Laverne Cox

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Laverne Cox |George Wallace |Dan Ewen

Editor’s Note: Deadline reveals here for the first time that Clean Slate has been canceled by Prime Video. The last completed project involving Norman Lear, the comedy featured Laverne Cox and George Wallace as an estranged daughter and father from Mobile, Alabama trying to reconnect after decades apart amid tensions over trans rights and a changing America.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Laverne Cox |Adrienne Gaffney |Lauren Puckett-Pope

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links."Dylan Mulvaney’s Paper Doll was meant to be “a very different book,” the author admits to the actress Laverne Cox. It’s a Friday afternoon in March, and Mulvaney is Zooming in from “the most haunted house in L.A.,” her eyebrows dyed blonde for a photoshoot as part of her latest Paper Doll press.

2 months ago | huffpost.com | Corey Townsend |Laverne Cox

Laverne Cox won’t be driving into the fast lane anytime soon. The “Orange Is the New Black” alum revealed on a recent visit to the “Jennifer Hudson Show” that driving isn’t a talent of hers. “I do not drive, Jennifer,” Cox admitted to host Jennifer Hudson, before revealing she “has had her learner’s permit twice.” But this story isn’t just about Cox’s inability to drive — it’s also about a love that took a turn for the worse during 2019’s Pride celebrations in New York City.

2 months ago | thegrio.com | Laverne Cox |Kay Wicker

The latest victim of the Trump administration’s anti-DEI orders appears to be Frederick Douglass. Organizers have canceled a parade planned to honor the 207th birthday of the Maryland native and famed abolitionist after the Maryland National Guard announced they could not participate, citing the Department of Defense’s order to cease celebrating “identity months.”While the event was slated for February, Black History Month, it was also planned around the date of his birth and death.

Feb 14, 2025 | televisionacademy.com | Laverne Cox

When Laverne Cox originated the role of Sophia Burset on Netflix's Orange Is the New Black in 2013 and then a year later made history as the first trans performer nominated for an Emmy in any acting category, she didn't realize her very presence in Hollywood would outshine the many characters she'd go on to portray.