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Laverne Cox Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT advocate.[2][3][4] 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,[5][6] and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990.[7] In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word,[8][9] making her the first openly transgender woman to win the award.[8] In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt.[10]
Laura Gómez (actress) Laura Gómez (born 1979) is a Dominican actress, speaker, writer, and director. She belongs to SAG-AFTRA and lives in New York City. Gómez is best known for her portrayal of the character Blanca Flores, an astute and disheveled prison inmate in the award-winning Netflix series Orange Is The New Black. In the fall of 2012 she won the NYU Technisphere Award for her short film To Kill a Roach.