Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
5/29/1972
Place of Birth
Mobile, Alabama, USA
Laverne Cox
Biography
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 ...
Known For
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
as Stacy
The Stroll
as Self (archive footage)
Promising Young Woman
as Gail
Bad Hair
as Virgie
Uglies
as Dr. Cable
Grandma
as Deathy
Can You Keep a Secret?
as Cybill
Musical Chairs
as Chantelle
Jolt
as Detective Nevin
Freak Show
as Felicia Watts
Disclosure
as Self - Actress
Charlie's Angels
as Bomb Instructor
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
Animal Farm
as Snowball (voice)
Gavin Grimm vs.
as Self
Grand Street
as Chardonnay
The Exhibitionists
as Blithe Stargazer
Heightened Scrutiny
as Self
Senior Entourage
as Laverne
Senior Entourage
as Self