Laverne Cox

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

87

Gender

Female

Birthday

1972-05-29 (53 years old)

Place of Birth

Mobile, Alabama, USA

Laverne Cox

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

  • Law & Order

    Law & Order

  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

  • The Blacklist

    The Blacklist

  • The Daily Show

    The Daily Show

  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

  • Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

  • The Kelly Clarkson Show

    The Kelly Clarkson Show

  • Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

  • The View

    The View

  • The View

    The View

  • Curb Your Enthusiasm

    Curb Your Enthusiasm

  • Orange Is the New Black

    Orange Is the New Black

  • The Jennifer Hudson Show

    The Jennifer Hudson Show

  • RuPaul's Drag Race

    RuPaul's Drag Race

  • Project Runway

    Project Runway

  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

    Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

  • Sherri

    Sherri

  • MTV Video Music Awards

    MTV Video Music Awards

  • Lip Sync Battle

    Lip Sync Battle

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • The Mindy Project

    The Mindy Project

  • To Tell the Truth

    To Tell the Truth

  • People's Choice Awards

    People's Choice Awards

  • Celebrity Family Feud

    Celebrity Family Feud

  • Match Game

    Match Game

  • A Little Late with Lilly Singh

    A Little Late with Lilly Singh

  • American Music Awards

    American Music Awards

  • Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

    Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

  • Outcome

    Outcome

  • Grandma

    Grandma

  • Gavin Grimm vs.

    Gavin Grimm vs.

  • Uglies

    Uglies

  • Promising Young Woman

    Promising Young Woman

  • Amend: The Fight for America

    Amend: The Fight for America

  • The $100,000 Pyramid

    The $100,000 Pyramid

  • Jolt

    Jolt

  • Freak Show

    Freak Show

  • Drop the Mic

    Drop the Mic

  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    Who Do You Think You Are?

  • Inventing Anna

    Inventing Anna

  • Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

    Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

  • Faking It

    Faking It

  • Charlie's Angels

    Charlie's Angels

  • A Black Lady Sketch Show

    A Black Lady Sketch Show

  • Visible: Out on Television

    Visible: Out on Television

  • Animal Farm

    Animal Farm

  • Trailblazer Honors

    Trailblazer Honors

  • Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

    Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

  • Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler

    Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler

  • Weird City

    Weird City

  • Grand Street

    Grand Street

  • Celebrity Weakest Link

    Celebrity Weakest Link

  • A Very Jonas Christmas Movie

    A Very Jonas Christmas Movie

  • Clean Slate

    Clean Slate

  • Heightened Scrutiny

    Heightened Scrutiny

  • Password

    Password

  • Down This Road

    Down This Road

  • Doubt

    Doubt

  • Bottomless Brunch at Colman's

    Bottomless Brunch at Colman's

  • Disclosure

    Disclosure

  • Can You Keep a Secret?

    Can You Keep a Secret?

  • The Normal Heart

    The Normal Heart

  • The T Word

    The T Word

  • Bad Hair

    Bad Hair

  • The Trans List

    The Trans List

  • The Grammys

    The Grammys

  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again

    The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again

  • The Stroll

    The Stroll

  • Savage X Fenty Show

    Savage X Fenty Show

  • Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

    Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

  • If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox

    If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox

  • A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint

    A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint

  • The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship

    The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship

  • The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom

    The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom

  • Musical Chairs

    Musical Chairs

  • Senior Entourage

    Senior Entourage

  • Senior Entourage

    Senior Entourage

  • Free CeCe

    Free CeCe

  • Time Marches Forward & So Do We

    Time Marches Forward & So Do We

  • Power of Women: The Changemakers

    Power of Women: The Changemakers

  • The Exhibitionists

    The Exhibitionists

  • Carl(a)

    Carl(a)

  • Uncle Stephanie

    Uncle Stephanie

  • We Won't Be Erased

    We Won't Be Erased

  • A Trans History: Time Marches Forward and So Do We

    A Trans History: Time Marches Forward and So Do We