Laverne Cox

American actress and LGBT advocate (born 1972)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1972-05-29
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Film & TV

Acting · Mobile, Alabama, USA

Known for

Outcome — Virginia Allen-Green2026
Animal Farm — Snowball (voice)2026
Heightened Scrutiny — Self2025
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint — Self2025
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie — Stacy2025
The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship — Self2025
Clean Slate — Desiree2025
Celebrity Weakest Link — Self - Contestant2025
Uglies — Dr. Cable

Article

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 in 2014 the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, and the first to be nominated for any 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 regular 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 honored by GLAAD with its Stephen F. Kolzak Award for her work as an advocate 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.