Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT advocate who rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category.
She is also the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990.
Is Laverne Cox in a relationship? In January 2021, Cox revealed in an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she’s in a relatiomship with a “new guy”. However, she didn’t disclose his identity.
Cox said her new boyfriend “has never dated a trans woman before,” as was the case with her previous two relationships.
And while she said it’s typically her partners who want to keep the relationship under wraps because she is trans, Cox has found that now that she lives her life in the spotlight, she’s the one who craves privacy.