Laverne Cox

Actor

Born: May 29, 1972 (age 54)
From: 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, 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…

Filmography (36)

Animal Farm (2026)
Snowball (voice)
Outcome (2026)
Virginia Allen-Green
The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship - A Special Edition of 20/20 (2025)
Self
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025)
Stacy
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint (2025)
Self
Heightened Scrutiny (2025)
Self
Uglies (2024)
Dr. Cable
The Stroll (2023)
Self (archive footage)
Power of Women: The Changemakers (2022)
Self
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter (2022)
Self
Jolt (2021)
Detective Nevin
The Normal Heart (2021)
Bad Hair (2021)
Virgie
Senior Entourage (2021)
Laverne
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Gail
Disclosure (2020)
Self - Actress
Charlie's Angels (2019)
Bomb Instructor
Savage X Fenty Show (2019)
Self
Can You Keep a Secret? (2019)
Cybill
We Won't Be Erased (2018)
Self
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom (2018)
Narrator (voice)
Freak Show (2018)
Felicia Watts
Gavin Grimm vs. (2017)
Self
Time Marches Forward & So Do We (2017)
Narrator (voice)
The Trans List (2016)
Self
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016)
Dr. Frank-N-Furter
Free CeCe! (2016)
Herself
Grandma (2015)
Deathy
The T Word (2014)
Director
Grand Street (2014)
Chardonnay