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Laverne Cox
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Biography
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.
Known For
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Self
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
2025
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Puff (voice)
Animal Farm
2025
6.4
Desiree
Clean Slate
2025
8.0
Self
Heightened Scrutiny
2025
5.8
Dr. Cable
Uglies
2024
6.7
Self (archive footage)
The Stroll
2023
8.0
Self
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022
0.0
Self
Power of Women: The Changemakers
2022
6.4
Self
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
4.2
Self - Guest
Sherri
2022
Credits
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
as Self
2025
0.0
Animal Farm
as Puff (voice)
2025
0.0
Clean Slate
as Desiree
2025
6.4
Heightened Scrutiny
as Self
2025
8.0
Uglies
as Dr. Cable
2024
5.8
The Stroll
as Self (archive footage)
2023
6.7
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
as Self
2022
8.0
Power of Women: The Changemakers
as Self
2022
0.0
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
2022
6.4
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
4.2
If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox
as Host - Self
2022
5.5
Password
as Self - Celebrity Guest
2022
5.8
Inventing Anna
as Kacy Duke
2022
6.8
Jolt
as Detective Nevin
2021
6.5
The Normal Heart
2021
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Bad Hair
as Virgie
2021
5.8
Senior Entourage
as Laverne
2021
2.0
Amend: The Fight for America
as Self
2021
7.1
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
as Self - Contestant
2021
7.4
Promising Young Woman
as Gail
2020
7.4
Disclosure
as Self - Actress
2020
7.9
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
as Self
2020
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Visible: Out on Television
as Self
2020
7.2
Awkwafina is Nora From Queens
as God (voice)
2020
6.9
Charlie's Angels
as Bomb Instructor
2019
6.4
Savage X Fenty Show
as Self
2019
8.3
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
as Self
2019
3.6
Can You Keep a Secret?
as Cybill
2019
6.4
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
6.4
A Black Lady Sketch Show
as Kiana
2019
7.2
Weird City
as Liquia
2019
6.1
We Won't Be Erased
2018
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Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
as Self
2018
5.0
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
as Narrator (voice)
2018
7.7
Freak Show
as Felicia Watts
2018
6.8
Drop the Mic
as Self
2017
6.1
Gavin Grimm vs.
as Self
2017
5.0
Time Marches Forward & So Do We
as Narrator (voice)
2017
0.0
Doubt
as Cameron Wirth
2017
4.6
The Trans List
as Self
2016
6.0
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016
8.5
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
2016
5.1
The $100,000 Pyramid
as Self
2016
7.4
Match Game
as Self - Panelist
2016
5.9
To Tell the Truth
as Self - Panelist
2016
6.2
Free CeCe
as Herself
2016
7.7
Grandma
as Deathy
2015
6.5
Lip Sync Battle
as Self
2015
6.4
The T Word
as Herself
2014
6.1
Trailblazer Honors
as Self - Honoree
2014
7.5
Grand Street
as Chardonnay
2014
8.0
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
as Self
2014
7.9
Faking It
as Margot
2014
6.8
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.8
The Blacklist
as Dr. Laken Perillos
2013
7.6
Orange Is the New Black
as Sophia Burset
2013
7.7
The Mindy Project
as Sheena
2012
6.2
The Exhibitionists
as Blithe Stargazer
2012
3.1
Musical Chairs
as Chantelle
2012
5.0
Carl(a)
as Cinnamon
2011
7.2
Down This Road
as Bartender
2010
0.0
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2010
6.6
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self
2009
7.5
Uncle Stephanie
as Stephanie
2009
1.0
Project Runway
as Self - Guest Judge
2004
6.2
Curb Your Enthusiasm
as Laverne Cox
2000
8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Candayce
1999
7.9
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
4.5
The View
as Self - Guest Co-Host
1997
4.5
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Law & Order
as Minnie
1990
7.4
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.5
MTV Video Music Awards
as Self - Presenter
1984
7.6
American Music Awards
as Self - Presenter
1974
8.2
The Grammys
as Self
1959
8.7
The Oscars
as Self
1953
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