Laverne Cox
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
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.
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Born
May 29, 1972
Mobile, Alabama, USA
Known For
Acting
Movies
37 acting
5 crew
Popularity
1.0
Known For
Charlie's Angels
2019
as Bomb Instructor
Promising Young Woman
2020
as Gail
Outcome
2026
as Virginia Allen-Green
Jolt
2021
as Detective Nevin
Animal Farm
2026
as Snowball (voice)
Can You Keep a Secret?
2019
as Cybill
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
2025
as Stacy
Uglies
2024
as Dr. Cable
Grandma
2015
as Deathy
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
2016
as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
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