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Laverne Cox

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.


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Born:
May 29, 1984 In Mobile, Alabama, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
17
First Appeared:
In the movie Carl(a) 2011-10-10
Latest Project:
Movie Bad Hair 2021-05-05
Known For
Poster of Free CeCe
Poster of The T Word
Poster of Carl(a)
Filmography
Movie Bad Hair Virgie 2021-05-05
Movie Promising Young Woman Gail 2020-12-13
Movie Can You Keep a Secret? Cybill 2019-09-13
Movie Savage X Fenty Show Self 2019-09-20
Movie Charlie's Angels Bomb Instructor 2019-11-14
Movie Freak Show Felicia Watts 2018-01-12
Series Doubt Cameron Wirth 2017-02-15
Movie Free CeCe Herself 2016-06-03
Movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again Dr. Frank-N-Furter 2016-10-20
Movie The Trans List Herself 2016-12-05
Movie Grandma Deathy 2015-06-04
Movie Grand Street Chardonnay 2014-05-02
Movie The T Word Herself 2014-10-17
Series Orange Is the New Black Sophia Burset 2013-07-11
Movie Musical Chairs Chantelle 2012-03-23
Movie The Exhibitionists Blithe Stargazer 2012-09-22
Movie Carl(a) Cinnamon 2011-10-10
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