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Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon is set to marry girlfriend of six years, education activist Christine Marinoni.

The 43-year-old actress tells Extra, “My girlfriend and I got engaged last month. We’re hoping to do it in New York. We’re not going to wait forever, but we’re hoping it’s just around the corner…Sometime I think before the end of next summer, but we don’t have a date.”

Cynthia has an engagement ring but also reveals her fiancee chose not to have one: “[Christine] did not get a ring. She will have a wedding ring but she does not want an engagement ring.”

The sequel to the movie Sex and the City will “start shooting sometime in August.”

Cynthia Nixon is engaged to her longtime girlfriend, education activist Christine Marinoni.

The 43-year-old actress announced the engagement news at a rally for gay rights in New York City on Sunday (May 17). Cynthia even showed off her engagement ring at The Love, Peace and Marriage Equality rally, which supported New York Governor David Paterson’s proposed bill granting legal equality to same-sex unions.

“I think we would definitely [get married] if it became legal in New York,” Cynthia has told Access. “I don’t really want to get married to get married pretend. I think we’d like to do it in a real, actual, legal way that the state would recognize.”

Cynthia has two children, daughter Samantha, 12, and son Charles, 6, from her relationship with English professor Danny Mozes. Just a few months ago, Cynthia and Christine took the kids to Disneyland.

Cynthia will be reprising her role as high-power attorney Miranda Hobbes in the movie sequel of Sex and the City, out May 28, 2010.

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Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon poses with her longtime girlfriend Christine Marinoni and their kids — Samantha, 12, and Charlie, 6 — outside Mickey Mouse’s home in Toontown during a visit to Disneyland on Wednesday (December 31) in Anaheim, Calif.

The day after (New Year’s), the 42-year-old Tony and two-time Emmy Award-winning actress was featured on the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer float “Hope Grows” along Colorado Blvd. during the 120th Rose Parade in Pasadena Calif.