Laverne Cox

Laverne Cox

b. 1972 (age 54) Mobile, Alabama, USA
Actress Writer

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.

Known For

Clean Slate
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★ 6.6
Clean Slate
2025
Musical Chairs
🎞️
★ 5.9
Musical Chairs
2011
Orange Is the New Black
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★ 8.0
Orange Is the New Black
2013
Promising Young Woman
🎞️
★ 7.5
Promising Young Woman
2020

Filmography

A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
🎞️
★ 5.7
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
2025 Actress
Animal Farm
🎞️
★ 2.4
Animal Farm
2025 Actress
Clean Slate
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★ 6.6
Clean Slate
2025 Actress Writer
Heightened Scrutiny
🎞️
★ 7.6
Heightened Scrutiny
2025 Self
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
🎞️
★ 6.8
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
2025 Self
🎬
🎞️
Billboard Women in Music 2025
2025 Self
Uglies
🎞️
★ 4.7
Uglies
2024 Actress
🎬
📺
★ 3.6
The Jason Lee Show
2023 Self
🎬
🎞️
Divas Simply Singing! Raising Health Awareness
2023 Self
Inventing Anna
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★ 6.9
Inventing Anna
2022 Actress
🎬
🎞️
★ 4.4
The 48th Annual People's Choice Awards
2022 Self
If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox
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★ 6.9
If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox
2022 Self
🎬
🎞️
Pride of Stage and Screen
2022 Self
🎬
🎞️
Power of Women: The Changemakers
2022 Self
Jolt
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★ 5.6
Jolt
2021 Actress
Amend: The Fight for America
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★ 7.9
Amend: The Fight for America
2021 Self
🎬
📺
Google TV: Watch with Me
2021 Self
🎬
🎞️
The United States of Elie Tahari
2021 Self
🎬
🎞️
2021 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards
2021 Actress
Promising Young Woman
🎞️
★ 7.5
Promising Young Woman
2020 Actress
Disclosure
🎞️
★ 8.1
Disclosure
2020 Self
🎬
🎞️
★ 7.1
American Music Awards 2020
2020 Self
🎬
🎞️
★ 4.4
BET Awards 2020
2020 Self
🎬
🎞️
OITNB X Color of Change: Reform, Solidarity, Action
2020 Self
Can You Keep a Secret?
🎞️
★ 5.4
Can You Keep a Secret?
2019 Actress
Savage X Fenty Show
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★ 7.4
Savage X Fenty Show
2019 Self
Glam Masters
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★ 4.4
Glam Masters
2018 Self
Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
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★ 6.0
Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
2018 Self
🎬
🎞️
★ 5.2
49th NAACP Image Awards
2018 Self
🎬
📺
★ 7.1
Fearless
2018 Self
🎬
🎞️
Laverne Cox: Making History
2018 Self
🎬
🎞️
Mila Jam: bruised
2018 Actress
Doubt
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★ 5.9
Doubt
2017 Actress
Absolument Trans
🎞️
★ 1.6
Absolument Trans
2017 Self
🎬
🎞️
★ 4.4
The Trustee
2017 Actress
🎬
🎞️
★ 2.4
Essence 10th Anniversary Black Women in Hollywood Awards
2017 Self
Gavin Grimm vs.
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Gavin Grimm vs.
2017 Self
🎬
🎞️
The 69th Annual Directors Guild Awards
2017 Self
The Trans List
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★ 6.6
The Trans List
2016 Self
🎬
🎞️
★ 7.1
Teen Choice Awards 2016
2016 Self
Free CeCe!
🎞️
★ 7.2
Free CeCe!
2016 Self
🎬
🎞️
★ 3.0
Megyn Kelly Presents
2016 Self
Grandma
🎞️
★ 6.7
Grandma
2015 Actress
🎬
🎞️
Secrets of New York Fashion Week
2015 Self
The T Word
🎞️
★ 7.7
The T Word
2014 Self
Gay Positive
🎞️
★ 7.5
Gay Positive
2014 Self
🎬
📺
★ 5.7
It Got Better
2014 Self
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🎞️
2014 Logo Trailblazers
2014 Self
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🎞️
The 25th Annual Glaad Media Awards
2014 Self
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📺
Revlon's #GoBold
2014 Self
A World of Dreams: Voices from the Out100
🎞️
A World of Dreams: Voices from the Out100
2013 Self
The Exhibitionists
🎞️
★ 3.7
The Exhibitionists
2012 Actress
Migraine
🎞️
★ 7.5
Migraine
2012 Actress
Musical Chairs
🎞️
★ 5.9
Musical Chairs
2011 Actress
Carl[a]
🎞️
★ 6.4
Carl[a]
2011 Actress
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📺
Style Exposed
2011 Writer
🎬
📺
★ 7.0
Transform Me
2010 Self
Uncle Stephanie
🎞️
★ 2.4
Uncle Stephanie
2009 Actress
🎬
🎞️
All Night
2008 Actress
🎬
🎞️
Betty Anderson
2000 Actress
🎬
🎞️
Soapbox
Actress
🎬
🎞️
Black is Blue
Actress
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