Erin Staley - Laverne Cox (Transgender Pioneers)

2016, English, Erin Staley, Laverne Cox,

In 2013, Orange Is the New Black began captivating audiences with its cast of female characters representing diverse strata of society.

Perhaps no star on the show has inspired as much as Laverne Cox, who plays the black transgender inmate Sophia Burset. Cox's work, both as an actor and off-screen, has brought attention to the risks faced by vulnerable populations, particularly racial minority transgender individuals.

This biography documents Cox's triumphant life and work as an activist, documenting her own growth from troubling times she recalls as a teenager to becoming the first openly transgender actor nominated for an Emmy.

According to Wikipedia, Laverne Cox (born in 1972) is an American actress, TV celebrity, and LGBT advocate. She became famous 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. In addition, she appeared as a contestant on the first season of VH1's reality show I Want to Work for Diddy, and co-produced and co-hosted the VH1 makeover television series TRANSform Me. In June 2014, she became the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine and four years later she appeared on the cover of a Cosmopolitan magazine.

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