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“The day it happened, I cried,” Cox told The Hollywood Reporter during a recent In Studio visit. It’s a historic feat - Cox was the first transgender performer ever nominated for an acting award - and one, she admits, she’s still processing.

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That blueprint included a seven-year run playing Sophia Burset on the Netflix prison series Orange is the New Black, a role that has garnered the now-47-year-old three Emmy nominations for outstanding guest actress. It turns out that God had a different plan.” Now I should just listen to what the universe seems to be telling me about this acting thing and try something else. Maybe that’s all God wanted for me in this business. Though she had some film and TV credits on her resume, it felt like the time had come to close the curtain. “When I moved to New York City in 1993, I thought I would be a superstar in two, three years tops. “They had just gone to school and were about to graduate from graduate school and they were like, ‘You need to go to school,’ ” she recalled. When Laverne Cox turned 40 in May 2012, she was knee-deep in debt and ready to trade in the title of “actress” for “grad student.”Īfter 20 years of grinding out a career as a performer in New York, Cox had a conversation with a onetime co-worker from Lucky Cheng’s Restaurant & Bar, where she was working at the time. The ‘Orange is the New Black’ star talks to The Hollywood Reporter about nearly quitting acting and why she’s chosen to use her latest awards nod to spotlight other trans performers. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender character on the TV broadcast as Cameron Wirth on CBS’s Doubt series. In 2015, Laverne Cox won a Daytime Emmy Award for the Outstanding Private Class Special as executive producer of Presents: The T Word, becoming the first openly transgender woman to win this award.

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