Laverne Cox

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Laverne Cox
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Cox in July 2014
Born (1972-05-29) May 29, 1972 (age 51) [1] [2]
Education
Occupations
  • Actress
  • activist
Years active2000–present
Relatives M Lamar (twin brother)
Website www.lavernecox.com

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 Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. [8] In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, [9] [10] making her the first trans woman to win the award. [9] In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on U.S. broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS 's Doubt . [11]

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Cox appeared as a contestant on the first season of VH1's reality show I Want to Work for Diddy , and co-produced and co-hosted the VH1 makeover television series TRANSform Me . In April 2014, Cox was honored by GLAAD with its Stephen F. Kolzak Award for her work as an advocate for the transgender community. [12] In June 2014, Cox became the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine. [6] [13] [14] Cox is the first transgender person to appear on the cover of a Cosmopolitan magazine, with her February 2018 cover on the South African edition. [15] She is also the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds. [16]

Early life

Cox was born in Mobile, Alabama, [17] and was raised by a single mother and grandmother within the AME Zion church. [18] She has an identical twin brother, M Lamar, [19] who portrayed the pre-transitioning Sophia (as Marcus) in Orange Is the New Black. [20] [21] [22] Cox has stated that she attempted suicide at the age of 11, when she noticed that she had developed feelings for her male classmates and had been bullied for several years for not acting "the way someone assigned male at birth was supposed to act". [18] [23] [24]

She is a graduate of the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, Alabama, where she studied creative writing before switching to dance. [25] She then studied for two years at Indiana University Bloomington [26] before transferring to Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, where she switched from dancing (specifically classical ballet) [27] to acting. [21] [28] During her first season on Orange Is the New Black, she was still appearing at a restaurant on the Lower East Side as a drag queen (where she had applied initially to work as a waitress). [29]

Career

Laverne Cox at PaleyFest 2014 representing Orange is the New Black. Laverne Cox at Paley Fest Orange Is The New Black.jpg
Laverne Cox at PaleyFest 2014 representing Orange is the New Black .

Cox appeared as a contestant on the first season of I Want to Work for Diddy ; afterwards she was approached by VH1 about show ideas. [30] From that came the makeover television series TRANSform Me, which made Cox the first African-American transgender person to produce and star in her own TV show. [31] [32] Both those shows were nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for outstanding reality program, and when Diddy won in 2009, 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." [33] [34] [35] She has also acted in a number of TV shows and films, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , Bored to Death , and Musical Chairs .

In 2013, 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. In that year, she stated, "Sophia is written as a multi-dimensional character who the audience can really empathize with—all of the sudden they're empathizing with a real Trans person. And for Trans folks out there, who need to see representations of people who are like them and of their experiences, that's when it becomes really important." [36] Cox's role in Orange is the New Black provides her a platform to speak on the rights of trans people. [37]

In January 2014, Cox joined trans woman Carmen Carrera on Katie Couric's syndicated show, Katie . Couric referred to transgender people as "transgenders", and after being rebuffed by Carrera on the subject of her surgeries, specifically what genital reconstruction she had done, turned the same question to Cox. Cox responded,

I do feel there is a preoccupation with that. The preoccupation with transition and surgery objectifies trans people. And then we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences. The reality of trans people's lives is that so often we are targets of violence. We experience discrimination disproportionately to the rest of the community. Our unemployment rate is twice the national average; if you are a trans person of color, that rate is four times the national average. The homicide rate is highest among trans women. If we focus on transition, we don't actually get to talk about those things. [38]

News outlets such as Salon , The Huffington Post, and Business Insider covered what was characterized by Salon writer Katie McDonough as Couric's "clueless" and "invasive" line of questioning. [39]

Cox was on the cover of the June 9, 2014, issue of Time and was interviewed for the article "The Transgender Tipping Point" by Katy Steinmetz, which ran in that issue and the title of which was also featured on the cover; this makes Cox the first transgender person on the cover of Time. [13] [40] [41]

Later in 2014, 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. [42] [43] She also appeared in John Legend's video for the song "You & I (Nobody in the World)". [44]

