Overview
Laverne Cox
Known For
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
Drag Race star Peppermint takes center stage in this up...
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
The one-night-only celebration honoring the life and legacy of the...
Power of Women: The Changemakers
Presents a intimate group of philanthropic women honored by Lifetime...
If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox
Host Laverne Cox dives into powerful conversations with today's most...
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.