Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1972-05-29 (Age: 54)
Place of Birth
Mobile, Alabama, USA
Laverne Cox
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.
Filmography (36)
Animal Farm
2026
Outcome
2026
The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship
2025
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
2025
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
2025
Heightened Scrutiny
2025
Uglies
2024
The Stroll
2023
Power of Women: The Changemakers
2022
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022
Jolt
2021
The Normal Heart
2021
Bad Hair
2021
Senior Entourage
2021
