Cynthia Nixon to take on Dickenson role

Cynthia Nixon will star as poet Emily Dickinson in biopic 'A Quiet Passion'.

The 'Sex and the City' actress has been cast as the late US writer - who died at the age of 55 in 1886 - in the movie by British director Terence Davies, who is "over the moon" that the 46-year-old actress accepted his offer to play one of the greatest American poets of all time.