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:
- 19
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Carl(a) 2011-10-10
- Latest Project:
- Movie Power of Women: The Changemakers 2022-09-22
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Power of Women: The Changemakers | Self | 2022-09-22 |
| Movie | Senior Entourage | Laverne | 2021-05-03 |
| 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 | Charlie's Angels | Bomb Instructor | 2019-11-14 |
| Movie | Savage X Fenty Show | Self | 2019-09-20 |
| Movie | Freak Show | Felicia Watts | 2018-01-12 |
| Series | Doubt | Cameron Wirth | 2017-02-15 |
| Movie | Free CeCe | Herself | 2016-06-03 |
| Movie | The Trans List | Herself | 2016-12-05 |
| Movie | The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again | Dr. Frank-N-Furter | 2016-10-20 |
| 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 |