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EXCLUSIVE: Laverne Cox (Promising Young Woman, Orange Is the New Black) is the latest addition to the cast of Uglies, the dystopian fantasy film based on Scott Westerfeld’s international bestseller of the same name, which McG is directing for Netflix. She joins a cast led by Joey King, which also includes Keith…

E!’s red carpet coverage has found a new host in Inventing Anna and Promising Young Woman actress Laverne Cox. Starting with the 2022 awards season, the four-time Emmy-nominated Orange Is the New Black actress will take over for former host Giuliana Rancic, who announced her exit in an Instagram post on Friday…

Sterling K. Brown, Laverne Cox, Jeremy Pope and Jake Borelli are among the all-star cast of a virtual benefit reading of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, to be directed by Paris Barclay. The May 8 reading, to raise funds for ONE Archives Foundation and Invisible Histories Project, will include a special introduction…

Norman Lear is getting into business with IMDb TV. He has set two projects in development at the Amazon-owned free streaming service including the Laverne Cox-George Wallace comedy Clean Slate, which previously was in development at Peacock. The streamer is working with Lear's Act III Productions and Sony Pictures Tele…

The Netflix documentary Disclosure is chock full of the history of cinema from a very specific point of view, and that is in how we view the whole trans community and all the images we've ingested from decades and decades of movies and television that may have influenced the way we think, or don't think. As times are…

Laverne Cox announced on Wednesday that she will no longer be involved in Sarah Jones’ upcoming sex industry documentary, Sell/Buy/Date, following backlash on social media. “I am not in an emotional place to deal with the outrage by some around my participation in this project. So I have decided to pull out,” she…

Sarah Jones is about to take a look at the world of the sex industry from a different angle. The Tony Award winner is set to make her feature directorial debut with the documentary Sell/Buy/Date which is based on her 2016 Off Broadway stage production of the same name. The docu explores how the sex industry sits at…

Orange Is The New Black star Laverne Cox has teamed up with Shonda Rhimes to produce a weekly podcast series. The actor will host The Laverne Cox Show (w/t) debuting in February. It will feature "intimate" conversations with guests. Produced by Shondaland Audio and iHeartMedia, the show comes as Cox is set to star in…

Laverne Cox has been and still is changing the game when it comes to the representation of the trans community and Black people in film and TV. She continues to bolster this message of inclusion of marginalized voices as an executive producer on Netflix’s Sam Feder-directed Disclosure. More than just a documentary, it…

Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox usually has celebratory and fun posts on her Instagram account, but on Saturday, she took to the social media platform to share her sobering account of a transphobic attack she and her friend experienced while at Griffith Park in Los Angeles. In the video, she admits that she was in…

Saturday Night Live alum Leslie Jones will host the 72nd Emmy Awards nominations ceremony, which will be held Tuesday at 8:30 AM PT/11:30 AM ET as a livestream hosted by the Television Academy. Jones will be joined by presenters Laverne Cox, Josh Gad and Tatiana Maslany in the livestream, a virtual event this year…

Anna Chlumsky, six-time Emmy nominee for Veep, and Julia Garner, coming off an Emmy win for Ozark, will lead the cast of Inventing Anna, Netflix’s upcoming 10-episode limited drama series from Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes. It marks the first series created by Rhimes since Scandal, and the top showrunner has…