Laverne Cox

Personal Info

Birthday

May 29, 1972

(53 years old)

Place of Birth

Mobile, Alabama, USA

Laverne Cox

Biography

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.

Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order

The Blacklist

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Orange Is the New Black

The Mindy Project

Faking It

Inventing Anna

Filmography

2025
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
as Self
Animal Farm
as Snowball (voice)
Heightened Scrutiny
as Self
2024
Uglies
as Dr. Cable
2023
The Stroll
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Power of Women: The Changemakers
as Self
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
as Self
2021
Jolt
as Detective Nevin
Bad Hair
as Virgie
Senior Entourage
as Laverne
2020
Promising Young Woman
as Gail
Disclosure
as Self - Actress
2019
Charlie's Angels
as Bomb Instructor
Savage X Fenty Show
as Self
Can You Keep a Secret?
as Cybill
2018
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
as Narrator (voice)
Freak Show
as Felicia Watts
2017
Gavin Grimm vs.
as Self
Time Marches Forward & So Do We
as Narrator (voice)
2016
The Trans List
as Self
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
Free CeCe
as Herself
2015
Grandma
as Deathy
2014
The T Word
as Herself
Grand Street
as Chardonnay
2012
The Exhibitionists
as Blithe Stargazer
Musical Chairs
as Chantelle
2011
Carl(a)
as Cinnamon
2010
Down This Road
as Bartender
2009
Uncle Stephanie
as Stephanie