Though some sources report Laverne Cox’s year of birth as 1984, Who2 research suggests the actual year is 1972, or very close to it. Her birthday of May 29 was reported by Playbill in 2014… Laverne Cox’s twin brother is the avant-garde artist and musician M. Lamar. He played her as a pre-transition male in one episode of Orange Is the New Black; in the story, Sophia had been a fireman named Marcus Burset… Laverne Cox doesn’t publicly reveal her birth name; the print version of the 2014 interview with her mother Gloria did give her birth name as Roderick Leverne Cox, but that detail has been removed from the archived version of the story on the Mobile Press-Register site AL.com. It now says, “Though both of the Cox children have changed their names, ‘They didn’t stray far from the names their mama gave them,’ Gloria said.” Laverne Cox has written that Laverne was her original middle name (although the spelling, Leverne, is slightly different) and Cox her original last name.