Laverne Cox
1 FOLLOWER • 38 CREDITS • MAY 29, 1972 • 52
Biography
Laverne Cox is an American actress, reality television star, television producer, and LGBT advocate. She became known for her portrayal of Sophia Burset on the Netflix television series Orange Is the New Black, for which she became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the acting category, and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer/musician Angela Morley in 1990. In 2015, she became the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on Doubt on CBS.
Known For
Law & Order
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Oscars
The Daily Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Blacklist
Orange Is the New Black
Late Night with Seth Meyers
RuPaul's Drag Race
Project Runway
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Grammy Awards
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
Who Do You Think You Are?
Lip Sync Battle
Curb Your Enthusiasm
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
MTV Video Music Awards
Faking It
Amend: The Fight for America
Password
Awkwafina is Nora From Queens
Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
A Black Lady Sketch Show
The Mindy Project
Charlie's Angels
Inventing Anna
Visible: Out on Television
Bad Hair
Promising Young Woman
Jolt
Grandma
Doubt
Uglies
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox
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