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Laverne Cox

American actress and LGBT advocate · United States · On the map · Actors · Born 1972 · age 54

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...

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2026Animal FarmFilm, Snowball (voice)2025A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss PeppermintFilm2024UgliesFilm, Dr. Cable2022SherriSeriesNorman Lear: 100 Years of Music and LaughterFilm, 20222021Bad HairFilm, Virgie2020“It's not just about, you know, sort of putting "diverse people" in the same sort of corrupt systems. We have to change the way that power works.”In their words23 June 2020Laverne Cox - Exploring Trans Representation with “Disclosure” | The Daily Social Distancing Show

DisclosureFilm, 2020Producer2019Can You Keep a Secret?Film, Cybill2017Gavin Grimm vs.Film2016Free CeCe!Film, Herself2015“For me, it's always important to support other transgender people, to love and support each other.”In their words23 June 2015Laverne Cox Talks About Being A Transgender Icon | TODAY

Celebrity Family FeudSeries, 2015GrandmaFilm, 2015Deathy2014“The preoccupation with transition and surgery objectifies trans people. And then we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.”In their words7 January 2014Laverne Cox flawlessly shuts down Katie Couric's invasive questions about transgender people

GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak AwardAwardGrand StreetFilm, 2014Chardonnay2013Orange Is the New BlackSeries, Sophia Burset2012The Mindy ProjectSeries, Sheena2011Carl(a)Film, Cinnamon2010Down This RoadFilm, Bartender2009Uncle StephanieFilm, Stephanie2004Project RunwaySeries2000Curb Your EnthusiasmSeries, Laverne Cox1997The ViewSeries1996The Daily ShowSeries1988LIVE with Kelly and MarkSeries1972Born29 May 1972

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  • Disclosure 2020
  • Promising Young Woman 2020
  • Freak Show 2018
  • Jolt 2021
  • Grandma 2015

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Filmography 36

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Television 24

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  1. Being uncomfortable does not mean that you are unsafe. Right? [...] For several years, it was all about bathrooms. Banning trans people from bathrooms, right?

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Awards

GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award2014

About this person

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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Born 1972 · age 54

In the same film or series as Laverne

Alexandra DaddarioAlso in Can You Keep a Secret? (2019)Bette MidlerAlso in Freak Show (2018)Kelly RowlandAlso in Bad Hair (2021)Mandy PatinkinAlso in Disclosure (2020)Randall ParkAlso in A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025)Christina MilianAlso in The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016)