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Things eventually got better and the actress studied creative writing and dance while at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, then at Indiana University Bloomington before finally switching to Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, where she studied acting. There was always a kid or groups of kids who wanted to beat me up.' I was chased home from school practically every day. And so I was called sissy, I was called the F-word. 'Bullied because I didn’t act the way someone assigned male at birth was supposed to act. 'I was bullied and I internalized a lot of shame about who I was as a child,' Cox said during an interview on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. In 2014, she opened up about being bullied as a child, and how after being called a sissy and the F-word, she attempted suicide at age 11. She was born on May 29th in Mobile, Alabama, and raised by a single mother and her grandmother. In honor of her long list of accomplishments on and off screen, here's everything we know about the trailblazer.

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In addition, she's starred in other projects such as 2016's TV remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and season 3 of Dear White People.Īfter she became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an acting category at the Primetime Emmys in 2014, Cox has stayed busy, between nabbing her first solo cover of Out Magazine, co-hosting iHeartRadio's Can't Cancel Pride virtual benefit concert, and executive producing her new Netflix documentary Disclosure. Memorably, Cox graced the cover of Time magazine in 2014 with a headline that read ' The Transgender Tipping Point.' Not that she was the first, but the story itself paved the way for trans Americans to have further visibility in the media at large. Recognized for her Emmy-nominated performance as Sophia Burset on Orange Is the New Black, she's opened doors for LGBTQ folks not only in Hollywood, but across the globe.

Laverne Cox on Pride Month and Stonewall.

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