Who is Laverne Cox?
Laverne Cox, born May 29, 1972, in Mobile, Alabama, U.S. is an American actress and activist who achieved several “firsts” as an openly transgender woman in the entertainment industry. Although designated male at birth, Cox identified with the female gender from a young age and was often bullied for being feminine. Cox went to high…
Laverne Cox, born May 29, 1972, in Mobile, Alabama, U.S. is an American actress and activist who achieved several “firsts” as an openly transgender woman in the entertainment industry.
Although designated male at birth, Cox identified with the female gender from a young age and was often bullied for being feminine. Cox went to high school at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, Alabama, and focused on dance.
Who is Laverne Cox?
Laverne Cox was the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category (in 2014 for Orange Is the New Black), and she was the first transgender person to win (2015) a Daytime Emmy as a producer. Cox was born an identical twin.
Cox then attended Indiana University at Bloomington before graduating from Marymount Manhattan College, New York, with a bachelor’s degree in dance. In college, Cox began fully identifying as a female and started to transition medically.
