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She has an identical twin brother, M Lamar, who portrayed the pre- transitioning Sophia (as Marcus) in Orange Is the New Black. Early life Ĭox was born in Mobile, Alabama, and was raised by a single mother and grandmother within the AME Zion church.

She is also the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds. 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. In June 2014, Cox became the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine. Kolzak Award for her work as an advocate for the transgender community. In April 2014, Cox was honored by GLAAD with its Stephen F.

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Ĭox 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. broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS 's Doubt.

In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on U.S. In 2015, she 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. 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, and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. Laverne Cox (born May 29, 1972) is an American actress and LGBT advocate.