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 the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in any 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 openly transgender woman to win the award. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt.
Laverne Cox
Active - 2004 - Present |
Birth - May 29, 1972 |
Genres - Documentary, Comedy, Drama, Comedy Drama, Thriller
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Subgenres - LGBT-Related Film, Biographical Film, Black Comedy Film, Comedy Drama, Comedy Horror
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Roderick Laverne Cox-
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