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Laverne Cox

Laverne Cox

Actor · Born 1972-05-29 · Mobile, Alabama, USA

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Biography

Laverne Cox (born May 29, 1972) is an American actress and LGBTQ advocate. She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, making her the first trans woman to win the award. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regularly on U.S. broadcast TV, as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt. Cox appeared as a contestant on the first season of VH1's reality show I Want to Work for Diddy and co-produced and co-hosted the VH1 makeover television series TRANSform Me. In April 2014, Cox was honoured by GLAAD with its Stephen F. Kolzak Award for advocating for the transgender community. In June 2014, Cox became the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine. Cox is the first transgender person to appear on the cover of a Cosmopolitan magazine, with her February 2018 cover…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) — Candayce
  2. Promising Young Woman (2020) — Gail
  3. The Blacklist (2013) — Dr. Laken Perillos
  4. Charlie's Angels (2019) — Bomb Instructor
  5. Orange Is the New Black (2013) — Sophia Burset
  6. Jolt (2021) — Detective Nevin
  7. Can You Keep a Secret? (2019) — Cybill
  8. Uglies (2024) — Dr. Cable
  9. Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000) — Laverne Cox
  10. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014) — Self
  11. Law & Order (1990) — Minnie
  12. The Daily Show (1996) — Self
  13. Inventing Anna (2022) — Kacy Duke
  14. Grandma (2015) — Deathy
  15. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) — Self
  16. RuPaul's Drag Race (2009) — Self
  17. Outcome (2026) — Virginia Allen-Green
  18. Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) — Self - Guest
  19. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016) — Dr. Frank-N-Furter
  20. The Mindy Project (2012) — Sheena
  21. Amend: The Fight for America (2021) — Self
  22. Faking It (2014) — Margot
  23. Disclosure (2020) — Self - Actress
  24. Freak Show (2018) — Felicia Watts
  25. Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) — Self - Guest
  26. A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025) — Stacy
  27. Lip Sync Battle (2015) — Self
  28. The View (1997) — Self - Guest
  29. Project Runway (2004) — Self - Guest Judge
  30. Weird City (2019) — Liquia
  31. Animal Farm (2026) — Snowball (voice)
  32. Bad Hair (2021) — Virgie
  33. Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009) — Self - Guest
  34. The Oscars (1953) — Self
  35. The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019) — Self
  36. Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens (2020) — God (voice)
  37. LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988) — Self - Guest
  38. The Grammys (1959) — Self
  39. Savage X Fenty Show (2019) — Self
  40. A Black Lady Sketch Show (2019) — Kiana

Directed

  1. The T Word (2014) — Director