Laverne Cox (born May 29, 1972) is an LGBT activist and actress from the United States. With her role as Sophia Burset on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, she became the first transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy Award in any acting category and the first since composer Angela Morley in 1990. She became the first transgender woman to win a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word in 2015. As Cameron Wirth on CBS’s Doubt in 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on US broadcast television.
Cox co-produced and co-hosted the VH1 makeover television series TRANSform Me and was a competitor on the first season of VH1’s reality show I Want to Work for Diddy. Cox received the Stephen F. Kolzak Award from GLAAD in April 2014 for her efforts as a transgender rights advocate. Cox made history as the first transgender person to grace the cover of Time magazine in June 2014. In addition, Cox is the first transgender person to be featured on the cover of a Cosmopolitan magazine, appearing on the South African version in February 2018. She is also the first transgender person to have a Madame Tussauds wax figure of herself.
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