Laverne Cox

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
May 29, 1972 (53 years old)

Laverne Cox

Known For

A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
1h 20m
Movie 2025

A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint

Drag Race star Peppermint takes center stage in this up close and personal documentary about her journey with fame, identity, and the art of drag. Sharing her story alongside a close network of trans individuals, one of the world’s favorite drag performers takes you inside her rise from humble beginnings to her current reign as outspoken trailblazer for the trans community.

Animal Farm
1h 36m
Movie 2025

Animal Farm

A group of animals rebel against their human owners and take over the farm. Their uprising over, they are presented with a fresh set of challenges under the rule of a cunning pig named Napoleon. It’s a situation that forces them to find the courage to stand up to Napoleon.

Clean Slate
TV Show 2025

Clean Slate

Harry is an old-school car wash owner in Alabama who has a lot of soul searching to do when the child he once called "son" returns after 17 years as a proud trans woman named Desiree. Her homecoming brings together a hilarious cast of friends, coworkers, and love interests as Desiree and Harry try to get it right the second time around.

Heightened Scrutiny
1h 29m
Movie 2025

Heightened Scrutiny

Amid the surge in anti-trans legislation that Chase Strangio battles in the courtroom, he must also fight against media bias, exposing how the narratives in the press influence public perception and the fight for transgender rights.

Uglies
1h 40m
Movie 2024

Uglies

In a futuristic dystopia with enforced beauty standards, a teen awaiting mandatory cosmetic surgery embarks on a journey to find her missing friend.

The Stroll
1h 26m
Movie 2023

The Stroll

The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lovell, who walked “The Stroll” for a decade, reunites her community to recount the violence, policing, homelessness, and gentrification they overcame to build a movement for transgender rights.

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
1h 25m
Movie 2022

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

The one-night-only celebration honoring the life and legacy of the famed producer features intimate conversations, special performances and surprise reunions that pay homage to the man behind some of television’s greatest stories in celebration of his 100th birthday.

Power of Women: The Changemakers
0h 40m
Movie 2022

Power of Women: The Changemakers

Presents a intimate group of philanthropic women honored by Lifetime and Variety as some of the most powerful women working in media and entertainment.

If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox
TV Show 2022

If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox

Host Laverne Cox dives into powerful conversations with today's most influential talent. Laverne helps reveal fresh perspectives, inspiring stories of adversity, and the driving force behind today's most fascinating celebrities.

Inventing Anna
TV Show 2022

Inventing Anna

A journalist with a lot to prove investigates the case of Anna Delvey, the Instagram-legendary German heiress who stole the hearts of New York’s social scene – and stole their money as well.

Biography

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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