1972-05-29 Mobile, Alabama, USA
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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The Stroll | Self (archive footage) | 2023-01-23 |
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Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter | Self | 2022-09-22 |
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Power of Women: The Changemakers | Self | 2022-09-22 |
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Senior Entourage | Laverne | 2021-05-03 |
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The Normal Heart | 2021-05-08 | |
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Bad Hair | Virgie | 2021-05-05 |
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Jolt | Detective Nevin | 2021-07-15 |
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Promising Young Woman | Gail | 2020-12-13 |
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Disclosure | Self - Actress | 2020-06-19 |
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Charlie's Angels | Bomb Instructor | 2019-11-14 |
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Savage X Fenty Show | Self | 2019-09-20 |
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Can You Keep a Secret? | Cybill | 2019-09-13 |
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Freak Show | Felicia Watts | 2018-01-12 |
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The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom | Narrator (voice) | 2018-03-01 |
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We Won't Be Erased | 2018-11-22 | |
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Gavin Grimm vs. | Herself | 2017-09-21 |
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Time Marches Forward & So Do We | Narrator | 2017-08-10 |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again | Dr. Frank-N-Furter | 2016-10-20 |
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Free CeCe | Herself | 2016-06-03 |
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The Trans List | Herself | 2016-12-05 |
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Grandma | Deathy | 2015-06-04 |
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Grand Street | Chardonnay | 2014-05-02 |
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The T Word | Herself | 2014-10-17 |
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Musical Chairs | Chantelle | 2012-03-23 |
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The Exhibitionists | Blithe Stargazer | 2012-09-22 |
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Carl(a) | Cinnamon | 2011-10-10 |
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Down This Road | Bartender | 2010-04-20 |
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Uncle Stephanie | Stephanie | 2009-01-02 |
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