Laverne Cox

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

82

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: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

  • Law & Order

    Law & Order

  • 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

  • RuPaul's Drag Race

    RuPaul's Drag Race

  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

  • Curb Your Enthusiasm

    Curb Your Enthusiasm

  • The Jennifer Hudson Show

    The Jennifer Hudson Show

  • Sherri

    Sherri

  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

  • Project Runway

    Project Runway

  • Orange Is the New Black

    Orange Is the New Black

  • The View

    The View

  • The View

    The View

  • The Mindy Project

    The Mindy Project

  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

    Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

  • MTV Video Music Awards

    MTV Video Music Awards

  • Lip Sync Battle

    Lip Sync Battle

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • American Music Awards

    American Music Awards

  • Match Game

    Match Game

  • To Tell the Truth

    To Tell the Truth

  • A Little Late with Lilly Singh

    A Little Late with Lilly Singh

  • Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

    Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

  • The $100,000 Pyramid

    The $100,000 Pyramid

  • Drop the Mic

    Drop the Mic

  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    Who Do You Think You Are?

  • Faking It

    Faking It

  • Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

    Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

  • Jolt

    Jolt

  • A Black Lady Sketch Show

    A Black Lady Sketch Show

  • Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

    Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

  • Inventing Anna

    Inventing Anna

  • The Stroll

    The Stroll

  • Promising Young Woman

    Promising Young Woman

  • Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

    Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

  • Animal Farm

    Animal Farm

  • Charlie's Angels

    Charlie's Angels

  • Uglies

    Uglies

  • Amend: The Fight for America

    Amend: The Fight for America

  • A Very Jonas Christmas Movie

    A Very Jonas Christmas Movie

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

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

  • Bottomless Brunch at Colman's

    Bottomless Brunch at Colman's

  • Doubt

    Doubt

  • Grand Street

    Grand Street

  • Trailblazer Honors

    Trailblazer Honors

  • Grandma

    Grandma

  • Gavin Grimm vs.

    Gavin Grimm vs.

  • Weird City

    Weird City

  • Disclosure

    Disclosure

  • Visible: Out on Television

    Visible: Out on Television

  • Carl(a)

    Carl(a)

  • The Normal Heart

    The Normal Heart

  • The Exhibitionists

    The Exhibitionists

  • Clean Slate

    Clean Slate

  • Password

    Password

  • We Won't Be Erased

    We Won't Be Erased

  • Can You Keep a Secret?

    Can You Keep a Secret?

  • Musical Chairs

    Musical Chairs

  • Bad Hair

    Bad Hair

  • Savage X Fenty Show

    Savage X Fenty Show

  • Freak Show

    Freak Show

  • Senior Entourage

    Senior Entourage

  • Senior Entourage

    Senior Entourage

  • The T Word

    The T Word

  • Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler

    Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler

  • Outcome

    Outcome

  • Heightened Scrutiny

    Heightened Scrutiny

  • The Grammys

    The Grammys

  • A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint

    A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint

  • Power of Women: The Changemakers

    Power of Women: The Changemakers

  • The Trans List

    The Trans List

  • If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox

    If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox

  • Down This Road

    Down This Road

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

    A Trans History: Time Marches Forward and So Do We

  • Time Marches Forward & So Do We

    Time Marches Forward & So Do We

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

    The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom

  • Free CeCe

    Free CeCe

  • Uncle Stephanie

    Uncle Stephanie