Laverne Cox
Known for: Acting
Born: May 29, 1972
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
36 movies · 50 TV shows, newest first
6.4
Animal Farm
2026
5.4
Outcome
2026
9.0
The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship - A Special Edition of 20/20
2025
6.2
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
2025
5.0
Celebrity Weakest Link
2025
NR
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
2025
NR
Outlaws with TS Madison
2025
6.3
Clean Slate
2025
4.5
Heightened Scrutiny
2025
5.7
Uglies
2024
6.5
The Stroll
2023
NR
Power of Women: The Changemakers
2022
8.0
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022
5.6
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
2.6
Sherri
2022
5.5
If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox
2022
4.4
Password
2022
6.8
Inventing Anna
2022
6.5
Jolt
2021
NR
The Normal Heart
2021
5.6
Bad Hair
2021
2.0
Senior Entourage
2021
7.1
Amend: The Fight for America
2021
7.1
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
2021
7.4
Promising Young Woman
2020
7.8
Disclosure
2020
10.0
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
2020
6.7
Visible: Out on Television
2020
6.9
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
2020
6.4
Charlie's Angels
2019
8.0
Savage X Fenty Show
2019
3.4
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019
6.4
Can You Keep a Secret?
2019
6.3
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
7.1
A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019
6.1
Weird City
2019
NR
We Won't Be Erased
2018
5.0
Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
2018
7.7
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
2018
6.7
Freak Show
2018
6.5
Drop the Mic
2017
5.0
Gavin Grimm vs.
2017
NR
Time Marches Forward & So Do We
2017
4.5
Doubt
2017
5.7
The Trans List
2016
8.5
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016
5.1
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
2016
7.0
The $100,000 Pyramid
2016
6.4
Match Game
2016
5.8
To Tell the Truth
2016
6.7
Free CeCe!
2016
7.7
Celebrity Family Feud
2015
6.4
Grandma
2015
6.4
Lip Sync Battle
2015
5.8
The T Word
2014
7.5
Trailblazer Honors
2014
5.0
Grand Street
2014
7.8
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
6.7
Faking It
2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
7.6
The Blacklist
2013
7.7
Orange Is the New Black
2013
6.3
The Mindy Project
2012
2.9
The Exhibitionists
2012
5.0
Musical Chairs
2012
7.2
Carl(a)
2011
NR
Down This Road
2010
6.9
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
7.5
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
1.0
Uncle Stephanie
2009
6.3
Project Runway
2004
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
8.1
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
4.3
The View
1997
6.4
The Daily Show
1996
7.3
Law & Order
1990
5.6
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
7.9
MTV Video Music Awards
1984
9.2
People's Choice Awards
1975
8.2
American Music Awards
1974
8.6
The Grammys
1959
7.0
The Oscars
1953NR
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