EXCLUSIVE: Cynthia Nixon reveals Sex and the City costume designer Michael Growler is the father of her son Max, 8, with wife Christine Marinoni
- Cynthia Nixon shared a photo of her son with wife Christine Marinoni on Monday
- Max, 8, was seen being outfitted in his Halloween costume, which was created for him by his father Michael Growler
- Growler is a costume designer who worked with Cynthia Nixon on the set of the Sex and the City films after they met on the Broadway production of Rabbit Hole
- Growler and his husband William Bowers were previously seen with Nixon and Marinoni in a Father’s Day post the actress shared on social media
- ‘I couldn’t actually envision being happily married with kids. I thought, “I’m never going to get that,”‘ Marinoni previously told The New York Times
Cynthia Nixon revealed the identity of her and wife Christine Marinoni’s son Max’s father in an Instagram post on Monday.
The Sex and the City star shared a photo of the young boy being outfitted in his Halloween costume, writing: ‘When your dad’s a costumer and you always wanted to be Pennywise…’
That photo not only showed Max but also the man who designed the costume, Michael Growler.
Cynthia Nixon shared a photo of her son with wife Christine Marinoni on Monday as his dad Michael Growler outfitted the boy in a Halloween costume (left, Growler and Nixon on the Sex and the City set in 2009 on right)
Modern family: Growler is a costume designer who worked with Cynthia Nixon on the set of the Sex and the City films after they met on the Broadway production of Rabbit Hole
Growler and Nixon have a relationship that stretches back over a decade, having first worked together on Rabbit Hole.
Nixon’s performance in that play garnered the Broadway veteran her very first Tony Award.
He also worked with the actress on both Sex and the City films, and two years ago the pair headed back to the Great White Way for Little Foxes.
That production landed Nixon her second Tony and reunited Growler with the other leading lady he has long worked with, Laura Linney.
He and Linney first worked together in 2004 when she appeared on Broadway in Sight Unseen.
Growler now works as Linney’s assistant while she films and produces the hit Netflix series Ozark, and has a credit on the upcoming revival of Tales from the City.
His husband William Bowers is a mime and actor who studied with the iconic Marcel Marceau and has taught at NYU and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
Nixon had previously shared a picture of her and Marinoni with Max, Growler and Bowers in 2018, writing: ‘To all of the amazing dads in our children’s lives: Happy #FathersDay!
Marinoni is a longtime activist and community organizer who founded the Alliance for Quality Education in New York in 2000, which is how she met Nixon.
She also took joined the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2014, shortly after he was elected to office.
Marinoni then left her post at City Hall ahead of Nixon’s announcement that she would be running in the Democratic primary for New York governor against Andrew Cuomo.
She revealed in rare interview that their son Max was born in 2011 on the couple’s sixth attempt.
‘I couldn’t actually envision being happily married with kids. I thought, “I’m never going to get that,”‘ Marinoni told The New York Times.
‘I think it’s amazing that I got that. It’s huge.’