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Laverne Cox
Mobile, Alabama, USA
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, bec…
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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 to play a transgender series regularly on U.S. broadcast TV, as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt. Cox appeared as a contestant on the first season of VH1's reality show I Want to Work for Diddy and co-produced and co-hosted the VH1 makeover television series TRANSform Me. In April 2014, Cox was honoured by GLAAD with its Stephen F. Kolzak Award for advocating for the transgender community. In June 2014, Cox became the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine. Cox is the first transgender person to appear on the cover of a Cosmopolitan magazine, with her February 2018 cover on the South African edition. She is also the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laverne Cox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Animal Farm
Movie Snowball (voice)
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2026
Outcome
Movie Virginia Allen-Green
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2025
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Movie Stacy
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2025
Celebrity Weakest Link
TV show Self - Contestant
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2025
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
Movie Self
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2025
Outlaws with TS Madison
TV show
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2025
Clean Slate
TV show Desiree
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2025
Heightened Scrutiny
Movie Self
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2024
Uglies
Movie Dr. Cable
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2023
The Stroll
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Movie Self
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2022
Power of Women: The Changemakers
Movie Self
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV show Self
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox
TV show Host - Self
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2022
Password
TV show Self - Celebrity Guest
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2022
Inventing Anna
TV show Kacy Duke
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2021
Jolt
Movie Detective Nevin
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2021
The Normal Heart
Movie
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2021
Bad Hair
Movie Virgie
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2021
Senior Entourage
Movie Laverne
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2021
Amend: The Fight for America
TV show Self
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2021
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
TV show Self - Contestant
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2020
Promising Young Woman
Movie Gail
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2020
Disclosure
Movie Self - Actress
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2020
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
TV show Self
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2020
Visible: Out on Television
TV show Self
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2020
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
TV show God (voice)
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2019
Charlie's Angels
Movie Bomb Instructor
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2019
Savage X Fenty Show
Movie Self
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2019
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
TV show Self
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2019
Can You Keep a Secret?
Movie Cybill
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
A Black Lady Sketch Show
TV show Kiana
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2019
Weird City
TV show Liquia
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2018
We Won't Be Erased
Movie Self
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2018
Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
TV show Self
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2018
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2018
Freak Show
Movie Felicia Watts
