Happy 31st birthday, Laverne Cox!

From her stint on I Want to Work for Diddy to her scene-stealing turn on Orange Is The New Black–and let's not forget her Emmy win for her groundbreaking MTV/Logo TV docuseries, Laverne Cox Presents The T Word–Laverne Cox is a force.

Beyond her undoubted merits as a thespian, Cox has proven a vital voice for the trans community.

“I would never be so arrogant to think that someone should model their life after me. But the idea of possibility… the idea that I get to live my dreams out in public, hopefully will show to other folks that it’s possible. So I prefer the term ‘possibility model’ to ‘role model,'” she told Katie Couric during a sit-down interview.

"Folks want to believe that genitals and biology are like destiny," she told Time during her cover shoot for the magazine. "All these designations are based on a penis, however many inches that is, and then a vagina. And that’s supposed to say all these different things about who people are. When you think about it, it’s kind of ridiculous. People need to be willing to let go of what they think they know about what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman. Because that doesn’t necessarily mean anything inherently. Folks are just really uncomfortable with that sense of uncertainty, or that shift."

And let's not be remiss in her forgetting those phresh as f*ck dance moves.

And nobody nails a hair flip quite like Laverne.

And who in Hollywood isn't she friends with?

She's also in with these two:

I guess it's fair to say, yeah, Laverne Cox, we're a tiny bit obsessed with you.

Laverne, we salute you and your greatness.

Happy birthday, Queen!