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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]
Laverne Cox was home alone on Tuesday night watching news coverage of the election. ... because she had supportive parents, she was able to transition before puberty. She did a social transition ...
The "transgender tipping point" refers to the moment of popular awareness of transgender people in the year 2014. The phrase was coined in the title of a cover article in the May 2014 issue of Time magazine, written by Katy Steinmetz. [1] The cover of the issue featured a full-body portrait of transgender actress Laverne Cox. [2]
Following Trump’s re-election, actress Laverne Cox reveals her concerns for the transgender community, and why she’s considering leaving the U.S. Like many Americans, Laverne Cox was ...
Laverne Cox opened up exclusively to Us Weekly about 25 things you might not know about her — including the hardships she’s experienced as a transgender woman, her favorite memories of ...
Laverne Cox has been one of the most visible trans people in the world for the better part of a decade. After landing a role on Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black” in 2013 and being the ...
The Trans List is a 2016 documentary film by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders for HBO, about eleven transgender Americans: [1] Buck Angel, Kylar Broadus, Caroline Cossey, Laverne Cox, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Caitlyn Jenner, Amos Mac, Nicole Maines, Shane Ortega, Bamby Salcedo, and Alok Vaid-Menon.
As Laverne Cox tells Zac Posen in the premiere episode of Yahoo Lifestyle’s new “Loud and Clear” video series, her heralded pop-culture arrival was a long time coming.