What "Big Bang Theory" actress appeared in the movie Debating Robert Lee?
Debating Robert Lee Debating Robert Lee is a 2004 independent film, directed by Dan Polier and written by Dan Polier and Matthew Klein. It is centered on a group of jaded, high school teenagers in idyllic, upscale Palos Verdes, California. Most students on the team are taking debate as an elective needed to graduate, but Robert Lee (played by Dale Midkiff), one of the best debate teachers in the country, believes that they can aspire to more. The movie also stars Kaley Cuoco, Beau Bridges, Melinda Dillon, Danielle Harris, Edwin Hodge, Billy Kay, Brian Kerwin, Daniel Letterle, Leonardo Nam, and Rachel Nichols.
Laverne Cox Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT advocate. She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black", becoming the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the acting category, and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer/musician Angela Morley in 1990. In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for "Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word." This made her the first openly transgender woman to win a Daytime Emmy as an executive producer. Also in 2015, she became the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS' s "Doubt".