who does laverne cox play in orange is the new black
Laverne Cox Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT advocate.[2][3][4] 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,[5][6] and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990.[7] In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word,[8][9] making her the first openly transgender woman to win the award.[8] 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]