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Laverne Cox
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 in 2014 the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, and the first to be nominated for any Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outs…
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entertainment · American actress and LGBTQ advocate (born 1972) · film producer · actor · television actor · LGBTQ rights activist · film actor · television producer · also Laverne Cox, Cox
Born 29 May 1972 · Q6502596
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All over the country, trans women are targeted simply for being who they are. Laws like this manifestation law really support systematically the idea that girls like me, girls like me and Monica, are less than [others] in this country.
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2026· 8 entries
“All over the country, trans women are targeted simply for being who they are. Laws like this manifestation law really support systematically the idea that girls like me, girls like me and Monica, are less than [others] in this country.”
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2024· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “On June 9, 2014, actor Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of Time magazine in an issue titled "The Transgender Tipping Point."” True.
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Cox competed in season twelve of The Masked Singer as "Chess Piece" where Nikki Glaser (who performed "Snowstorm" in season eight) served as her Mask Ambassador
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2017· 4 entries
For a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role in Orange Is the New Black
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Became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on U
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Cox began her role as transgender attorney Cameron Wirth on Doubt on CBS
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Cox collaborated with the ACLU, Zackary Drucker, Molly Crabapple, and Kim Boekbinder, in making a video about transgender history and resistance, called "Time Marches Forward & So Do We", which Cox narrated
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2015· 2 entries
Cox won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as Executive Producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word
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Won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, making her the first trans woman to win the award
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2014· 5 entries
Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, an hour-long documentary executive-produced and narrated by Cox, premiered on MTV and Logo simultaneously
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Awarded GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award (2014).
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Against a Phoenix, Arizona, law which allows police to arrest anyone suspected of "manifesting prostitution", and which she feels targets transgender women of color, following the conviction of activist (and transgender
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Cox became the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category: Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Sophia Burset in Orange Is the New Black
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The first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, and the first to be nominated for any Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990
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2013· 1 entry
Cox began her recurring role in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black as Sophia Burset, a trans woman sent to prison for credit-card fraud
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2009· 1 entry
Cox accepted the award at the ceremony, giving a speech described by the San Francisco Sentinel as "among the most poignant because [it] reminded us how important it is to tell our stories, all of our stories
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1972· 1 entry
Born 1972-05-29.
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