Laverne Cox
Known For
Acting
Born
1972-05-29 in Mobile, Alabama, USA
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 on the South African edition. She is also the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laverne Cox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Candayce
Law & Order
as Minnie
The Blacklist
as Dr. Laken Perillos
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
The Daily Show
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
Curb Your Enthusiasm
as Laverne Cox
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
as Self
Orange Is the New Black
as Sophia Burset
The View
as Self - Guest
The View
as Self - Guest Co-Host
Project Runway
as Self - Guest Judge
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
The Mindy Project
as Sheena
Sherri
as Self - Guest