Laverne CoxΒ (born May 29, 1972) is an American actress andΒ LGBTQ advocate. She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on theΒ NetflixΒ seriesΒ Orange Is the New Black, becoming the firstΒ transgenderΒ person to be nominated for aΒ Primetime Emmy AwardΒ in an acting categoryΒ and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composerΒ Angela MorleyΒ in 1990.Β In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer forΒ Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, making her the firstΒ trans womanΒ to win the award.Β In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regularly on U.S.Β broadcast TV, as Cameron Wirth onΒ CBS'sΒ Doubt.
Cox appeared as a contestant on the first season ofΒ VH1'sΒ reality showΒ I Want to Work for Diddy and co-produced and co-hosted the VH1 makeover television seriesΒ TRANSform Me. In April 2014, Cox was honoured byΒ GLAADΒ with itsΒ Stephen F. Kolzak AwardΒ for advocating for the transgender community.Β In June 2014, Cox became the first transgender person to appear on the cover ofΒ TimeΒ magazine. Cox is the first transgender person to appear on the cover of aΒ Cosmopolitan magazine, with her February 2018 cover on theΒ South AfricanΒ edition. She is also the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself atΒ Madame Tussauds.
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