
Laverne Cox
1 FOLLOWER • 41 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

The Blacklist

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Orange Is the New Black

Late Night with Seth Meyers

RuPaul's Drag Race

Project Runway

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The Grammys

The $100,000 Pyramid

Lip Sync Battle

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

Who Do You Think You Are?

Curb Your Enthusiasm

A Little Late with Lilly Singh

MTV Video Music Awards

Faking It

Password

Awkwafina is Nora From Queens

Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler

A Black Lady Sketch Show

The Mindy Project

Charlie's Angels

Amend: The Fight for America

Inventing Anna

Visible: Out on Television

Bad Hair

Promising Young Woman

Grandma

Jolt

Uglies

Doubt

If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again

Clean Slate
Production Credits
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