Redefining Realness has received praise from which trans activist who starred on Orange is the New Black?
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".
Piper Chapman Piper Elizabeth Chapman is a fictional character (played by Taylor Schilling) and the protagonist of the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black". She is based on Piper Kerman, author of the non-fiction book "", upon which the series is based. Schilling was nominated for awards in both comedy and drama categories for this role.