Laverne Cox
May 29, 1972 (52 years old) in Mobile, Alabama, USA
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
Credits
- 2025 · Outcome as
- 2024 · Uglies as Dr. Cable
- 2023 · The Stroll as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Power of Women: The Changemakers as Self
- 2022 · Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter as Self
- 2022 · The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
- 2022 · If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox as Host - Self
- 2022 · Password as Self - Celebrity Guest
- 2022 · Inventing Anna as Kacy Duke
- 2021 · Jolt as Detective Nevin
- 2021 · The Normal Heart as
- 2021 · Bad Hair as Virgie
- 2021 · Senior Entourage as Laverne
- 2021 · Amend: The Fight for America as Self
- 2021 · Celebrity Wheel of Fortune as Self - Contestant
- 2020 · Promising Young Woman as Gail
- 2020 · Disclosure as Self - Actress
- 2020 · Bottomless Brunch at Colman's as Self
- 2020 · Visible: Out on Television as Self
- 2020 · Awkwafina is Nora From Queens as God (voice)
- 2019 · Charlie's Angels as Bomb Instructor
- 2019 · Savage X Fenty Show as Self
- 2019 · A Little Late with Lilly Singh as Self
- 2019 · Can You Keep a Secret? as Cybill
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as
- 2019 · A Black Lady Sketch Show as Kiana
- 2019 · Weird City as Liquia
- 2018 · We Won't Be Erased as
- 2018 · Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler as Self
- 2018 · The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Freak Show as Felicia Watts
- 2017 · Drop the Mic as Self
- 2017 · Gavin Grimm vs. as Self
- 2017 · Time Marches Forward & So Do We as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · Doubt as Cameron Wirth
- 2016 · The Trans List as Self
- 2016 · Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party as
- 2016 · The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
- 2016 · Match Game as Self - Panelist
- 2016 · To Tell the Truth as Self - Panelist
- 2016 · Free CeCe as Herself
- 2015 · Grandma as Deathy
- 2015 · Lip Sync Battle as Self
- 2015 · Lip Sync Battle as Herself
- 2014 · The T Word as Herself
- 2014 · Trailblazer Honors as Self - Honoree
- 2014 · Grand Street as Chardonnay
- 2014 · Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
- 2014 · Faking It as Margot
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · The Blacklist as Dr. Laken Perillos
- 2013 · Orange Is the New Black as Sophia Burset
- 2012 · The Mindy Project as Sheena
- 2012 · The Exhibitionists as Blithe Stargazer
- 2012 · Musical Chairs as Chantelle
- 2011 · Carl(a) as Cinnamon
- 2010 · Down This Road as Bartender
- 2010 · Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · RuPaul's Drag Race as Self
- 2009 · Uncle Stephanie as Stephanie
- 2004 · Project Runway as Self - Guest Judge
- 2000 · Curb Your Enthusiasm as Laverne Cox
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Candayce
- 1997 · The View as Self - Guest
- 1997 · The View as Self - Guest Co-Host
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1990 · Law & Order as Minnie
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1984 · MTV Video Music Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1959 · The Grammy Awards as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self