Laverne Cox

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Laverne Cox (2014)

Laverne Cox (* 29. May 1972 in Mobile , Alabama as Roderick Leverne Cox ) is a transsexual American actress , television producer , and LGBT -Aktivistin and Emmypreistägerin . With her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black , she became the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category. In 2015 she won a Daytime Emmy Award in special class as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word . This made her the first openly transgender woman to win a Daytime Emmy for executive producer. Also in 2015, she became the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of himself at Madame Tussauds . In 2017 she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series on broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS Doubt .

Life

Laverne Cox was born in Mobile , Alabama , and grew up there with her twin brother. She first attended the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham and Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. As an actress, she appeared in various films and television series. In addition, she was one of the candidates in the first season of the VH1 reality show I Want to Work for Diddy in 2008 . In 2010 she co-moderated and produced the reality show TRANSform Me , which was also shown on VH1.

Its largest role Cox since 2013 in the Netflix - web series Orange Is the New Black as Sophia Burset , a transsexual prisoner who was convicted of credit card fraud. For this role, she was nominated for the 2014 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and for the Emmy for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. This makes her the first openly transgender woman to ever be nominated for an Emmy in the acting categories.

In April 2014, Cox received the Stephen F. Kolzak Award from GLAAD for her efforts to promote transsexual rights .

Her twin brother is the composer, musician, tenor , and performance and conceptual artist M Lamar , who is known as a participant in a panel with bell hooks , Marci Blackman and Samuel R. Delany entitled Transgressive Sexual Practice (2014).

Filmography (selection)

Awards and nominations

Primetime Emmy Award

  • 2014 : Nomination for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Orange Is the New Black
  • 2017 : Nomination for Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Orange Is the New Black

Daytime Emmy Award

  • 2014: Award as Outstanding Special Class Special for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word

Screen Actors Guild Award

Critics' Choice Television Award

Web links

Commons : Laverne Cox  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Jacob Bernstein: In Their Own Terms . In: NYTimes.com . March 12, 2014. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ Aleksandra Gjorgievska: Laverne Cox Is the First Transgender Person Nominated for an Emmy - She Explains Why That Matters . In: Time.com . July 10, 2014. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ Laverne Cox to be honored at the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles . In: GLAAD.org . March 31, 2014. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ Laverne Cox And M. Lamar Discuss Identity, Collective Trauma, Celebrating The Black Penis And More, in: Huffpost Gay Voices, August 2, 2012
  5. ↑ bell hooks Hosts an Open Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice at The New School, in: Youtube-Kanal von The New School, uploaded October 13, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Cox, Laverne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cox, Roderick Leverne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Mobile , Alabama