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name: "Laverne Cox"
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born: "29 May 1972"
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# Laverne Cox

Actor. Born 29 May 1972 in Mobile, Alabama, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 May 1972, Mobile, Alabama, USA
- **Primetime Emmy Awards:** 1 Emmy nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverne_Cox, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6502596, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1209545/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1298360

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Promising Young Woman*](https://film.one/film/promising-young-woman.md) (72)

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## Biography

Laverne Cox is an American actor. Born on 29 May 1972 in Mobile, Alabama, Cox trained in dance at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and Marymount Manhattan College.

Cox rose to prominence playing Sophia Burset in the series *Orange Is the New Black* (2013–2019). She appeared as Gail in the film *Promising Young Woman* (2020) and has had roles in *Charlie's Angels* (2019), *The Blacklist* (2013) and *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999).

In 2014 Cox became the first transgender person nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category. She won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2015 as executive producer of *Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, screenrant.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Promising Young Woman* (2020), Fi1m 72, as Gail — [page](https://film.one/film/promising-young-woman.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Animal Farm* (2026), as Snowball (voice)
- *Outcome* (2026), as Virginia Allen-Green
- *A Very Jonas Christmas Movie* (2025), as Stacy
- *Clean Slate* (2025), series, as Desiree · Executive Producer, Story, Creator
- *Heightened Scrutiny* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Uglies* (2024), as Dr. Cable
- *Inventing Anna* (2022), series, as Kacy Duke
- *Jolt* (2021), as Detective Nevin
- *The Normal Heart* (2021), Actor
- *Bad Hair* (2021), as Virgie
- *Senior Entourage* (2021), as Laverne
- *Promising Young Woman* (2020), as Gail — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/promising-young-woman.md)
- *Disclosure* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens* (2020), series, as God (voice)
- *Charlie's Angels* (2019), as Bomb Instructor
- *Can You Keep a Secret?* (2019), as Cybill
- *A Black Lady Sketch Show* (2019), series, as Kiana
- *Weird City* (2019), series, as Liquia
- *The Advocate Celebrates 50 Years: A Long Road to Freedom* (2018), as Narrator (voice)
- *Freak Show* (2018), as Felicia Watts
- *Time Marches Forward & So Do We* (2017), as Narrator (voice)
- *Doubt* (2017), series, as Cameron Wirth
- *The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again* (2016), as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
- *Grandma* (2015), as Deathy
- *The T Word* (2014), Executive Producer, Director
- *Grand Street* (2014), as Chardonnay
- *Faking It* (2014), series, as Margot
- *The Blacklist* (2013), series, as Dr. Laken Perillos
- *Orange Is the New Black* (2013), series, as Sophia Burset — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/orange-is-the-new-black.md)
- *The Mindy Project* (2012), series, as Sheena
- *The Exhibitionists* (2012), as Blithe Stargazer
- *Musical Chairs* (2012), as Chantelle
- *Carl(a)* (2011), as Cinnamon
- *Down This Road* (2010), as Bartender
- *Uncle Stephanie* (2009), as Stephanie
- *Curb Your Enthusiasm* (2000), series, as Laverne Cox — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/curb-your-enthusiasm.md)
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Candayce
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Minnie — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *Soapbox*, as Executive Producer

## Gallery

- ![Laverne Cox in New York City for the movie The Apprentice. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/1253188/gallery-84802bd9e907.jpg) Laverne Cox in New York City for the movie The Apprentice. (2024) — Jay Dixit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Laverne_Cox_at_%22The_Apprentice%22_in_NYC_01_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Laverne Cox in New York City for the movie The Apprentice. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/1253188/gallery-12df10455008.jpg) Laverne Cox in New York City for the movie The Apprentice. (2024) — Jay Dixit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Laverne_Cox_at_%22The_Apprentice%22_in_NYC_01.jpg/1280px-Laverne_Cox_at_%22The_Apprentice%22_in_NYC_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Laverne Cox](https://film.one/media/person/1253188/gallery-423631a0860b.jpg) Laverne Cox — Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Laverne_Cox_at_Paley_Fest_Orange_Is_The_New_Black.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Laverne Cox on the red carpet at the Citi/AAdvantage MasterCard Priceless Access Performance with Justin Timberlake on Thursday, July 10th. (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/1253188/gallery-f6920899af74.jpg) Laverne Cox on the red carpet at the Citi/AAdvantage MasterCard Priceless Access Performance with Justin Timberlake on Thursday, July 10th. (2014) — Sachyn Mital, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Laverne_Cox_by_Sachyn_Mital.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Laverne Cox](https://film.one/media/person/1253188/gallery-eaff3be8204e.jpg) Laverne Cox — Image via TMDB
- ![Laverne Cox](https://film.one/media/person/1253188/gallery-56bd58272949.jpg) Laverne Cox — Image via TMDB
- ![Cox at the 2014 GLAAD Media Awards](https://film.one/media/person/1253188/gallery-9c7da45230d1.jpg) Cox at the 2014 GLAAD Media Awards — Greg Hernandez, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Laverne_Cox_2014.jpg/1280px-Laverne_Cox_2014.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Laverne Cox, special guest at the Trans March in San Francisco, June 26, 2015.](https://film.one/media/person/1253188/gallery-53a09f5f8bb5.jpg) Laverne Cox, special guest at the Trans March in San Francisco, June 26, 2015. — Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Laverne_Cox_at_SF_Trans_March_20150626-5862.jpg/1280px-Laverne_Cox_at_SF_Trans_March_20150626-5862.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Primetime Emmy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2014: Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (nominated), for *Orange Is the New Black*

### Other awards — 1 won

- GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award 2014: GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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