Laverne Cox
Acting
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.
TV Shows(49)
Celebrity Weakest Link
Self - Contestant
2025
Clean Slate
Desiree
2025
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self
2022
Sherri
Self - Guest
2022
If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox
Host - Self
2022
Password
Self - Celebrity Guest
2022
Inventing Anna
Kacy Duke
2022
Amend: The Fight for America
Self
2021
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
Self - Contestant
2021
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
Self
2020
Visible: Out on Television
Self
2020
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
God (voice)
2020
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
Self
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Kiana
2019
Weird City
Liquia
2019
Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler
Self
2018
Drop the Mic
Self
2017
Doubt
Cameron Wirth
2017
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016
The $100,000 Pyramid
Self
2016
Match Game
Self - Panelist
2016
To Tell the Truth
Self - Panelist
2016
Celebrity Family Feud
Self - Contestant
2015
Lip Sync Battle
Self
2015
Trailblazer Honors
Self - Honoree
2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Self
2014
Faking It
Margot
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
The Blacklist
Dr. Laken Perillos
2013
Orange Is the New Black
Sophia Burset
2013
The Mindy Project
Sheena
2012
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
Self
2009
Project Runway
Self - Guest Judge
2004
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Laverne Cox
2000
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Candayce
1999
The View
Self - Guest
1997
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Law & Order
Minnie
1990
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
MTV Video Music Awards
Self - Presenter
1984
People's Choice Awards
Self - Presenter
1975
American Music Awards
Self - Presenter
1974
The Grammys
Self
1959
The Oscars
Self
1953
Movies(36)
Animal Farm
Snowball (voice)
2026
Outcome
Virginia Allen-Green
2026
The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship
Self
2025
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
Stacy
2025
A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
Self
2025
Heightened Scrutiny
Self
2025
Uglies
Dr. Cable
2024
The Stroll
Self (archive footage)
2023
Power of Women: The Changemakers
Self
2022
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Self
2022
Jolt
Detective Nevin
2021
The Normal Heart
2021
Bad Hair
Virgie
2021
Senior Entourage
Laverne
2021
Promising Young Woman
Gail
2020
Disclosure
Self - Actress
2020
Charlie's Angels
Bomb Instructor
2019
Savage X Fenty Show
Self
2019
Can You Keep a Secret?
Cybill
2019
We Won't Be Erased
Self
2018
The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom
Narrator (voice)
2018
Freak Show
Felicia Watts
2018
Gavin Grimm vs.
Self
2017
Time Marches Forward & So Do We
Narrator (voice)
2017
The Trans List
Self
2016
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
Dr. Frank-N-Furter
2016
Free CeCe
Herself
2016
Grandma
Deathy
2015
The T Word
Herself
2014
Grand Street
Chardonnay
2014
The Exhibitionists
Blithe Stargazer
2012
Musical Chairs
Chantelle
2012
Carl(a)
Cinnamon
2011
Down This Road
Bartender
2010
Uncle Stephanie
Stephanie
2009
Soapbox