Laverne Cox (born May 29, 1972) is an American actress and LGBTQ advocate. 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. 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. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regularly on U.S. broadcast TV, as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt.
Cox 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. In April 2014, Cox was honoured by GLAAD with its Stephen F. Kolzak Award for advocating for the transgender community. In June 2014, Cox became the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine. 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. She is also the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Laverne Cox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia. 라번 콕스(1972년생, Mobile, Alabama, USA) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 프라미싱 영 우먼, '부메랑' - Outcome, 졸트가 있으며, 그 외에도 로 앤 오더: 성범죄전담반, 지미 팰런의 투나잇 쇼, Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, 로 앤 오더, 블랙리스트, 레이트 나이트 위드 세스 마이어스, 데일리 쇼, The Kelly Clarkson Show, 루폴의 드래그 레이스, 제니퍼 허드슨 쇼, 오렌지 이즈 더 뉴 블랙, 커브 유어 엔수지애즘 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. 특히 2026년에는 '부메랑' - Outcome에도 참여해서 활동중이다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2026년 동물농장에서 Snowball (voice) 역을 맡았다. 2026년 '부메랑' - Outcome에서 Virginia Allen-Green 역을 맡았다. 2025년 The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship - A Special Edition of 20/20에 출연했다.