Laverne Cox
Age: N/A | From: Mobile, Alabama, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Mobile, Alabama, USA
Homepage: https://lavernecox.com/
Movie Involvements: 22
TV Involvements: 15
Most Famous Work
Biography
Laverne Cox is an American actress, reality television star, television producer, and LGBT advocate. She became known for her portrayal of Sophia Burset on the Netflix television series Orange Is the New Black, for which she became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the acting category, and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer/musician Angela Morley in 1990. In 2015, she became the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on Doubt on CBS.
Most Famous Work
Law & Order
(1990) Minnie
Project Runway
(2004) Self - Guest Judge
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(1999) Candayce
RuPaul's Drag Race
(2009) Self
The Blacklist
(2013) Dr. Laken Perillos
MTV Video Music Awards
(1984) Self - Presenter
Who Do You Think You Are?
(2010) Self
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
(2021) Self - ContestantActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dr. Cable | |
| 2023 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2022 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Host - Self | ||
| Self - Celebrity Guest | ||
| Kacy Duke | ||
| 2021 | Detective Nevin | |
| N/A | ||
| Virgie | ||
| Laverne | ||
| Self | ||
| Self - Contestant | ||
| 2020 | Gail | |
| Self - Actress | ||
| Self | ||
| God (voice) | ||
| 2019 | Bomb Instructor | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Cybill | ||
| N/A | ||
| Kiana | ||
| Liquia | ||
| 2018 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Felicia Watts | ||
| 2017 | Self | |
| Herself | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Cameron Wirth | ||
| 2016 | Herself | |
| N/A | ||
| Dr. Frank-N-Furter | ||
| Self - Panelist | ||
| Self - Panelist | ||
| Herself | ||
| 2015 | Deathy | |
| Self | ||
| Herself | ||
| 2014 | Herself | |
| Self - Honoree | ||
| Chardonnay | ||
| Self | ||
| Margot | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2013 | Dr. Laken Perillos | |
| Sophia Burset | ||
| 2012 | Sheena | |
| Blithe Stargazer | ||
| Chantelle | ||
| 2011 | Cinnamon | |
| 2010 | Bartender | |
| Self | ||
| 2009 | Self - Guest | |
| Self | ||
| Stephanie | ||
| 2004 | Self - Guest Judge | |
| 2000 | Laverne Cox | |
| 1999 | Candayce | |
| 1997 | Self - Guest | |
| Self - Guest Co-Host | ||
| 1996 | Self | |
| 1990 | Minnie | |
| 1988 | Self - Guest | |
| 1984 | Self - Presenter | |
| 1959 | Self | |
| 1953 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Executive Producer | |
| 2014 | Executive Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |