixon live a lavish life with Nixon's astounding net worth that she earned from her extensive acting career.
Nixon's work in the HBO series Sex in the City is one of her prominent film which plays an important role in her multimillion-dollar net worth. Nixon worked alongside Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, and Kristin Davis.
Personal Life and Marriage
Christine Marinoni met her future wife actress Cynthia Nixon at an education fundraiser rally in May 2002. At that time Nixon was in a relationship with her then-boyfriend Danny Mozes. They broke up in 2003 and Marinoni became Nixon's emotional support.
The couple started dating in 2004, however, they kept it low key out of concerns that it would ruin Nixon's acting career. In an interview with Radio Times in 2017, Nixon told the lovebirds stopped worrying after Marinoni met her mother after which they took their relationship to the public.
CAPTION: Christine Marinoni and her wife Cynthia Nixon SOURCE: Popsugar After around five years of relationship, they became engaged in April 2009. But, they didn't tie the knot until gay marriage was legalized in New York. Finally, they got married in New York City on May 27, 2012, after same-sex marriage was legalized in New York.
As of now, the lovebirds live together in their Manhattan apartment. Moreover, Nixon also has two children; Samantha and Charles from her previous relationship with Mozes.
by ab-sandip, 30 Aug, 2019
