Laverne Cox

Known for ActingBorn 1972-05-29 (age 54)Mobile, Alabama, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Bottomless Brunch at Colman's

The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship - A Special Edition of 20/20

People's Choice Awards

Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

Savage X Fenty Show

The Grammys

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Disclosure

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

American Music Awards

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom

Celebrity Family Feud

The Blacklist

MTV Video Music Awards

Orange Is the New Black

Trailblazer Honors

RuPaul's Drag Race

Promising Young Woman

Carl(a)

Amend: The Fight for America

A Black Lady Sketch Show

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

Law & Order

The $100,000 Pyramid

Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

Inventing Anna

Who Do You Think You Are?

Freak Show

Visible: Out on Television

Free CeCe!

Faking It

Match Game

The Stroll

Jolt

Animal Farm

Grandma

Drop the Mic

Clean Slate

Charlie's Angels

Can You Keep a Secret?

Lip Sync Battle

The Oscars

The Kelly Clarkson Show

A Very Jonas Christmas Movie

The Mindy Project

The Daily Show