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Laverne Cox

Highest Rated: 98% Disclosure (2020)

Lowest Rated: 16% Uglies (2024)

Birthday: May 29, 1972

Birthplace: Mobile, Alabama, USA

Laverne Cox was a female transgender actor known as much for her powerful acting ability as for her role as a movement spokeswoman. Her breakthrough role came on Netflix's female prison drama series "Orange is the New Black" (2013-), in which she played transgender prison inmate Sophia Burset, although she also appeared in the series "Law & Order" (NBC 1990-2010) and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC 1999- ). She got her break as the first transgender contestant on Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' reality television show "I Want to Work For Diddy" (VH1 2008-2010), leading to a series of her own reality production "TRANSform Me" (VH1 2010). Cox grew up in Mobile, Alabama, and was the subject of bullying and discrimination because of her sexuality. At this time her twin brother, the singer known as M. Lamar, was a constant companion to her. He went on to play the flashback, pre-gender swap version of Sophia as a firefighter who steals credit cards to fund his swap in "Orange is the New Black," in an episode directed by Jodie Foster. Having lived openly as a woman since the late 1990s while a student at Marymount Manhattan College in New York, Cox took the decision to step away from reality television and work exclusively as an actor following "TRANSform Me." She also wrote for the Huffington Post on transgender issues. Her film work included supporting roles in Susan Seidelman's dance drama "Musical Chairs" (2012) and Paul Weitz's comedy-drama "Grandma" opposite Lily Tomlin. In 2016, she starred as Dr. Frank N. Furter in the TV musical "The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again" (Fox 2016). The following year, Cox co-starred in legal drama "Doubt" (CBS 2017) and appeared in the Trudie Styler-directed film "Freak Show" (2017).

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Highest rated movies

98% 87% Disclosure
Watchlist
91% 67% Grandma
Watchlist
90% 87% Promising Young Woman Watchlist 62% 40% Bad Hair Watchlist 54% 71% Freak Show Watchlist 40% 38% Jolt Watchlist
37% 78% Musical Chairs
Watchlist
30% 35% Can You Keep a Secret? Watchlist
29% 25% The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
Watchlist
16% 43% Uglies Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
16% 43% Uglies Dr. Cable (Character) - 2024
40% 38% Jolt Detective Nevin (Character) - 2021
90% 87% Promising Young Woman Gail (Character) $6.4M 2020
62% 40% Bad Hair Virgie (Character) - 2020
98% 87% Disclosure Unknown (Character),
Executive Producer
- 2020
30% 35% Can You Keep a Secret? Cybill (Character) - 2019
54% 71% Freak Show Felicia Watts (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Free CeCe Executive Producer - 2016
29% 25% The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again Unknown (Character) - 2016
91% 67% Grandma Deathy (Character) $7.0M 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Exhibitionists Blithe Stargazer (Character) - 2012
No Score Yet 92% Carl(a) Cinnamon (Character) - 2011
37% 78% Musical Chairs Chantelle (Character) $31.3K 2011

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 35% Password Self 2024
No Score Yet 55% The Kelly Clarkson Show Guest 2020 2023
91% 79% The Blacklist Dr. Laken Perillos (Guest Star) 2021 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet If We're Being Honest With Laverne Cox Host 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Jennifer Hudson Show Guest 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Red Carpet Rundown Host 2022
No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ellen DeGeneres Show Guest 2016 2018 2021-2022
64% 38% Inventing Anna Kacy Duke (Character) 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Celebrity Wheel of Fortune Guest 2022
No Score Yet 12% The View Guest 2014 2017 2020-2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet The School of Greatness With Lewis Howes Guest 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Talk Guest 2015-2017 2020-2021
82% 16% A Little Late With Lilly Singh Guest 2021
No Score Yet 42% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guest 2016 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen Guest 2014-2015 2018-2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hollywood Game Night Guest 2016 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Drop the Mic Contestant 2019
86% No Score Yet Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party Guest 2018
No Score Yet 29% Unapologetic With Aisha Tyler Guest 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet To Tell the Truth Guest 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Match Game Guest 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Who Do You Think You Are? Unknown (Guest Star) 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Glam Masters Host,
Co-Executive Producer
2018
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2014-2015 2017-2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rachael Ray Guest 2017-2018
55% 76% Doubt Cameron Wirth (Character) 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet America's Got Talent Guest 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Chew Guest 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Harry Guest 2017
No Score Yet 18% The Late Late Show With James Corden Guest 2015-2017
No Score Yet 50% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lip Sync Battle Contestant 2016
90% 82% Orange Is the New Black Sophia Burset (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star)
2013-2016
86% 83% The Mindy Project Unknown (Guest Voice),
Unknown (Guest Star)
2015
No Score Yet 81% Last Week Tonight With John Oliver Herself (Guest Star) 2015
No Score Yet 46% Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce Unknown (Guest Star) 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Project Runway All Stars Unknown (Guest Star) 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet 106 & Park Unknown (Character),
Guest
2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fashion Police Guest 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wendy Williams Show Guest 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell Guest 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet TRANSform Me Self 2010