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Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Orange Is the New Black. For playing "Sophia Burset" GLAAD Media Awards. 2014 Winner Stephen F. Kolzak Award.
- May 29, 1972
Laverne Cox (born May 29, 1972) is an American actress and LGBT advocate. [3] [4] [5] She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black , becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, [6] [7] and the first to be nominated for an Emmy ...
Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBTQ+ advocate. She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, becoming the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Emmy Award in any acting category, and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990.
May 13, 2022 · Best Known For: Dancer and actress Laverne Cox became one of the stars of 'Orange Is the New Black' and the first openly transgender person in history to receive an Emmy nomination.
She was named one of Glamour magazine's 2014 Women of the Year. Laverne also proudly holds two SAG Awards winning them with her Orange Is The New Black cast mates. Laverne has been one of the faces of Beyonce's athleisure line, Ivy Park.
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May 10, 2024 · She notably was the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category (in 2014 for Orange Is the New Black ), and she was the first transgender person to win (2015) a Daytime Emmy as a producer. Cox was born an identical twin.
Her nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series - for her performance in Orange Is the New Black (2013) - at the 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards makes her the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an acting award in the history of the Emmys.
