Laverne Cox

Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT 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 regular on U.S. broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt.

29 May 1972

Born on the same birth date (29 May 1972): Bill Curley • John Simon (rugby league) • Simon Jones (musician)

Born on the same birth day (29 May): Alfonsina Storni • Carmelo Anthony • Clark Voorhees • Clifton James • Douglas Abbott • Eric Davis (baseball) • Harry Frankfurt • Humphry Ditton • Jana Čepelová • John Harsanyi • Keith Gull • Maika Monroe • Mohsen Makhmalbaf • Oswaldo Negri Jr. • Stacy Keach Sr. • Sylvia Robinson

Born in the same month (May 1972): Bill Curley • Busta Rhymes • Christian Califano • Danny Alexander • Darren Hayes • Doriva • Ike Moriz • James Cracknell • Manny Ramirez • Matthew Hart • Max Brooks • Michael Boogerd • Michael Diamond (sport shooter) • Poppy King • Ramzi bin al-Shibh • The Notorious B.I.G. • Turner Stevenson • Žigmund Pálffy