19 years after the premiere of Sex & the City, what has become of the heroines of the series and their main love interests?
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker began on Broadway at a very young age before making her television debut in the TV movie My Body, My Child and in the only season of the series Square Pegs. She will then head to the cinema with small roles in Footloose and Firstborn before landing the lead role in the film Girls Just Want To Have Fun. He will then be entrusted with roles with big names in cinema including Nicolas Cage in Honeymoon in Las Vegas or Bruce Willis in Crystal Trap. She will also be featured in two Tim Burton films, Ed Wood and Mars Attacks! But it was her role as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex & the City that earned her worldwide recognition. Since the end of the series, Sarah Jessica Parker has starred in many romantic comedies including Family Spirit, Playboy to Seize and Where Have the Morganas Gone? before returning to the small screen. It is with a small role in Glee that she will find the paths of the TV sets before obtaining in 2016 the main role of the new comedy of HBO, Divorce. A successful return since the series has been renewed for a second saison.
Kim Cattrall
Kim Cattrall already had a busy career before joining the cast of Sex & the City but following her role as the irreverent Samantha Jones, her film career slowed. She was still seen playing Britney Spears' mother in Crossroads, in John Boorman's film The Tiger's tail . It is by getting back into the shoes of the famous croqueuse of men for the cinema that his career will bounce back. In 2010, she played in Roman Polanski's The Ghost writer . Then she will be poached again by HBO in 2014 for the series Sensitive Skin in which she plays a married woman, mother, in the middle of a midlife crisis who rediscovers her sexuality and questions the choices she has made in her life. In parallel with her acting career, Kim Cattrall has written a book on the mysteries and origins of sexual desire, Sexual Intelligence, a book in line with her role as Samantha Jones.
Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon had also proven herself long before Sex & the City when she went on stage for the first time at the age of 12. The 80s were prosperous for the actress, she will indeed pass in front of the cameras of the great directors Sidney Lumet ( The Prince of New York), Milos Forman (Amadeus) or Alan J.Pahula (The Pelican Affair). Her television career exploded with her role as Miranda Hobbes in Sex & the City but her film career suffered. She will still land a few roles including An Englishman in New York (2009), Too big to fall (2012) Beyond Lies (2015). His television career will be cantinated with small roles in The Big C and Hannibal. In 2017, she played the famous and talented poet Emily Dickinson in the biopic Emily Dickinson, a quiet person.
Kristin Davies
Despite a few roles before, Kristin Davies is revealed thanks to her role as Charlotte York in Sex & the city. At the end of the series, the actress continues to perpetuate the image of a charming woman and well in all respects in family comedies such as Neighbor vs . Neighbor or Couples Therapy as well as in children's films such as Raymond or The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl. She also lent her voice to the heroine of the cartoon Miss Spider's sunny Patch Friend. She will also try her luck on Broadway with two different projects in 2012 and 2014. If Kristin Davies continues to tour a little, she now devotes herself to the associative field. Ambassador of OXFAM International since 2014, she fights poverty in the world. The other fight close to his heart is that of the preservation of African flora and fauna. The actress regularly travels to Africa to raise awareness about the plight of elephants, a subject on which she made a self-financed documentary Gardeners of Eden.
Chris Noth
The iconic role of Mr Big will revive the career of this actor with a rich past. Thus in the 2000s, Chris Noth will be very present in the cinema with The Acting Class, Searching for paradise or The perfect man. He will also be rewarded for his Broadway debut in the play " The Best Man" before returning to the big screen. Over the years, he has appeared in Bad Apple , which he also produced (2004), Lovelace (2013), Les 12 coups de minuit (2015), White Girl (2016). In parallel, he continued his career in television. Thus in 2004, a year after the end of Sex & the city he resumed his role of detective Mike Logan in one of the spin-offs of New York District, series that had made him famous. In 2009, he got a recurring role in the recently completed series The Good Wife.
