Laverne Cox
Acting
1972-05-29 · Mobile, Alabama, USA
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laverne Cox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Animal Farm
2026 · Movie
Outcome
2026 · Movie
The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship - A Special Edition of 20/20
2025 · Movie
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
2025 · Movie
Celebrity Weakest Link
2025 · Series
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
2025 · Movie
Outlaws with TS Madison
2025 · Series
Clean Slate
2025 · Series
Heightened Scrutiny
2025 · Movie
Uglies
2024 · Movie
The Stroll
2023 · Movie
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022 · Movie
Power of Women: The Changemakers
2022 · Movie
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 · Series
Sherri
2022 · Series
If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox
2022 · Series
Password
2022 · Series
Inventing Anna
2022 · Series
Jolt
2021 · Movie
The Normal Heart
2021 · Movie
Bad Hair
2021 · Movie
Senior Entourage
2021 · Movie
Amend: The Fight for America
2021 · Series
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
2021 · Series
Promising Young Woman
2020 · Movie
Disclosure
2020 · Movie
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
2020 · Series
Visible: Out on Television
2020 · Series
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
2020 · Series
Charlie's Angels
2019 · Movie
Savage X Fenty Show
2019 · Movie
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019 · Series
Can You Keep a Secret?
2019 · Movie
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019 · Series
Weird City
2019 · Series
We Won't Be Erased
2018 · Movie
Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
2018 · Series
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
2018 · Movie
Freak Show
2018 · Movie
Drop the Mic
2017 · Series
Gavin Grimm vs.
2017 · Movie
Time Marches Forward & So Do We
2017 · Movie
Doubt
2017 · Series
The Trans List
2016 · Movie
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016 · Series
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
2016 · Movie
The $100,000 Pyramid
2016 · Series
Match Game
2016 · Series
To Tell the Truth
2016 · Series
Free CeCe!
2016 · Movie
Celebrity Family Feud
2015 · Series
Grandma
2015 · Movie
Lip Sync Battle
2015 · Series
The T Word
2014 · Movie
Trailblazer Honors
2014 · Series
Grand Street
2014 · Movie
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014 · Series
Faking It
2014 · Series
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
The Blacklist
2013 · Series
Orange Is the New Black
2013 · Series
The Mindy Project
2012 · Series
The Exhibitionists
2012 · Movie
Musical Chairs
2012 · Movie
Carl(a)
2011 · Movie
Down This Road
2010 · Movie
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010 · Series
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Series
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009 · Series
Uncle Stephanie
2009 · Movie
Project Runway
2004 · Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000 · Series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
The View
1997 · Series
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
Law & Order
1990 · Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
MTV Video Music Awards
1984 · Series
People's Choice Awards
1975 · Series
American Music Awards
1974 · Series
The Grammys
1959 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Soapbox
Movie