From Red Carpet Host to Shondaland Podcast, Laverne Cox's Creative Garden Grows

Image via Laverne Cox Instagram.

The New York Times notes that actor Laverne Cox is well known on Hollywood’s red carpets. This season Cox has switched it up as the host of preshow specials at the Grammys and the Oscars for E. The actor takes her hosting gigs very seriously, with an unusual amount of preparation for a red carpet host.

In these first images from her Instagram, Laverne Cox wears a beautiful, sheer black John Galliano archives dress working last weekend’s Grammy Awards. Her look is pure elegance, including perfectly-purple tones hair.

“I’ll try to look for other interviews they’ve done if it’s applicable so I can maybe ask them something that they haven’t been asked,” Ms. Cox said about her red carpet interviews. “And you have to be in the moment because there’s so many things happening.”

Numerous stars approach Cox when she’s hosting, as excited to meet her as she is them. Read on about Laverne Cox’s new red carpet style at NYT.

Images via Lavern Cox Instagram

Laverne Cox Flies High, Lensed by Andy Jackson in ES Magazine February 2022 AOC Fashion

AOC shared in mid-February, Laverne Cox’s interview and fashion story, lensed by Andy Jackson in London’s Evening Standard ES Magazine. The entire fashion story is on the AOC Fashion link.

Actor and trans activist Laverne Cox plays a starring role in Netflix’s highly anticipated ‘Inventing Anna’, occupying the top spot on Netflix US during much of February. Anna Sorokin was a Russian native who identity-morphed into a Germany heiress named Anna Delvey.

As the focus of the nine-part series from Shondaland, the TV production company founded by writer and producer Shonda Rhimes, Anna Delvey [played by actor Julia Garner] was a con artist who duped New York City’s top-echelon of beautiful people while trying to swindle millions from big-league banks during the 2010s.

‘Inventing Anna’ is the first work for Netflix that Rhimes herself has written.

Laverne Cox plays Kacy Duke, a celebrity personal trainer and life coach to people like Denzel Washington and Julianne Moore. Duke became deeply entangled in Sorokin’s web of grand-scale deception.

AOC learned on Alabama.com that one of Laverne Cox’s next projects is a comedy series called ‘Clean Slate’, a half-hour series in which Cox plays a trans woman who returns to her native-state Alabama after a 17 years absence. In perhaps a sign of the times, her estranged father Henry, who lost a son is not face-to-face with Desiree, a “determined, proud, trans woman, Desiree.”

Norman Lear and his production partner Brent Miller are executive producers on “Clean Slate”, in the pipeline for the quickly growing IMDb TV, which is the premium free streaming service complement to Amazon’s subscription Prime Video service.

Cox also has a widely available Podcast backed by Shondaland Audio and iHeartMedia. You can also hear Laverne Cox interviewed on Net-a-Porter’s ‘Incredible Women’ podcast on Apple or Spotify. Check out the fourth season on this link.

Laverne Cox hails from Mobile, Alabama, where she was bullied with hate and shame over her complex sexual identity as a young teen. Today’s confident trans activist attempted suicide at age 11.

AOC only speaks to Lavern Cox’s trans status because she does in her ES Magazine interview. Hannah Marriott describes the actor/activist as “a treat to watch” before the camera. . . . She is a virtuoso under the photographer’s bright lights, pouting, smizing, arching her back, spiralling one hand into the air with a dancer’s flourish.”

When Cox became famous — the first openly trans person to cover Time and Cosmopolitan magazines, the first openly transgender primetime Emmy nominee and Daytime Emmy Award winner — she made history.

The stiletto phone pose was spontaneous, and it’s an incredible image.. And we love her for it . . body, brain and spirit.. ~ Anne