Laverne Cox

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Film & TV

Acting · 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…

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. Cable2024
• The Stroll — Self (archive footage)2023

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1972

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

5,689

Total plays

50,237

Laverne Cox, a Mobile, Alabama native, started her serious dance training in high school at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham. She moved to New York City to study dance at Marymount Manhattan College where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance. There Laverne also became interested in acting, music and gender theory. All of which she began to study in depth. At Marymount Laverne was hand picked by the legendary composer Charles <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Laverne

via Last.fm · Laverne Cox

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Regression Models and Life-Tables

   · 1972 · cited 36,459x

2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,613x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,776x

4. MaxQuant enables high peptide identification rates, individualized p.p.b.-range mass accuracies and proteome-wide protein quantification

   · 2008 · cited 14,594x

5. Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems

   · 2013 · cited 14,151x

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Quotes

• “For me, it's always important to support other transgender people, to love and support each other. There's enough spotlight, there are enough resources to go around, so for me it's always about loving and supporting my trans siblings.”
• “Being uncomfortable does not mean that you are unsafe. Right? [...] For several years, it was all about bathrooms. Banning trans people from bathrooms, right? In the segregated South, white folks were not comfortable with black people in the bathroom with them. But did that mean that they were unsafe?”
• “It's not just about, you know, sort of putting "diverse people" in the same sort of corrupt systems. We have to change the way that power works. And so much of that is about, I believe, changing the material conditions of poor and working people, the people who are the most marginalized, and to get them, you know, opportunities to work in the industry behind the scenes, and then be truly elevated to positions of power.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1972-05-29 ) May 29, 1972 (age 54) , Mobile, Alabama , U.S.

Education

Fashion Institute of Technology Indiana University Bloomington Marymount Manhattan College

Occupations

Actress activist

Years active

2000–present

Relatives

M Lamar (twin brother)

Website

lavernecox .com

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