Laverne Cox
American actress and LGBT advocate
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| 2025 | Laverne Cox is set to voice a role in the adaptation of Animal Farm |
| 2025 | Laverne Cox nominated for Style Icon award at the Queerty Awards |
| 2025 | Cox stars in and executive produces 'Clean Slate' as the character Desiree |
| 2024 | Laverne Cox is set to appear as Dr. Cable in the film Uglies. |
| 2024 | Laverne Cox is scheduled to appear as herself in multiple upcoming shows, including Password and The Masked Singer. |
| 2024 | Cox competed in season twelve of The Masked Singer as 'Chess Piece', where she was eliminated on 'Barbie Night.' |
| 2022 | Cox becomes a series regular in Inventing Anna and hosts her own talk show 'If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox'. |
| 2022 | Laverne Cox starred as Kacy Duke in the series Inventing Anna, where she was a series regular. |
| 2022 | She was awarded the W. E. B. Du Bois Medal from the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. |
| 2021 | E! announced that Cox would host Live from the Red Carpet starting in January 2022. |
| 2021 | Cox was cast in Netflix's dystopian fantasy film The Uglies, directed by McG. |
| 2021 | Laverne Cox played the role of Detective Nevin in the film Jolt. |
| 2021 | Cox wins Queerty Award for Film Performance in 'Promising Young Woman' |
| 2020 | Laverne Cox played the role of Virgie in the film Bad Hair. |
| 2020 | Laverne Cox released 'America the Beautiful,' which did not chart. |
| 2020 | Laverne Cox appeared as Gail in Promising Young Woman. |
| 2020 | Laverne Cox participated in the television special One World: Together at Home. |
| January 27 2020 | Cox executive produced the documentary Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen, which premiered on Netflix. |
| 2019 | Laverne Cox made a cameo as Bomb Instructor in Charlie's Angels. |
| 2019 | Laverne Cox's song 'Welcome Home' peaked at position 6 on the charts. |
| 2019 | Laverne Cox starred as Cybill in the film Can You Keep a Secret? |
| 2019 | Cox attended the Emmy Awards with ACLU attorney Chase Strangio, advocating for the Supreme Court case R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. |
| September 2019 | Cox appeared on the cover of the September issue of British Vogue, making her the first transgender woman to do so. |
| June 17 2019 | Cox was featured in Taylor Swift's music video for 'You Need to Calm Down.' |
| February 2019 | Cox headlined the New York Fashion Week show for 11 Honoré, a luxury e-retailer focused on plus-sized fashion. |
| 2018 | Cox received the Claire Skiffington Vanguard Award from the Transgender Law Center, recognizing her contributions to the transgender movement. |
| 2018 | Laverne Cox released the song 'Beat for the Gods,' which peaked at position 22. |
| 2018 | Cox wins British LGBT Awards for LGBT+ Celebrity and receives Transgender Law Center's Claire Skiffington Vanguard Award |
| February 2018 | Cox became the first transgender person to appear on the cover of a Cosmopolitan magazine, with her cover on the South African edition. |
| 2017 | Cox became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on U.S. broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS's 'Doubt.' |
| 2017 | She was named to the 2017 OUT Power 50 List. |
| 2017 | She collaborated with the ACLU and others to create the video 'Time Marches Forward & So Do We,' which she narrated. |
| 2017 | Laverne Cox appeared as a guest judge on America's Got Talent in season 12, episode 10. |
| 2017 | Laverne Cox appeared as Felicia in the TV series Freak Show. |
| 2017 | Cox was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role in Orange is the New Black. |
| 2017 | Cox serves as a guest judge on 'America's Got Talent' and appears in the TV series 'Doubt' for 13 episodes |
| 2016 | Laverne Cox starred as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again, a television movie. |
| 2016 | Laverne Cox made history as the first transgender woman to win a Daytime Emmy as an executive producer. |
| 2016 | Cox participated in a Human Rights Campaign video tribute to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting. |
| 2016 | Laverne Cox became the first transgender person to have a wax work in Madame Tussauds. |
| October 21 2016 | Laverne Cox released the soundtrack album 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again' in collaboration with Various Artists. |
| May 2016 | Laverne Cox was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from The New School in New York City for her progressive work in the fight for gender equality. |
| 2015 | Cox won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special for her role as executive producer for 'Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word,' becoming the first trans woman to win the award. |
| 2015 | Three Twins Ice Cream in San Francisco renamed one of its flavors to Laverne Cox's Chocolate Orange is the New Black for Pride weekend. |
| 2015 | Cox posed nude for the Allure annual 'Nudes' issue, marking her as the first transgender actress to do so. |
| 2015 | Cox was included in the 2015 OUT Power 50 List. |
| 2015 | She was featured in the People World's Most Beautiful Women List. |
| 2015 | Laverne Cox was nominated for a Primetime Emmy, making her the first transgender person to receive such a nomination. |
| 2015 | The cast of Orange Is the New Black, including Laverne Cox, won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. |
| 2015 | She was recognized by Forum for Equality as one of their 31 Icons of the LGBT History Month. |
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