Laverne Cox
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 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 regularly on U.S. broadcast TV, as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt. Cox appeared as a contestant on the first season of VH1's reality show I Want to Work for Diddy and co-produced and co-hosted the VH1 makeover television series TRANSform Me. In April 2014, Cox was honoured by GLAAD with its Stephen F. Kolzak Award for advocating for the transgender community. In June 2014, Cox became the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine. Cox is the first transgender person to appear on the cover of a Cosmopolitan magazine, with her February 2018 cover on the South African edition. She is also the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laverne Cox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Laverne Cox films playing now in Rhodes
Laverne Cox filmography
Animal Farm
as Snowball (voice)
Outcome
as Virginia Allen-Green
Heightened Scrutiny
Executive Producer · as Self
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
as Self
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
as Stacy
The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship -- A Special Edition of 20/20
as Self
Uglies
as Dr. Cable
The Stroll
as Self (archive footage)
Power of Women: The Changemakers
as Self
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
as Self
The Normal Heart
2021
Jolt
as Detective Nevin
Bad Hair
as Virgie
Senior Entourage
as Laverne
Promising Young Woman
as Gail
Disclosure
Executive Producer · as Self - Actress
Can You Keep a Secret?
as Cybill
Savage X Fenty Show
as Self
Charlie's Angels
as Bomb Instructor
Freak Show
as Felicia Watts
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Who is Laverne Cox?+
Laverne Cox is an American actress and producer recognized for her significant contributions to television and film as well as her dedicated advocacy for the transgender community.
What is Laverne Cox known for?+
She is best known for her role as Sophia Burset in the series Orange Is the New Black and for her work as an executive producer on documentary projects including Disclosure and The T Word.
