Actor
Laverne Cox
May 29, 1972 · 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 s
Notable work
8Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
as Candayce
7.4Promising Young Woman (2020)
as Gail
7.6The Blacklist (2013)
as Dr. Laken Perillos
6.4Charlie's Angels (2019)
as Bomb Instructor
7.6Orange Is the New Black (2013)
as Sophia Burset
6.5Jolt (2021)
as Detective Nevin
6.4Can You Keep a Secret? (2019)
as Cybill
5.7Uglies (2024)
as Dr. Cable
8Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)
as Laverne Cox
7.8Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014)
as Self
7.3Law & Order (1990)
as Minnie
6.4The Daily Show (1996)
as Self and as Self - Guest
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