Cynthia Nixon joins cast of Showtime’s “The Big C”
Cynthia Nixon - Photo by Steven Sebring/Provided by Showtime
Cynthia Nixon (“Sex and the City”) has signed on to be a guest star in four episodes of the new Showtime dark comedy series “The Big C,” starring Laura Linney (“John Adams”).
Nixon will play Rebecca, a flaky, long-lost college roommate of Linney’s character, who re-enters her life and shakes things up, according to a Showtime news release.
In “The Big C,” Linney portrays Cathy, a repressed suburban teacher, wife and mother who reclaims her life after a terminal cancer diagnosis.
Oliver Platt (“2012″) co-stars as her husband and Gabourey Sidibe (“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”) plays one of her students.
Brian Cox (“Deadwood”) is also set to play her father in an episode.
“The Big C” will premiere August 16 at 9:30 p.m. on Showtime.
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