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On stage, Nixon portrayed Juliet in a 1988 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet and acted in the workshop production of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, playing several characters after it came to Broadway in 1989.

She was the guest star in the second episode of the long running NBC television series Law & Order.

She replaced Marcia Gay Harden as Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner's Angels in America ( 1994 ), received a Tony nomination for her performance in Indiscretions ( Les Parents Terribles ) ( 1996, her sixth Broadway show ) and, though she originally lost the part to another actress, eventually took over the role of Lala Levy in the Tony-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo ( 1997 ).