Cast
Laverne Cox
1972
- Active years (films on this site)
- 2012–2020
- Schools and movements
- American Independent CinemaNew Hollywood
Biography
Laverne Cox 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 in 2014 the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, and the first to be nominated for any 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 regular on U.S. broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt.
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Awards and honours
National / local
- GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award 2014
Directors worked with
3 films on this site
- Musical Chairs 2012 · Susan Seidelman · IMDb 5.9 · Cast
- Grandma 2015 · Paul Weitz · IMDb 6.7 · Cast
- Promising Young Woman 2020 · Emerald Fennell · IMDb 7.5 · Cast