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Laverne Cox 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 openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in any 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 openly transgender woman to win the award. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt.
Birth Name
Roderick Laverne Cox
Born
Monday, 29 May 1972
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Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
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| Uglies | 2024 | |
| The Stroll | Self (archive footage) | 2023 |
| Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field | Self | 2023 |
| Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music & Laughter | Self | 2022 |
| The Jennifer Hudson Show | Self - Guest | 2022 |
| If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox | Self | 2022 |
| Pride of Stage and Screen | Self | 2022 |
| Inventing Anna | Kacy Duke | 2022 |
| Framing Agnes | Self | 2022 |
| Jolt | Detective Nevin | 2021 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
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Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox | 2022 |
| Disclosure | 2020 |
| Glam Masters | 2018 |
| Free CeCe! | 2016 |
| The T Word | 2014 |
| Transform Me | 2010 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
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| 2020 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
| 2019 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
| 2017 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
| 2014 | Emmy | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | Nominated |
