Sex and the City (season 5) seasons, season five features the same principal cast and characters. Sarah Jessica Parker portrays Carrie Bradshaw, a fashionable middle aged woman who writes about sex and life in New York City in her column, "Sex and the City", with the fictional "New York Star". Kim Cattrall played the promiscuous public relations agent Samantha Jones. Kristin Davis portrayed Charlotte York MacDougal, an optimistic, straight laced former art curator navigating being newly single while moving on from her failed marriage. Cynthia Nixon acted as the acerbic and sarcastic lawyer Miranda Hobbes, who faces struggles as a working mother. The fifth season featured
Sex and the City (book) Sex and the City (book) Sex and the City is a collection of essays by Candace Bushnell based on her and her friends' lifestyles. It was first published in 1997, and re-published in 2001, 2006, and in 2008 as a 10th anniversary movie tie-in edition. The book is an anthology of columns that Bushnell began writing in 1994 for "The New York Observer". The book was loosely adapted into a long-running HBO television series also called "Sex and the City" (1998–2004) which in turn spawned a 2008 film of the same name and a 2010 sequel written under the fictional