Cox joined a campaign in 2014 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 woman of color) Monica Jones. [45] Cox stated, "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." [45] Later that year the Sylvia Rivera Law Project released a video in which Cox read a letter from transgender inmate Synthia China Blast, addressing common issues faced by trans inmates. [46] But when Cox learned that Blast was found guilty of the 1993 rape and murder of a 13-year-old child, she wrote on her Tumblr, "I was not aware of the charges for which she was convicted. If I had been aware of those charges, I would have never agreed to read the letter." [46]

Cox was featured in the annual "Rebels" issue of V in late 2014. [47] For the issue, V asked celebrities and artists to nominate who they saw as their personal rebels, and Natasha Lyonne nominated Cox. [47] Cox was also on the cover of the October 2014 issue of Essence magazine, along with actresses Alfre Woodard, Nicole Beharie, and Danai Gurira. [48]

On October 17, 2014, Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, an hour-long documentary executive-produced and narrated by Cox, premiered on MTV and Logo simultaneously. [49] That same year, Cox was featured on the fifth anniversary cover of C☆NDY magazine along with 13 other transgender women—Janet Mock, Carmen Carrera, Geena Rocero, Isis King, Gisele Alicea, Leyna Ramous, Dina Marie, Nina Poon, Juliana Huxtable, Niki M'nray, Pêche Di, Carmen Xtravaganza (House of Xtravaganza), and Yasmine Petty. [50]

In 2015, Cox won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as Executive Producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word. [9] [10] This made Cox the first transgender woman to win a Daytime Emmy as an Executive Producer; as well, The T Word is the first trans documentary to win a Daytime Emmy. [9] That year Cox, among others, posed nude for the Allure annual "Nudes" issue, becoming the first transgender actress to do so. [51]

Cox is the cover subject for the June 11, 2015, "totally not-straight issue" of Entertainment Weekly , the first issue of the magazine in 15 years to focus exclusively on gay, lesbian, and transgender entertainment. [52]

In June 2016, the Human Rights Campaign released a video in tribute to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting; in the video, Cox and others told the stories of the people killed there. [53] [54]

Cox at L.A.'s Families Belong Together March in June 2018 Laverne Cox at L.A.'s Families Belong Together March (cropped).jpg
Cox at L.A.'s Families Belong Together March in June 2018

In 2017, Cox began her role as transgender attorney Cameron Wirth on Doubt on CBS. [11] However, after only two episodes had aired, CBS announced that they were pulling the series from their schedule, leaving the future of the remaining unaired episodes uncertain. [55] It was the first official cancellation of the 2016–17 season, following weak viewership. CBS later announced that the remaining 11 episodes would be broadcast on Saturday, beginning July 1. [56]

Cox was nominated in 2017 for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role in Orange Is the New Black. [57]

Also in 2017, 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. [58] That year Cox became one of the four faces of the fall campaign for the Ivy Park line of clothing. [59]

In February 2019, Cox headlined the New York Fashion Week show for 11 Honoré, a luxury e-retailer focused on plus-sized designer fashion. [60]

Cox was featured in Taylor Swift's "You Need to Calm Down" music video, which was released June 17, 2019. [61]

She was one of fifteen women chosen by guest editor Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, to appear on the cover of the September 2019 issue of British Vogue; this made Cox the first transgender woman to appear on the cover of British Vogue. [62] [63] [64]

In September 2019, Cox brought ACLU attorney Chase Strangio as her date to the 2019 Emmy Awards, and carried a custom rainbow clutch featuring the phrases "Oct 8", "Title VII", and "Supreme Court". This action was in reference to the U.S. Supreme Court case R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , in which Strangio was one of the lawyers representing Aimee Stephens, a trans woman who was fired from her job at a funeral home. Cox and Strangio spoke to reporters on the red carpet about the upcoming court case. [65] [66] [67] Cox executive produced the documentary Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen , which premiered on Netflix on January 27, 2020. [68] [69]

