Actress and LGBT rights activist Laverne Cox was born in the United States on May 29, 1972.She gained notoriety when she played Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black.
She was the first transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy Award in the acting category for Primetime and the first since composer Angela Morley in 1990.
A lot of her fans are looking forward to knowing who her dad is.
Keep reading on as we explore more on that aspect of her life.
Who is Laverne Cox father? Did Laverne Cox know her father?
Cox never got to meet her dad.
Her mother was a teacher who, as a single mother, concentrated all of her efforts on raising her two kids.
Cox referred to herself as “extremely creative” when she was younger and said that it kept her going.
She earned her degree in dance from the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, Alabama, where she had previously studied creative writing.
