Laverne Cox
Acting
- Born:
- 1972-05-29
- Place of birth:
- Mobile, Alabama, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Animal Farm
Outcome
The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship - A Special Edition of 20/20
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Celebrity Weakest Link
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
Outlaws with TS Madison
Clean Slate
Heightened Scrutiny
Uglies
The Stroll
Power of Women: The Changemakers
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Sherri
If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox
Password
Inventing Anna
Jolt
The Normal Heart
Bad Hair
Senior Entourage
Amend: The Fight for America
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
Promising Young Woman
Disclosure
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
Visible: Out on Television
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
Charlie's Angels
Savage X Fenty Show
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
Can You Keep a Secret?
The Kelly Clarkson Show
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Weird City
We Won't Be Erased
Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
Freak Show
Drop the Mic
Gavin Grimm vs.
Time Marches Forward & So Do We
Doubt
The Trans List
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
The $100,000 Pyramid
Match Game
To Tell the Truth
Free CeCe!
Celebrity Family Feud
Grandma
Lip Sync Battle
The T Word
Trailblazer Honors
Grand Street
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Faking It
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Blacklist
Orange Is the New Black
The Mindy Project
The Exhibitionists
Musical Chairs
Carl(a)
Down This Road
Who Do You Think You Are?
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
RuPaul's Drag Race
Uncle Stephanie
Project Runway
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The View
The Daily Show
Law & Order
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
MTV Video Music Awards
People's Choice Awards
American Music Awards
The Grammys
The Oscars
Soapbox