Laverne Cox
Birthday: 1972-05-29 | Place of Birth: Mobile, Alabama, USALaverne 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
Acting
Role
as Kacy Duke
as Detective Nevin
as Virgie
as Gail
as Self
as Self - Actress
as Cybill
as Self
as Cameron Wirth
as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
as Deathy
