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. 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.

Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order

The Blacklist

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Daily Show

The Daily Show

Late Night with Seth Meyers

All Movies (37)

• Animal Farm2026 · as Snowball (voice)
• Outcome2026 · as Virginia Allen-Green
• The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship -- A Special Edition of 20/202025 · as Self
• A Very Jonas Christmas Movie2025 · as Stacy
• A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint2025 · as Self
• Heightened Scrutiny2025 · as Self
• Uglies2024 · as Dr. Cable
• The Stroll2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Power of Women: The Changemakers2022 · as Self
• Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter2022 · as Self
• Jolt2021 · as Detective Nevin
• The Normal Heart2021
• Bad Hair2021 · as Virgie
• Senior Entourage2021 · as Laverne
• Senior Entourage2021 · as Self
• Promising Young Woman2020 · as Gail
• Disclosure2020 · as Self - Actress
• Charlie's Angels2019 · as Bomb Instructor
• Savage X Fenty Show2019 · as Self
• Can You Keep a Secret?2019 · as Cybill
• We Won't Be Erased2018 · as Self
• The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom2018 · as Narrator (voice)
• Freak Show2018 · as Felicia Watts
• Gavin Grimm vs.2017 · as Self
• Time Marches Forward & So Do We2017 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Trans List2016 · as Self
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again2016 · as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
• Free CeCe!2016 · as Herself
• Grandma2015 · as Deathy
• The T Word2014 · as Herself
• Grand Street2014 · as Chardonnay
• The Exhibitionists2012 · as Blithe Stargazer
• Musical Chairs2012 · as Chantelle
• Carl(a)2011 · as Cinnamon
• Down This Road2010 · as Bartender
• Uncle Stephanie2009 · as Stephanie
• Soapbox—

All TV Shows (53)

• Celebrity Weakest Link2025 · as Self - Contestant
• Clean Slate2025 · as Desiree
• The Jennifer Hudson Show2022 · as Self
• Sherri2022 · as Self - Guest
• If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox2022 · as Host - Self
• Password2022 · as Self - Celebrity Guest
• Inventing Anna2022 · as Kacy Duke
• Amend: The Fight for America2021 · as Self
• Celebrity Wheel of Fortune2021 · as Self - Contestant
• Bottomless Brunch at Colman's2020 · as Self
• Visible: Out on Television2020 · as Self
• Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens2020 · as God (voice)
• A Little Late with Lilly Singh2019 · as Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show2019 · as Self
• A Black Lady Sketch Show2019 · as Kiana
• Weird City2019 · as Liquia
• Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler2018 · as Self
• Drop the Mic2017 · as Self
• Drop the Mic2017
• Doubt2017 · as Cameron Wirth
• Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party2016
• The $100,000 Pyramid2016 · as Self
• Match Game2016 · as Self - Panelist
• To Tell the Truth2016 · as Self - Panelist
• Celebrity Family Feud2015 · as Self - Contestant
• Lip Sync Battle2015 · as Self
• Trailblazer Honors2014 · as Self - Honoree
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver2014 · as Self
• Faking It2014 · as Margot
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
• The Blacklist2013 · as Dr. Laken Perillos
• Orange Is the New Black2013 · as Sophia Burset
• The Mindy Project2012 · as Sheena
• Who Do You Think You Are?2010 · as Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen2009 · as Self - Guest
• RuPaul's Drag Race2009 · as Self
• Project Runway2004 · as Self - Guest Judge
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Guest
• Curb Your Enthusiasm2000 · as Laverne Cox
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999 · as Candayce
• The View1997 · as Self - Guest
• The View1997 · as Self - Guest Co-Host
• The View1997 · as Self
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self - Guest
• Law & Order1990 · as Minnie
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988 · as Self - Guest
• MTV Video Music Awards1984 · as Self - Presenter
• People's Choice Awards1975 · as Self - Presenter
• American Music Awards1974 · as Self - Presenter
• The Grammys1959 · as Self
• The Oscars1953 · as Self