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Laverne Cox

1984 - Today

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Laverne Cox (born May 29, 1972) 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 transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer 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, making her the first trans woman to win the award. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laverne Cox has received more than 19,096,093 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Laverne Cox is the 3,894th most popular actor (up from 4,964th in 2019), the 5,914th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,753rd in 2019) and the 1,827th most popular American Actor.

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  • 19M

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  • 47.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Laverne Cox ranks 3,894 out of 9,996Before her are Milton Berle, Michael Gwisdek, Ruby Rose, Neda Arnerić, Jeri Ryan, and Robert Preston. After her are Jeff Conaway, Frankie Avalon, Inna Makarova, R. G. Armstrong, Henry Travers, and Sylvester Groth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Laverne Cox ranks 50Before her are Nigel de Jong, Antonio Puerta, Annabelle Wallis, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Olivia Wilde, and Belén Cuesta. After her are Danijel Subašić, Marija Šerifović, Per Mertesacker, Claire Foy, Andriy Pyatov, and Mandy Moore.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Laverne Cox ranks 5,914 out of 18,182Before her are William Christian Bullitt Jr. (1891), Robert Preston (1918), Cesar Chavez (1927), Hunter Biden (1970), Elizabeth Gilbert (1969), and Kurt Angle (1968). After her are Jeff Conaway (1950), Frankie Avalon (1940), Joey Bishop (1918), Lil Peep (1996), R. G. Armstrong (1917), and Carol Morris (1936).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Laverne Cox ranks 1,827Before her are Ed Wynn (1886), Candy Clark (1947), Verne Troyer (1969), Betty Hutton (1921), Milton Berle (1908), and Robert Preston (1918). After her are Jeff Conaway (1950), Frankie Avalon (1940), R. G. Armstrong (1917), Gerald McRaney (1947), George Eads (1967), and Suzy Amis Cameron (1962).

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