In May 2021, E! announced that Cox would become the host of Live from the Red Carpet starting in January 2022, replacing Giuliana Rancic. [70] In December 2021, she was cast in Netflix's dystopian fantasy film The Uglies directed by McG, based on a book of the same name by Scott Westerfeld. [71]

Impact

Cox has been noted by her LGBT peers, and many others, for being a trailblazer for the transgender community, [72] and has won numerous awards for her activist approach in spreading awareness. Her impact and prominence in the media has led to a growing conversation about transgender culture, [73] specifically transgender women, and how being transgender intersects with one's race. [74] She is the first transgender person to be on the cover of Time magazine, [6] be nominated for a Primetime Emmy, [43] and have a wax work in Madame Tussauds, [16] as well as the first transgender woman to win a Daytime Emmy as an executive producer. [75] In May 2016, Cox was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from The New School in New York City for her progressive work in the fight for gender equality. [76]

Honors and awards

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2000Betty AndersonDeirdreShort film
2004The Kings of BrooklynGirl
2008All NightLaylaShort film
2009Uncle StephanieStephanie
2010Bronx ParadiseHooker
2011CarlaCinnamon
Musical Chairs Chantelle
2012MigraineLolaShort film
The ExhibitionistsBlithe Stargazer
2013 36 Saints Genesuis
2014Grand StreetChardonnay
Laverne Cox Presents: The T WordHerself Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Special Class Special (2015)
Nominated - GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary (2015)
2015 Grandma Deathy
2017 Freak Show Felicia
2019 Can You Keep a Secret? Cybill
Charlie's Angels Bomb InstructorCameo
2020 Bad Hair Virgie
Promising Young Woman Gail
Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen HerselfAlso executive producer
2021 Jolt Detective Nevin
TBA The Uglies TBA

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2008 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit CandaceEpisode: "Closet"
I Want to Work for Diddy Herself6 episodes
Law & Order MinnieEpisode: "Sweetie"
2009 Bored to Death Transsexual prostituteEpisode: "Stockholm Syndrome"
2010 TRANSform Me HerselfAlso producer
8 episodes
2013–2019 Orange Is the New Black Sophia Burset Recurring role; 40 episodes
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (2015–2016)
Nominated—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (2014)
Nominated—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (2015–2017)
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (2014)
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (2017, 2019–2020)
2014 Faking It MargotEpisode: "Lying Kings and Drama Queens"
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce Adele NorthropEpisode: "Rule No. 426: Fantasyland: A Great Place to Visit"
2015–2017 The Mindy Project Sheena3 episodes
2016 The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again [94] Dr. Frank-N-FurterTelevision movie
2016–2019 Lip Sync Battle Herself2 episodes
2017 America's Got Talent Herself; Guest Judge1 episode; S12E10
Doubt Cameron Wirth13 episodes
2019 Weird City LiquiaEpisode: "Smart House"
Tuca & Bertie Ebony Black (voice)Episode: "The Sex Bugs"
Dear White People Cynthia FrayEpisode: "Chapter VII"
A Black Lady Sketch Show KianaEpisode: "Angela Bassett Is the Baddest Bitch"
2020 Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens God (voice)Episode: "Pilot"
Curb Your Enthusiasm HerselfEpisode: "Artificial Fruit"
One World: Together at Home HerselfTelevision special
2021 The Blacklist Dr. Laken PerillosEpisode: "Dr. Laken Perillos" [95]
2022 Celebrity Wheel of Fortune HerselfSeason 2 Episode 13 [96]
Inventing Anna Kacy Duke Series regular
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music & LaughterHerselfTelevision Special [97]
If We're Being Honest with Laverne CoxHerselfTalk show host [98]
TBA Clean Slate Desiree

Discography

Soundtrack albums

TitleAlbum
The Rocky Horror Picture Show:
Let's Do the Time Warp Again

(with Various Artists)

Singles

TitleYearPeak chart positions
US
Dance
Club

[100]
US
Dance/
Elec.

[101]
"Beat for the Gods"201822
"Welcome Home"2019630
"America the Beautiful"2020

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