Laverne Cox
as Frank-N-Furter
Laverne Cox is an Emmy Award-nominated actress and Emmy Award-winning producer best known for portraying the transgender inmate Sophia Burset on the hit series Orange is The New Black. For her role on Orange is the New Black, Cox has received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, back-to-back SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble, Comedy Series, a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and consecutive NAACP Image Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Cox is the first trans woman of color to produce and star in her own television show, TRANSForm Me, which was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award. Additionally, she received The Stephen F. Kolzak Award at the 2014 GLAAD Media Awards in LA and hosted the 2016 GLAAD Media Awards in New York.