Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT rights activist who was born on May 29, 1972.

As Sophia Burset in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, she shot to fame and became the first transgender nominee for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category.

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What was Laverne Cox childhood like

The renowned celebrity Cox was born in Mobile, Alabama, and was brought up in the AME Zion church by a single mother and her grandmother.

M Lamar, her identical twin brother, played Marcus in Orange is the New Black as Sophia before she transitioned.

According to Cox, she made an attempt on her life at the age of 11, after being teased for acting “the way someone labeled male at birth was meant to act” and realizing she had feelings for some of her male classmates.

She earned her degree in dance from the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, Alabama, where she had previously studied creative writing.