Season three featured four actors receiving star billing.
Sarah Jessica Parker played the lead character
Carrie Bradshaw, a writer of a sex column, "Sex and the City", for a fictional magazine and the narrator of the series.
Kim Cattrall portrayed
Samantha Jones, a sexually confident public relations agent who follows the same relationship rules that men do.
Kristin Davis played
Charlotte York, an optimistic art museum curator who holds traditional views on relationships.
Cynthia Nixon portrayed
Miranda Hobbes, an acerbic lawyer with a pessimistic outlook on relationships and a distrust of men. The season featured a number of recurring guest appearances.
Chris Noth reprises his role as
Mr. Big, who is currently married to Natasha Naginsky (
Bridget Moynahan).
Willie Garson portrayed Carrie's gay best friend and talent manager Stanford Blatch.
David Eigenberg appears as
Steve Brady, a bartender and Miranda's love interest.
John Corbett played Aidan Shaw, a laid-back furniture designer who becomes Carrie's long-term boyfriend.
Kyle MacLachlan of
Twin Peaks fame joined the series portraying Charlotte's boyfriend and later husband Trey MacDougal, a cardiologist from a wealthy family whose marriage to Charlotte is plagued by his impotence and his intruding mother.
Frances Sternhagen recurred during the season as Trey's mother Bunny. ==Reception==