Laverne Cox
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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- Born:
- May 29, 1984 In Mobile, Alabama, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 31
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Down This Road 2010-04-20
- Latest Project:
- Movie Uglies 2024-09-12
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Uglies | Dr. Cable | 2024-09-12 |
| Series | Inventing Anna | Kacy Duke | 2022-02-11 |
| Movie | Power of Women: The Changemakers | Self | 2022-09-22 |
| Movie | Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter | Self | 2022-09-22 |
| Movie | Senior Entourage | Laverne | 2021-05-03 |
| Series | Amend: The Fight for America | 2021-02-17 | |
| Movie | Bad Hair | Virgie | 2021-05-05 |
| Movie | Jolt | Detective Nevin | 2021-07-15 |
| Movie | Disclosure | Self - Actress | 2020-06-19 |
| Series | Visible: Out on Television | Self | 2020-02-14 |
| Movie | Promising Young Woman | Gail | 2020-12-13 |
| Series | Weird City | 2019-02-13 | |
| Movie | Can You Keep a Secret? | Cybill | 2019-09-13 |
| Movie | Savage X Fenty Show | Self | 2019-09-20 |
| Movie | Charlie's Angels | Bomb Instructor | 2019-11-14 |
| Movie | Freak Show | Felicia Watts | 2018-01-12 |
| Movie | We Won't Be Erased | 2018-11-22 | |
| Movie | The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom | Narrator (voice) | 2018-03-01 |
| Series | Doubt | Cameron Wirth | 2017-02-15 |
| Movie | Free CeCe | Herself | 2016-06-03 |
| Movie | The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again | Dr. Frank-N-Furter | 2016-10-20 |
| Movie | The Trans List | Herself | 2016-12-05 |
| Movie | Grandma | Deathy | 2015-06-04 |
| Series | Faking It | Margot | 2014-04-22 |
| Movie | Grand Street | Chardonnay | 2014-05-02 |
| Series | Orange Is the New Black | Sophia Burset | 2013-07-11 |
| Movie | Musical Chairs | Chantelle | 2012-03-23 |
| Movie | The Exhibitionists | Blithe Stargazer | 2012-09-22 |
| Series | The Mindy Project | Sheena | 2012-09-25 |
| Movie | Carl(a) | Cinnamon | 2011-10-10 |
| Movie | Down This Road | Bartender | 2010-04-20 |