She gained notoriety for her portrayal of Sophia Burset in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black.
This led to her being named the first transgender nominee for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category and the first since composer Angela Morley in 1990.
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She became the first transgender woman to win a Daytime Emmy Award in 2015 for Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer of Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word.
As Cameron Wirth on CBS’s Doubt, she made history by becoming the first transgender person to portray a transgender series regular on American broadcast television.
Cox was born in Mobile, Alabama, and was brought up in the AME Zion church by a single mother and her grandmother.
M Lamar, her identical twin brother, played Marcus in Orange is the New Black as Sophia before she transitioned.