Laverne Cox Net Worth: How Rich Is Laverne Cox?

Orange Is the New Black actress, Laverne Cox, has a net worth of approximately $6 million.

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.