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Laverne Cox

29 May, 1972 in Mobile, Alabama, USA

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.

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The View
45% (1997)
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Law & Order
74% (1990)
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Faking It
67% (2014)
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The View
45% (1997)
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Doubt
44% (2017)
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The Oscars
70% (1953)
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Password
58% (2022)