Laverne Cox
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.
85 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 85
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
The Blacklist
2013
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
The View
1997
Orange Is the New Black
2013
Project Runway
2004
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Animal Farm
2026
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
Sherri
2022
MTV Video Music Awards
1984
The Mindy Project
2012
The Oscars
1953
Celebrity Family Feud
2015
People's Choice Awards
1975
Lip Sync Battle
2015
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019
Match Game
2016
To Tell the Truth
2016
American Music Awards
1974
The $100,000 Pyramid
2016
Outcome
2026
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
2021
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
2020
Faking It
2014
A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019
Drop the Mic
2017
Inventing Anna
2022
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016
Charlie's Angels
2019
Trailblazer Honors
2014
Weird City
2019
Password
2022
Doubt
2017
Amend: The Fight for America
2021
Promising Young Woman
2020
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
2020
Jolt
2021
Visible: Out on Television
2020
Celebrity Weakest Link
2025
Uglies
2024
Disclosure
2020
Can You Keep a Secret?
2019
Clean Slate
2025
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022
Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
2018
Grandma
2015
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
2016
Bad Hair
2021
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
2025
Freak Show
2018
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
2018
The Grammys
1959
Savage X Fenty Show
2019
The Exhibitionists
2012
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
2025
The Stroll
2023
Senior Entourage
2021
Musical Chairs
2012
If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox
2022
The Normal Heart
2021
Grand Street
2014
Power of Women: The Changemakers
2022
Down This Road
2010
The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship
2025
The Trans List
2016
Gavin Grimm vs.
2017
The T Word
2014
Heightened Scrutiny
2025
Free CeCe!
2016
Soapbox
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Carl(a)
2011
We Won't Be Erased
2018
Uncle Stephanie
2009
Time Marches Forward & So Do We
2017