David Eigenberg
The actor who accurately played Steve, Miranda's companion, was already accustomed to TV sets before Sex & the city. We had indeed seen him in The Office or The Practice but his role in Sex & the city will be the most striking. After the series ended, David Eigenberg struggled to find his place. He has indeed accumulated appearances in many series including Everwood, NCIS, The Experts, Criminal Minds, Private Practice, Castle before being noticed by Dick Wolf in New York Special Unit who will then entrust him with the role of Christopher Hermann in Chicago Fire. This role, which he still holds to this day, has given a boost to his career.
Kyle Maclachlan
We tend to forget it but this actor that we no longer present so much in view of his irreproachable career was the time of a few seasons the husband of Charlotte York. It had its place here. We will not dwell on making his filmography much too long but we will only remember that he took over this year the emblematic role of Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks. It can also be found in the Marvel series : Agents of the S.H.I.E.L.D.S, or Portlandia in which he has recurring roles.
Evan Handler
Evan Handler played Charlotte's second husband in the series, Harry Goldenblatt. After the end of the series, he chained small roles in series including Lost, The Experts: Miami, 24 hours chrono before landing in 2007 the role of Charlie Runkle in Californication. He played David Duchovny's agent until the series ended in 2014. Since then, he has appeared in the series The Astronaut Wifes Club and American Horror Story. In 2017, he landed a recurring role in The Breaks, a series about the golden age of American rap.
John Corbett
John Corbett who played the mysterious and sexy Aiden, another love interest of Carrie Bradshaw, has had a busy career since the end of Sex & the city. Seducer of his ladies in many films including But where is Elvis? with Kim Basinger, Fashion Maman with Kate Hudson, Far from Scorched Earth with Charlize Theron and Jennifer Lawrence or more recently A Neighbor Too Perfect with Jennifer Lopez. He also had the lead role in both volumes of the romantic comedy Greek Wedding. He has been seen in more serious roles such as Johnny Burwell in The Messengers or Dave Kominek in Unsuspected. At the same time, he continued his career on television by landing recurring roles in the series United States of Tara, Parenthood and Sex, drugs & rock'n'roll.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
The actor will only appear in the very last season of Sex & the city but his role will not lack importance since he will play Aleksandr Petrovsky, the Russian lover of Carrie Bradshaw, whom she is ready to marry if Mr. Big does not come forward. Mikhail Baryshnikov's career consists of only a few film roles in Night Sun (1985), Patriots (1991), The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (1991), The Babilee Mystery (2007) and The Ryan Initiative (2014). His role in Sex & the City remains surely the most significant of his acting career. Mikhail Baryshnikov is best known for his career as a dancer and choreographer. A graduate of the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, gold medal winner of the Verna International Ballet Competition in Bulgaria and the Moscow International Ballet Competition before becoming a principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre, he is recognized in this field.
James Remar
James Remar made his film debut in 1979 in Walter Hill's Night Warriors . He will become the favorite actor of the director with whom he will shoot in 1980 The Gang of the James brothers, in 1982 48 hours and finally in 1995 the western Wild Bill. He will tour from then on with the greatest Francis Ford Coppola (Cotton Club), Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy and Psycho). He will also play in many mainstream films like White Fang, Judge Dredd, Mortal Kombat. In parallel with his career on the big screen, James Remar regularly turns for television including in the series Two cops in Miami, Tales from the Crypt or Jericho. One of her most recurring roles will be that of Richard Wright, Samantha's boss and lover in Sex & the City before landing that of Harry Morgan, the legal guardian of serial killer hero Dexter. Indeed, his career continues to be prosperous both in film and television after the end of Sex & the city. He will continue to play in mainstream films such as 2 Fast 2 Furious, Blade Trinity, Red, X-Men: The Beginning but also to appear in films of great directors such as Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained .
Jason Lewis
Discovered thanks to his role as Smith Jerold, young and sexy lover of Samantha Jones, in Sex & the city Jason Lewis will continue his career with small roles in film and television. He will play for example Dex Lawson in Charmed for a few episodes or Chad Barry in Brothers & Sisters. On the cinema side, we will see him in The Jacket, The Attic, Mr Brooks, Kill Bobby Z, Textuality and more recently If there be thorns but no very striking role. In 2017, he landed a recurring role in the new NBC series, Midnight, Texas, perhaps a chance to bounce back for this still young actor.
