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

People's Choice Awards

Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

Savage X Fenty Show

Heightened Scrutiny

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

The Grammys

Celebrity Family Feud

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Disclosure

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

American Music Awards

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom

Orange Is the New Black

The Blacklist

MTV Video Music Awards

Trailblazer Honors

Promising Young Woman

RuPaul's Drag Race

Carl(a)

Amend: The Fight for America

Law & Order

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

The $100,000 Pyramid

A Black Lady Sketch Show

Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

Inventing Anna

Who Do You Think You Are?

Freak Show

Faking It

Free CeCe!

The Stroll

Jolt

Drop the Mic

Clean Slate

Grandma

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Charlie's Angels

Animal Farm

Match Game

Can You Keep a Secret?

Lip Sync Battle

The Oscars

A Very Jonas Christmas Movie

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The Daily Show