Laverne Cox
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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Laverne Cox
Filmography
Movies
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15% |
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Uglies | Dr. Cable (Character) | - | 2024 |
40% |
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Jolt | Detective Nevin (Character) | - | 2021 |
90% |
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Promising Young Woman | Gail (Character) | $6.4M | 2020 |
62% |
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Bad Hair | Virgie (Character) | - | 2020 |
98% |
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Disclosure |
Unknown (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2020 |
30% |
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Can You Keep a Secret? | Cybill (Character) | - | 2019 |
54% |
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Freak Show | Felicia Watts (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Free CeCe | Executive Producer | - | 2016 |
29% |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again | Unknown (Character) | - | 2016 |
91% |
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Grandma | Deathy (Character) | $7.0M | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Exhibitionists | Blithe Stargazer (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Carl(a) | Cinnamon (Character) | - | 2011 |
37% |
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Musical Chairs | Chantelle (Character) | $31.3K | 2011 |
TV
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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 | 80% | 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 |