
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1972-05-29
Place of Birth
Mobile, Alabama, USA
Laverne Cox
Biography
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.
Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Candayce

Promising Young Woman
as Gail

The Blacklist
as Dr. Laken Perillos

Charlie's Angels
as Bomb Instructor

Orange Is the New Black
as Sophia Burset

Jolt
as Detective Nevin

Can You Keep a Secret?
as Cybill

Curb Your Enthusiasm
as Laverne Cox

Uglies
as Dr. Cable

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
as Self