Laverne Cox is Making History With CBS's 'Doubt
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Cox is the first transgender woman to play a transgender character on broadcast television.
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Laverne Cox Makes History with CBS Series
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Laverne Cox Amiyah Scott Twitter First Trans Person TV
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Laverne Cox is cast as a transgender lawyer in the CBS pilot Doubt
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Laverne Cox makes TV history
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Katherine Heigl & Laverne Cox's 'Doubt' Picked Up by CBS!: Photo
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Laverne Cox on Netflix's Prism Initiative, Pride, and Stonewall
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Laverne Cox is Making History With CBS's 'Doubt
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Laverne Cox On Making History As Transgender Performer On CBS
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Laverne Cox to co-star in legal series 'Doubt
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