Biography
Laverne Cox 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 in 2014 the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, and the first to be nominated for any 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 regular on U.S. broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt.
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Awards & recognition
- GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award · 2014
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series · 2014 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
Savage X Fenty Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Disclosure
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
MTV Video Music Awards
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
Celebrity Family Feud
The Blacklist
Orange Is the New Black
RuPaul's Drag Race
Promising Young Woman
Law & Order
Amend: The Fight for America
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
A Black Lady Sketch Show
The $100,000 Pyramid
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
Who Do You Think You Are?
Inventing Anna
Freak Show
Faking It
Animal Farm
The Stroll
Jolt
Drop the Mic
Clean Slate
Can You Keep a Secret?
Charlie's Angels
Match Game
Lip Sync Battle
Grandma
The Daily Show
Visible: Out on Television
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Mindy Project
Project Runway
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Weird City
The Trans List
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Uglies
Bad Hair
To Tell the Truth
The Jennifer Hudson Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Outcome
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Late Night with Seth Meyers