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Laverne Cox
Actor, Producer, Director, Additional Credits
Born May 29, 1972 (52 years)
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.
Filmography
| 2025 | |
| 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 | Promising Young Woman · as Gail |
| 2020 | Bad Hair · as Virgie |
| 2020 | Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens (TV Series) · as God (voice) |
| 2019 | Charlie's Angels · as Bomb Instructor |
| 2019 | The Kelly Clarkson Show (TV Series) |
| 2019 | Can You Keep a Secret? · as Cybill |
| 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 | The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | Freak Show · as Felicia Watts |
| 2017 | Dear White People (TV Series) · as Cynthia Fray |
| 2017 | Doubt (TV Series) · as Cameron Wirth |
| 2016 | Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party (TV Series) |
| 2016 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again · as Dr. Frank-N-Furter |
| 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 | |
| 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 |