People
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.
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Outcome | 2025-04-18 |
Uglies as Dr. Cable | 2024-09-12 |
The Stroll as Self (archive footage) | 2023-01-23 |
Power of Women: The Changemakers as Self | 2022-09-22 |
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter as Self | 2022-09-22 |
Jolt as Detective Nevin | 2021-07-15 |
The Normal Heart | 2021-05-08 |
Bad Hair as Virgie | 2021-05-05 |
Senior Entourage as Laverne | 2021-05-03 |
Promising Young Woman as Gail | 2020-12-13 |
Disclosure as Self - Actress | 2020-06-19 |
Charlie's Angels as Bomb Instructor | 2019-11-14 |
Savage X Fenty Show as Self | 2019-09-20 |
Can You Keep a Secret? as Cybill | 2019-09-13 |
We Won't Be Erased | 2018-11-22 |
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom as Narrator (voice) | 2018-03-01 |
Freak Show as Felicia Watts | 2018-01-12 |
Gavin Grimm vs. as Self | 2017-09-21 |
Time Marches Forward & So Do We as Narrator (voice) | 2017-08-10 |
The Trans List as Self | 2016-12-05 |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again as Dr. Frank-N-Furter | 2016-10-20 |
Free CeCe as Herself | 2016-06-03 |
Grandma as Deathy | 2015-06-04 |
The T Word as Herself | 2014-10-17 |
Grand Street as Chardonnay | 2014-05-02 |
The Exhibitionists as Blithe Stargazer | 2012-09-22 |
Musical Chairs as Chantelle | 2012-03-23 |
Carl(a) as Cinnamon | 2011-10-10 |
Down This Road as Bartender | 2010-04-20 |
Uncle Stephanie as Stephanie | 2009-01-02 |