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Laverne Cox
1 FOLLOWER • 36 CREDITS • MAY 29, 1972 • 52
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.
Known For
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Law & Order
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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The Oscars
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The Daily Show
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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The Blacklist
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Orange Is the New Black
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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RuPaul's Drag Race
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Project Runway
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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The Grammy Awards
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
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Who Do You Think You Are?
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Lip Sync Battle
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Curb Your Enthusiasm
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A Little Late with Lilly Singh
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MTV Video Music Awards
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Faking It
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Password
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Awkwafina is Nora From Queens
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Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
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A Black Lady Sketch Show
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The Mindy Project
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Charlie's Angels
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Amend: The Fight for America
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Inventing Anna
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Visible: Out On Television
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Bad Hair
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Promising Young Woman
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Jolt
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Grandma
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Doubt
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
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If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox
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