<Tr> <Th> Relatives </Th> <Td> M Lamar (twin brother) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.lavernecox.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT advocate . 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, and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer / musician 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 . This made her the first openly transgender woman to win a Daytime Emmy as an executive producer . Also 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 CBS's Doubt . </P> <P> Cox 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 April 2014, Cox was honored by GLAAD with its Stephen F. Kolzak Award for her work as an advocate for the transgender community . In June 2014, Cox became the first openly transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine . In February 2018, Cox became the first openly transgender person to appear on the cover of any Cosmopolitan magazine (specifically, Cosmopolitan South Africa). . </P>

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