Los Angeles: Sex in the City star Cynthia Nixon is reportedly assembling staff ahead of a potential run for governor of New York.

Rebecca Katz and Bill Hyers, who worked on Bill de Blasio's first campaign for mayor of New York, would play major roles in Nixon's candidacy, NY1 reported on Tuesday.

Nixon recently wrote in an op-ed on CNN.com that "each one of us has to do whatever we can to take the government back" including "taking the leap to run for office ourselves".

"Everyday people running means more people of colour, more women, more queer people, more first-generation Americans, more allies - more of the people whose voices have been missing for far too long," she wrote.

"We may not have million dollar super PACs behind us, but we'll have something more important - a shared mission uniting millions of people across this nation."