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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:
30
First Appeared:
In the movie Down This Road 2010-04-20
Latest Project:
Movie Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter 2022-09-22
Known For
Poster of Time Marches Forward & So Do We
Poster of Free CeCe
Poster of The T Word
Poster of The Mindy Project
Filmography
Movie Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter Self 2022-09-22
Series Inventing Anna Kacy Duke 2022-02-11
Movie Senior Entourage Laverne 2021-05-03
Movie Jolt Detective Nevin 2021-07-15
Series Visible: Out On Television Self 2020-02-14
Movie Promising Young Woman Gail 2020-12-13
Movie Disclosure Self - Actress 2020-06-19
Series Weird City 2019-02-13
Movie Can You Keep a Secret? Cybill 2019-09-13
Movie Charlie's Angels Bomb Instructor 2019-11-14
Movie Savage X Fenty Show Self 2019-09-20
Movie Freak Show Felicia Watts 2018-01-12
Movie The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom Narrator (voice) 2018-03-01
Movie We Won't Be Erased 2018-11-22
Series Doubt Cameron Wirth 2017-02-15
Movie Time Marches Forward & So Do We Narrator 2017-08-10
Movie The Trans List Herself 2016-12-05
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
Series Lip Sync Battle Unknown 2015-04-02
Movie Grandma Deathy 2015-06-04
Series Faking It Margot 2014-04-22
Movie Grand Street Chardonnay 2014-05-02
Movie The T Word Herself 2014-10-17
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