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.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outcome (2026) | Virginia Allen-Green | - | - |
| 2 | Uglies (2024) | Dr. Cable | 5 | |
| 3 | Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter (2022) | Self | - | - |
| 4 | Jolt (2021) | Detective Nevin | 5.9 | |
| 5 | Bad Hair (2021) | Virgie | 6.5 | |
| 6 | Promising Young Woman (2020) | Gail | 8 | |
| 7 | Disclosure (2020) | Self - Actress | 7.5 | |
| 8 | Charlie's Angels (2019) | Bomb Instructor | 5.8 | |
| 9 | Can You Keep a Secret? (2019) | Cybill | 6.4 | |
| 10 | Savage X Fenty Show (2019) | Self | 7 | |
| 11 | Freak Show (2018) | Felicia Watts | 8 | |
| 12 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016) | Dr. Frank-N-Furter | 6.2 | |
| 13 | Grandma (2015) | Deathy | 7.3 |

