Taraji P. Henson
Taraji P. Henson (born September 11, 1970) is an American actress, producer and singer. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career as guest star on several television shows before making her breakthrough in the movie Baby Boy (2001). In 2005, she starred in Hustle & Flow and played Queenie in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), for which she received an Academy Award nomination. In 2016, Time named Henson one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual Time 100 list. Henson also released an autobiography titled Around The Way Girl.
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- Born:
- Sep 11, 1970 In Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 56
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Streetwise 1998-06-12
- Latest Project:
- Series Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist 2024-09-05
Known For
Filmography
| Series | Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist | Vivian Thoma | 2024-09-05 |
| Movie | Where’s Usher? | Self | 2024-02-08 |
| Movie | PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie | Victoria Vance (voice) | 2023-09-21 |
| Movie | Oprah & The Color Purple Journey | Self | 2023-12-28 |
| Movie | The Color Purple | Shug Avery | 2023-12-25 |
| Movie | Minions: The Rise of Gru | Belle Bottom (voice) | 2022-06-29 |
| Movie | Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4 | Self | 2022-11-09 |
| Movie | Muppets Haunted Mansion | The Bride | 2021-10-08 |
| Movie | Annie Live! | Miss Hannigan | 2021-12-02 |
| Movie | Coffee & Kareem | Vanessa Manning | 2020-04-03 |
| Movie | What Men Want | Alison "Ali" Davis | 2019-02-08 |
| Movie | The Best of Enemies | Ann Atwater | 2019-04-05 |
| Movie | This Changes Everything | Self | 2019-06-28 |
| Movie | Proud Mary | Mary | 2018-01-12 |
| Movie | Ralph Breaks the Internet | Yesss (voice) | 2018-11-20 |
| Movie | Acrimony | Melinda Moore Gayle | 2018-03-30 |
| Movie | Taraji's White Hot Holiday Special | Herself - Host / Mrs. Claus / Mary / Prancer | 2017-12-14 |
| Movie | Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade | Ethel (voice) | 2016-03-19 |
| Movie | Hidden Figures | Katherine G. Johnson | 2016-12-10 |
| Movie | Term Life | Samantha Thurman | 2016-04-29 |
| Series | Empire | Cookie Lyon | 2015-01-07 |
| Series | Taraji's White Hot Holidays | Herself - Host | 2015-12-09 |
| Movie | Think Like a Man Too | Lauren Harris | 2014-06-20 |
| Movie | Top Five | Self | 2014-12-12 |
| Movie | No Good Deed | Terri | 2014-09-10 |
| Movie | Seasons of Love | Jackie | 2014-11-23 |
| Movie | Madly Madagascar | Okapi (voice) | 2013-01-29 |
| Movie | From the Rough | Catana Starks | 2013-06-08 |
| Movie | Picasso Baby | Herself | 2013-08-02 |
| Movie | Think Like a Man | Lauren Harris | 2012-04-20 |
| Movie | Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story | Tiffany Rubin | 2011-01-31 |
| Movie | The Good Doctor | Nurse Theresa | 2011-04-23 |
| Movie | Larry Crowne | B'Ella | 2011-06-30 |
| Movie | Date Night | Detective Arroyo | 2010-04-08 |
| Movie | The Karate Kid | Sherry Parker | 2010-06-10 |
| Movie | Peep World | Mary | 2010-09-15 |
| Movie | Once Fallen | Pearl | 2010-11-02 |
| Movie | Not Easily Broken | Clarice Clark | 2009-01-09 |
| Movie | The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button | Self | 2009-05-05 |
| Movie | I Can Do Bad All By Myself | April | 2009-09-11 |
| Movie | Hurricane Season | Dayna Collins | 2009-12-08 |
| Movie | Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys | Pam | 2008-09-12 |
| Movie | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Queenie | 2008-12-25 |
| Movie | Talk to Me | Vernell Watson | 2007-07-13 |
| Movie | Something New | Nedra | 2006-01-29 |
| Movie | Smokin' Aces | Sharice Watters | 2006-12-09 |
| Movie | Animal | Ramona | 2005-05-01 |
| Movie | Four Brothers | Camille Mercer | 2005-08-11 |
| Movie | Hustle & Flow | Shug | 2005-07-22 |
| Movie | Hair Show | Tiffany | 2004-10-17 |
| Movie | Baby Boy | Yvette | 2001-06-27 |
| Series | The Division | Raina Washington | 2001-01-07 |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man | Bess Pinckney | 2001-05-02 |
| Movie | Satan's School for Girls | Paige | 2000-03-13 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle | Left-Wing Student | 2000-06-30 |
| Movie | Streetwise | 1998-06-12 |