Laverne Cox

Actress • Personality

Birth Date: May 29, 1972

Age: 53 years old

Birth Place: Mobile, Alabama

Awards

Laverne Cox is a female transgender actor known as much for her powerful acting ability as for her role as a movement spokeswoman. Her breakthrough role came on Netflix's female prison drama series "Orange is the New Black" (2013-), in which she played transgender prison inmate Sophia Burset, although she also appeared in the series "Law & Order" (NBC 1990-2010) and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC 1999- ).

She got her break as the first transgender contestant on Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' reality television show "I Want to Work For Diddy" (VH1 2008-2010), leading to a series of her own reality production "TRANSform Me" (VH1 2010). Cox grew up in Mobile, Alabama, and was the subject of bullying and discrimination because of her sexuality. At this time her twin brother, the singer known as M. Lamar, was a constant companion to her. He went on to play the flashback, pre-gender swap version of Sophia as a firefighter who steals credit cards to fund his swap in "Orange is the New Black," in an episode directed by Jodie Foster.

Having lived openly as a woman since the late 1990s while a student at Marymount Manhattan College in New York, Cox took the decision to step away from reality television and work exclusively as an actor following "TRANSform Me." She also wrote for the Huffington Post on transgender issues. Her film work included supporting roles in Susan Seidelman's dance drama "Musical Chairs" (2012) and Paul Weitz's comedy-drama "Grandma" opposite Lily Tomlin.

In 2016, she starred as Dr. Frank N. Furter in the TV musical "The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again" (Fox 2016). The following year, Cox co-starred in legal drama "Doubt" (CBS 2017) and appeared in the Trudie Styler-directed film "Freak Show" (2017).

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Laverne Cox

Actress • Personality

Birth Date: May 29, 1972

Age: 53 years old

Birth Place: Mobile, Alabama

Awards

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Clean SlateStream

Clean SlateStream

UgliesStream

Live with Kelly and MarkStream

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

Power of Women: The ChangemakersStream

Sherri

The Jennifer Hudson ShowStream

If We're Being Honest with Laverne CoxStream

If We're Being Honest with Laverne CoxStream

Password

Inventing AnnaStream

CBS Mornings

Culture Q

The School of Greatness With Lewis Howes

Celebrity Wheel of FortuneStream

JoltStream

Variety's Power of Women: Frontline Heroes

Can't Cancel Pride

Bottomless Brunch at Colman's

Promising Young WomanStream

Disclosure

Disclosure

Bad HairStream

Savage X Fenty Show

A Little Late With Lilly Singh

The Kelly Clarkson ShowStream

Access Daily

Queer Icon

Today With Hoda & Jenna

Weird CityStream

Can You Keep a Secret?Stream

SAG Nominations

Today 3rd Hour

A Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years

Unapologetic With Aisha Tyler

Glam Masters

Glam Masters

Access Live

Drop the MicStream

Live with Kelly and Ryan

Red Carpet Rundown

DoubtStream

Freak Show

Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp AgainStream

Harry

The $100,000 PyramidStream

Match GameStream

To Tell the TruthStream

Megyn Kelly Presents

Free CeCe

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again

Absolument trans

The Daily Show with Trevor NoahStream

The Late Show With Stephen ColbertStream

Lip Sync BattleStream

The Late Late Show With James Corden

Grandma

Girlfriends' Guide to DivorceStream

Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word

TransFORUM: The T Word After Show

Last Week Tonight With John OliverStream

Late Night With Seth MeyersStream

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonStream

A World of Dreams: Voices From the Out 100

The BlacklistStream

Take Part Live

The Real

Hollywood Game Night

Orange Is the New BlackStream

Orange Is the New BlackStream

The Mindy ProjectStream