who plays sophia orange is the new black
Laverne Cox Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT advocate.[1][2][3] She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, becoming the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the acting category,[4][5] and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer/musician Angela Morley in 1990.[6] In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word.[7][8] This made her the first openly transgender woman to win a Daytime Emmy as an executive producer.[7] Also in 2015, she became the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds.[9] In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt.[10]