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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.
Birth Name
Roderick Laverne Cox
Born
Monday, 29 May 1972
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Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Inventing Anna | Kacy Duke | 2022 |
Framing Agnes | Self | 2022 |
Jolt | Detective Nevin | 2021 |
Senior Entourage | Laverne | 2021 |
The Dorians Film Toast 2021 | Self | 2021 |
Amend: The Fight for America | Self | 2021 |
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune | Self - Celebrity Contestant | 2021 |
Promising Young Woman | Gail | 2020 |
Bad Hair | Virgie | 2020 |
Disclosure | Self - Actress | 2020 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Inventing Anna | Kacy Duke | 2022 |
Framing Agnes | Self | 2022 |
Jolt | Detective Nevin | 2021 |
Senior Entourage | Laverne | 2021 |
The Dorians Film Toast 2021 | Self | 2021 |
Amend: The Fight for America | Self | 2021 |
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune | Self - Celebrity Contestant | 2021 |
Promising Young Woman | Gail | 2020 |
Bad Hair | Virgie | 2020 |
Disclosure | Self - Actress | 2020 |
What to Watch | Self | 2020 |
Visible: Out on Television | Self (actor - Orange is the New Black) | 2020 |
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens | God | 2020 |
Charlie's Angels | Bomb Instructor | 2019 |
2019 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Self - Presenter & Nominee | 2019 |
Savage X Fenty Show | Self | 2019 |
A Little Late with Lilly Singh | Self | 2019 |
The Kelly Clarkson Show | Self - Guest | 2019 |
Can You Keep a Secret? | Cybill | 2019 |
A Black Lady Sketch Show | Kiana | 2019 |
Tuca & Bertie | Ebony Black / Judge Sparrow | 2019 |
1969 | Self | 2019 |
Weird City | Liquia | 2019 |
Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 2018 |
Glam Masters | Self - Host | 2018 |
49th NAACP Image Awards | Self | 2018 |
Freak Show | Felicia Watts | 2018 |
Drop the Mic | Self | 2017 |
Absolument Trans | Self | 2017 |
Dear White People | Cynthia Fray | 2017 |
Doubt | Cameron Wirth | 2017 |
The Trans List | Herself / Self | 2016 |
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Party Challenge | Herself | 2016 |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again | Dr. Frank-N-Furter | 2016 |
The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards | Self - Presenter | 2016 |
Harry | Self - Guest | 2016 |
Match Game | Self - Celebrity Panelist | 2016 |
To Tell the Truth | Self - Panelist | 2016 |
Free CeCe! | Self - Interviewer / Herself | 2016 |
Megyn Kelly Presents | Self | 2016 |
Chelsea | Sophia Burset | 2016 |
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self - Guest | 2015 |
Grandma | Deathy | 2015 |
Lip Sync Battle | Self - Competitor | 2015 |
The Late Late Show with James Corden | Herself - Guest, Herself | 2015 |
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce | Adele Northrop | 2014 |
The T Word | Herself / Self - Presenter | 2014 |
Revlon's #GoBold | Self - Host | 2014 |
It Got Better | Self | 2014 |
Carl[a] | Cinnamon | 2014 |
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | Self - Guest | 2014 |
Faking It | Margot | 2014 |
Gay Positive | Self | 2014 |
Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self - Guest | 2014 |
A World of Dreams: Voices from the Out100 | Self | 2013 |
The Blacklist | Dr. Laken Perillos | 2013 |
Celebrity Page | Self | 2013 |
36 Saints | Genesuis | 2013 |
TakePart Live | Self - Guest | 2013 |
The Real | Self | 2013 |
Hollywood Game Night | Self - Celebrity Player | 2013 |
Orange Is the New Black | Sophia Burset | 2013 |
The Mindy Project | Cousin Sheena, Sheena (voice), Sheena | 2012 |
The Exhibitionists | Blithe Stargazer | 2012 |
Katie | Self - Guest | 2012 |
Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell | Self - Guest | 2012 |
Musical Chairs | Chantelle | 2012 |
CBS This Morning | Self - Guest | 2012 |
Project Runway All Stars | Self - Guest Judge | 2012 |
The Chew | Herself - Guest | 2011 |
Conan | Herself - Guest | 2010 |
The Talk | Self - Guest, Self | 2010 |
Undateable | Herself | 2010 |
Transform Me | Self | 2010 |
Who Do You Think You Are? | Self - Actress, Self | 2010 |
Talk Stoop | Self - Guest | 2009 |
Bored to Death | Transexual Prostitute | 2009 |
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self | 2009 |
RuPaul's Drag Race | Self | 2009 |
I Want to Work for Diddy | Self | 2008 |
The Wendy Williams Show | Self - Guest | 2008 |
Chelsea Lately | Herself - Guest | 2007 |
Access Hollywood | Herself | 2006 |
Rachael Ray | Self - Guest | 2006 |
America's Got Talent | Self - Guest Judge | 2006 |
Project Runway | Self - Guest Judge | 2004 |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Herself - Guest, Herself | 2003 |
Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Herself - Guest | 2003 |
Fashion Police | Self - Guest | 2002 |
Curb Your Enthusiasm | Laverne Cox | 2000 |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Candace | 1999 |
The View | Herself - Guest Co-Hostess, Herself - Guest, Herself | 1997 |
The Daily Show | Self - Guest, Self | 1996 |
Extra with Billy Bush | Self (archive footage), Self | 1994 |
Law & Order | Minnie | 1990 |
Inside Edition | Self | 1988 |
Entertainment Tonight | Self | 1981 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Disclosure | 2020 |
Glam Masters | 2018 |
Free CeCe! | 2016 |
The T Word | 2014 |
Transform Me | 2010 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2020 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
2019 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
2017 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
2014 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | Nominated |