Power 50: Laverne Cox

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Appearances in Lily Tomlin's Grandma and The Mindy Project helped the Orange Is the New Black star expand her visibility in 2015. Later this year, she'll trade in her prison duds for fishnets in Fox's musical version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, before slipping into a smart power suit as one of the leads in the new CBS legal drama Doubt.