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Laverne Cox

Laverne Cox

Birthday: 1972-05-29 | Place of Birth: Mobile, Alabama, USA

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Inventing Anna

as    Kacy Duke

2021
Jolt

as    Detective Nevin

2021
Bad Hair

as    Virgie

2020
Promising Young Woman

as    Gail

2020
2020
Disclosure

as    Self - Actress

2019
Can You Keep a Secret?

as    Cybill

2019
Savage X Fenty Show

as    Self

2017
Doubt

as    Cameron Wirth

2015
Grandma

as    Deathy