Laverne Cox has been a strong figure and a sensation in the world of television. She has been best known for her role of Sophia Burset on Netflix television series Orange Is The New Black. She has already reach the heights of success. She is the first openly transgender person to be nominated for Prime Emmy Award for acting category. Not only Prime Award she is also the second nominated candidate for Emmy Award. You can also see her wax figure in Madame Tussauds.
She has really struggled hard for her success. Going back to her early days we found that, Cox was also a contestant of VH1’s hosted programs such as ” I want to Work for Diddy” and “TRANSform Me”. She was born on 29th May, 1984. She was born and brought up in Mobile, Alabama. She is currently on her age of 32. She attempts for suicide while she was just 11 years old. The reason behind her devastating thought was her gender. Though she was a male born child, she was developing feelings for her male classmates and this reason nearly took her life.
She also has an identical twin brother whose name is M Lamar. M Lamar portrays in Orange Is the New Black as Marcus.Cox has already acted in numerous TV Shows such as “Law and Order:SUV”, “Bored to Death” and “Musical Chairs”. Grab a detailed biography about her.
She has always been a promising and idol for the transgender community and won herself many awards. She has an activist impact and approach for justifying transgenders and commencing awareness programs.
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and commencing awareness programs. She also is the first transgender figure to be on the cover of Time magazine. She also won Honorary Doctorate from The New School in New York City for her fights against gender equality.
While talking about her personal life, We found she is likely to date these days. However, she has no any plans for getting married or having a husband/children. She is not sure to get married and have a family or be a mother. However, she do believe in love and she wants to fall in love. No facts about her recent boyfriend/girlfriend or affairs are yet disclosed.
She is a gorgeous women and a beautiful creature. She has a kind heart and loving personality. She is rumored to have different surgery but no facts are found about those rumors. Check about her thoughts on surgery. Cox holds an whooping net worth of $2 million. She also falls under the 10 richest transgender people in the world. Apart from her appearance in TV series, she has also done some movies such as Grandma, Grand Street, Bronx Paradise and Freak Show.
She is a famous figure in social media sites such as Twitter and Instagram. In Twitter people even follows a trend of marking their post with #lavernecox. She has a enormous 581K follower and 15.3 k tweets in Twitter. While talking about her instagram she has 2.1 million followers with around 3000 posts. There is no doubt she is very popular in these social media platforms.