Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBTQ advocate who rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. In 2014, she became the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, and the first to be nominated for any Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. Cox won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2015 in the Outstanding Special Class Special category as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, making her the first trans woman to win a Daytime Emmy Award. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on U.S. broadcast television, taking on the role of Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt.