Actor

Laverne Cox

1972Mobile, Alabama, USA35 Movies49 TV Shows

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.

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Animal Farm

Outcome

The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship

A Very Jonas Christmas Movie

A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint

Heightened Scrutiny

Uglies

The Stroll

Power of Women: The Changemakers

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

Jolt

The Normal Heart

Bad Hair

Senior Entourage

Promising Young Woman

Disclosure

Charlie's Angels

Savage X Fenty Show

Can You Keep a Secret?

We Won't Be Erased

The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom

Freak Show

Gavin Grimm vs.

Time Marches Forward & So Do We

The Trans List

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again

Free CeCe

Grandma

The T Word

Grand Street

The Exhibitionists

Musical Chairs

Carl(a)

Down This Road

Uncle Stephanie

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Celebrity Weakest Link

Clean Slate

The Jennifer Hudson Show

Sherri

If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox

Password

Inventing Anna

Amend: The Fight for America

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

Bottomless Brunch at Colman's

Visible: Out on Television

Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

A Little Late with Lilly Singh

The Kelly Clarkson Show

A Black Lady Sketch Show

Weird City

Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler

Drop the Mic

Doubt

Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

The $100,000 Pyramid

Match Game

To Tell the Truth

Celebrity Family Feud

Lip Sync Battle

Trailblazer Honors

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Faking It

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Blacklist

Orange Is the New Black

The Mindy Project

Who Do You Think You Are?

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

RuPaul's Drag Race

Project Runway

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The View

The Daily Show