Laverne Cox

Laverne Cox is an American actress reality television star television producer and LGBT advocate She became known for her portrayal of Sophia Burset on the Netflix television series Orange Is the New Black for which she became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the acting category and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composermusician Angela Morley in 1990 In 2015 she became the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds In 2017 she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on Doubt on CBS