About

Known credits:
43
Birthday:
1972-05-29
Place of birth:
Mobile, Alabama, USA
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Laverne Cox

Overview

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.

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Known for

Acting

2025 A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint Actor Self N/A
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2025 Animal Farm Actor Snowball (voice) 58
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2025 Clean Slate Actor Desiree 68
Fair
2025 Heightened Scrutiny Actor Self 58
Average
2024 Uglies Actor Dr. Cable 58
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2023 The Stroll Actor Self (archive footage) 59
Average
2022 Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter Actor Self 59
Average
2022 Power of Women: The Changemakers Actor Self N/A
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2022 If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox Actor Host - Self N/A
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2022 Inventing Anna Actor Kacy Duke 68
Fair
2021 Jolt Actor Detective Nevin 63
Fair
2021 The Normal Heart Actor N/A
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2021 Bad Hair Actor Virgie 58
Average
2021 Senior Entourage Actor Laverne 58
Average
2020 Promising Young Woman Actor Gail 72
Good
2020 Disclosure Actor Self - Actress 63
Fair
2020 Visible: Out on Television Actor Self 69
Fair
2019 Charlie's Angels Actor Bomb Instructor 63
Fair
2019 Savage X Fenty Show Actor Self 60
Fair
2019 Can You Keep a Secret? Actor Cybill 62
Fair
2018 We Won't Be Erased Actor N/A
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2018 The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom Actor Narrator (voice) 59
Average
2018 Freak Show Actor Felicia Watts 60
Fair
2017 Gavin Grimm vs. Actor Herself 59
Average
2017 Time Marches Forward & So Do We Actor Narrator N/A
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2017 Doubt Actor Cameron Wirth 62
Fair
2016 The Trans List Actor Herself 59
Average
2016 The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again Actor Dr. Frank-N-Furter 56
Average
2016 Free CeCe Actor Herself 59
Average
2015 Grandma Actor Deathy 61
Fair
2014 The T Word Actor Herself 59
Average
2014 Grand Street Actor Chardonnay 58
Average
2012 The Exhibitionists Actor Blithe Stargazer 58
Average
2012 Musical Chairs Actor Chantelle 58
Average
2011 Carl(a) Actor Cinnamon 59
Average
2010 Down This Road Actor Bartender N/A
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2009 Uncle Stephanie Actor Stephanie N/A
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Outcome Actor N/A
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Directing

2014 The T Word Directing Director 59
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Production

2025 Clean Slate Production Executive Producer 68
Fair
2025 Heightened Scrutiny Production Executive Producer 58
Average
2020 Disclosure Production Executive Producer 63
Fair
2014 The T Word Production Executive Producer 59
Average