Laverne Cox uses her high heel pump as a phone in ES Magazine fashion story.

Actor and trans activist Laverne Cox plays a starring role in Netflix’s highly anticipated ‘Inventing Anna’, occupying the top spot on Netflix US in the week ending Sunday, Feb. 13. 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.

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.

Laverne Cox appears in the February 2022 issue of the Evening Standard’s ES Magazine. Scott Shapiro styles Cox in images by Andy Jackson [IG]. /Hair by Ursula Stephen; makeup by Keita Moore;

Laverne Cox wears one-shoulder orange dress for Evening Standard Magazine.

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.”

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.

Laverne Cox wears beige coatdress with black belt in ES Magazine.

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