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Laverne Cox

Actor, Producer, Director, Additional CreditsBorn May 29, 1972 (53 years)
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.

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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Carla

Known For

  • Promising Young Woman
  • Orange Is the New Black
  • Inventing Anna
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
  • Jolt
  • Uglies
  • Grandma
  • Can You Keep a Secret?
  • Clean Slate
  • Doubt
  • The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
  • The Exhibitionists

Featured Videos

    Filmography

    2025
    Animal Farm · as Snowball (voice)
    2025
    Clean Slate (TV Series) · as Desiree
    2024
    Uglies · as Dr. Cable
    2022
    If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox (TV Series) · as Host - Self
    2022
    Inventing Anna (TV Series) · as Kacy Duke
    2021
    Jolt · as Detective Nevin
    2021
    Senior Entourage · as Laverne
    2020
    2020
    Bad Hair · as Virgie
    2020
    Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens (TV Series) · as God (voice)
    2019
    Charlie's Angels · as Bomb Instructor
    2019
    2019
    2019
    A Black Lady Sketch Show (TV Series) · as Kiana
    2019
    Tuca & Bertie (TV Series) · as Ebony Black
    2019
    Weird City (TV Series) · as Liquia
    2018
    2017
    Freak Show · as Felicia Watts
    2017
    Dear White People (TV Series) · as Cynthia Fray
    2017
    Doubt (TV Series) · as Cameron Wirth
    2016
    2016
    2015
    Grandma · as Deathy
    2014
    Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (TV Series) · as Adele Northrop
    2014
    Faking It (2014) (TV Series) · as Margot
    2013
    The Blacklist (TV Series) · as Dr. Laken Perillos
    2013
    36 Saints · as Genesuis
    2013
    Orange Is the New Black (TV Series) · as Sophia Burset
    2012
    The Mindy Project (TV Series) · as Sheena
    2012
    The Exhibitionists · as Blithe Stargazer
    2011
    Musical Chairs · as Chantelle
    2011
    Carla · as Cinnamon
    2009
    Bored to Death (TV Series) · as Transexual Prostitute
    1999
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) · as Candayce
    1990
    Law & Order (TV Series) · as Minnie

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