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Laverne Cox

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1972-05-29 (52 years old)

Biography

Laverne Cox is an American actress, reality television star, television producer, and LGBT advocate. She became known for her portrayal of Sophia Burset on the Netflix television series Orange Is the New Black, for which she became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the acting category, and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer/musician Angela Morley in 1990. In 2015, she became the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on Doubt on CBS.

Filmography

all 79

TV Shows 43

self 43

Movies 36

Voice 3

Producer 1

Desiree / Creator / Executive Producer

Clean Slate (2025)

Self / Executive Producer

Laverne Cox

Biography

Filmography

all 79

TV Shows 43

self 43

Movies 36

Voice 3

Producer 1

Clean Slate (2025)

Heightened Scrutiny (2025)

Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field (2024)

Uglies (2024)

Framing Agnes (2023)

The Stroll (2023)

Power of Women: The Changemakers (2022)

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter (2022)

The Jennifer Hudson Show (2022)

If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox (2022)

Password (2022)

Inventing Anna (2022)

Jolt (2021)

The Normal Heart (2021)

Bad Hair (2021)

Senior Entourage (2021)

Amend: The Fight for America (2021)

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (2021)

Promising Young Woman (2020)

Disclosure (2020)

Bottomless Brunch at Colman's (2020)

Visible: Out on Television (2020)

Awkwafina is Nora From Queens (2020)

Charlie's Angels (2019)

Savage X Fenty Show (2019)

A Little Late with Lilly Singh (2019)

Can You Keep a Secret? (2019)

The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)

A Black Lady Sketch Show (2019)

Weird City (2019)

We Won't Be Erased (2018)

Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler (2018)

The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom (2018)

Glam Masters (2018)

Freak Show (2018)

Drop the Mic (2017)

Gavin Grimm vs. (2017)

Time Marches Forward & So Do We (2017)

Absolutely Trans Is Beautiful! (2017)

Doubt (2017)

The Trans List (2016)

Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party (2016)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016)

Match Game (2016)

To Tell the Truth (2016)

Free CeCe (2016)

Grandma (2015)

Lip Sync Battle (2015)

The T Word (2014)

Trailblazer Honors (2014)

Grand Street (2014)

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014)

Faking It (2014)

Gay Positive (2014)

Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)

A World of Dreams: Voices from the Out100 (2013)

The Blacklist (2013)

Orange Is the New Black (2013)

The Mindy Project (2012)

The Exhibitionists (2012)

Musical Chairs (2012)

Carl(a) (2011)

Down This Road (2010)

Who Do You Think You Are? (2010)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)

RuPaul's Drag Race (2009)

Uncle Stephanie (2009)

Project Runway (2004)

Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)

Known For
Acting

Gender
Female

Birthday
1972-05-29 (52 years old)

Birth Name
Roderick Laverne Cox

Birth Place
Mobile, United States

Siblings
M Lamar

Citizenships
United States

Awards
GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award