Roderick Leverne Cox is the original birth name of American actress Laverne Cox.
Although she has not publicly disclosed the name but her mother did during an interview in 2014.
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Does Laverne Cox Have An Identical Twin?
Reginald Lamar Cox, a k.a M Lamar, is the identical twin of actress Laverne Cox.
M Lamar is a composer, performer, and artist. He played the pre-transition of Marcus in the movie Orange Is the New Black.
Who Is Laverne Cox?
Laverne Cox is an American actress and an LGBT advocate. born May 29, 1972, in Mobile, Alabama, USA.
Cox grew up with her mother, grandmother and her identical twin brother, M Lamar.
Cox had to undergo a sex change from male to female, following much bullying from a tender age for not acting like a normal male.
She bagged her first degree in creative writing and dance from the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham.
She proceeded to Indiana University Bloomington and then Marymount Manhattan College in New York City.
Laverne Cox Career
Cox came to fame after she starred in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black.
She is the first transgender individual to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award, the last being in 1990.
Cox is also the first transgender individual to grace the cover of Time magazine, Cosmopolitan magazine, and to be wax figured at Madame Tussauds.
Cox has been a contestant on the reality show I Want to Work for Diddy, and co-hosted the TV series TRANSform Me.
The award-winning actress has a Daytime Emmy Award in her name, and is the first transgender woman to win the award.