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8. Laverne Cox
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She was one of the very first openly transgender people on your screen and you’ve admired her ever since – we’re talking about no other than Laverne Cox, the 45 year-old 5’11’’ stunner who rocks it on ‘Orange Is the New Black’. There are many ‘firsts’ when it comes to Laverne: she is the first transgender celeb to have a wax figure at Madame Tussauds and, even more importantly, she was featured on the cover of Time Magazine with an impactful headline: ‘The Transgender Tipping Point: America’s next civil rights frontier’.