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.
Taraji P. Henson Biography / Wiki
| Name | Taraji P. Henson |
| Also Know | Taraji Penda Henson, Taraji Henson, 타ë¼ì§€ P. 헨슨 |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1970-09-11 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 52 |
| Deathday |
Taraji P. Henson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story | Tiffany Rubin | 2011-01-31 | In 2008, New York mother Tiffany Rubin faced every parent’s worst nightmare when her six year old son Kobe vanished into thin air. Upon learning that … |
| Seasons of Love | Jackie | 2014-11-23 | Set in the picturesque backdrop of New York, “Seasons of Love” is a romantic, soulful holiday drama about two people who struggle to find love against… |
| Hidden Figures | Katherine G. Johnson | 2016-12-10 | The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the bra… |
| Proud Mary | Mary | 2018-01-12 | Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she … |
| The Best of Enemies | Ann Atwater | 2019-04-05 | Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctan… |
| Acrimony | Melinda | 2018-03-30 | A faithful wife takes action when it becomes clear to her that her devious husband has betrayed her…. |
| Taraji’s White Hot Holiday Special | Herself – Host / Mrs. Claus / Mary / Prancer | 2017-12-14 | Taraji P. Henson, Golden Globe-winning star of EMPIRE and the movie “Hidden Figures,†is back this holiday season to spread cheer, goodwill and so… |
| What Men Want | Alison “Ali” Davis | 2019-02-08 | Magically able to hear what men are thinking, a sports agent uses her newfound ability to turn the tables on her overbearing male colleagues…. |
| Sorcerority | Sorcerority follows a young African-American girl, Melanie, who, like her late mother, enrolls into a historically African-American coven and universi… | ||
| BET Awards 2022 | BET Awards ’22 celebrates the best of Black culture in music, TV, film, sports and philanthropy…. | ||
| Hurricane Season | Dayna Collins | 2009-12-08 | Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach A… |
| I Can Do Bad All By Myself | April | 2009-09-11 | When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and deliver… |
| Not Easily Broken | Clarice Clark | 2009-01-09 | A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple…. |
| Baby Boy | Yvette | 2001-06-27 | The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitment… |
| No Good Deed | Terri | 2014-09-10 | Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at … |
| Forehead Tittaes | Herself | 2010-03-07 | Women get men to take them seriously by wearing miniature model breasts on their foreheads…. |
| The Color Purple | Shug Avery | 2023-12-20 | An adaptation of the Broadway musical The Color Purple, based on the acclaimed novel and its film adaptation…. |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Queenie | 2008-12-25 | I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a… |
| Talk to Me | Vernell Watson | 2007-07-13 | The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph “Petey” Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s… |
| Once Fallen | Pearl | 2010-11-02 | When Chance (Brian Presley) returns home after five years in jail, he is determined to escape his past, start a new life and make peace with his fathe… |
| The Karate Kid | Sherry Parker | 2010-06-10 | Twelve-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother’s latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediate… |
| The Good Doctor | Nurse Theresa | 2011-04-23 | Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a … |
| From the Rough | Catana Starks | 2013-06-08 | The coach of a women’s swim team parlays her success into an opportunity to build her school’s men’s golf team…. |
| Coffee & Kareem | Vanessa | 2020-04-03 | A Detroit cop reluctantly teams with his girlfriend’s 11-year-old son to clear his name and take down the city’s most ruthless criminal…. |
| Mary J. Blige’s My Life | Self | 2021-06-25 | Mary J. Blige set the music world on fire with her trailblazing 1994 LP “My Life.” The singer, producer and actress reveals the demons and blessings t… |
| Annie Live! | Miss Hannigan | 2021-12-02 | Annie, the beloved seven-time Tony Award-winning Broadway sensation, comes to life like never before in a live musical event starring Harry Connick, J… |
| Hustle & Flow | Shug | 2005-07-22 | With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee…. |
| Date Night | Detective Arroyo | 2010-04-08 | Phil and Claire Foster fear that their mild-mannered relationship may be falling into a stale rut. During their weekly date night, their dinner reserv… |
| Hair Show | Tiffany | 2004-10-17 | Peaches, a hair stylist from Baltimore, and her estranged sister, Angela, the owner of an upscale salon in Beverly Hills, get reacquainted when Peache… |
| Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade | Ethel (voice) | 2016-03-19 | A harried prehistoric bird mother entrusts her precious, soon-to-hatch egg to Sid. When she recommends him to her neighbours, business booms at his ne… |
| Ralph Breaks the Internet | Yesss (voice) | 2018-11-20 | Video game bad guy Ralph and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz must risk it all by traveling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part … |
| Satan’s School for Girls | Paige | 2000-03-13 | A young woman enrolls at an all-girls college in New England to investigate her sister’s suicide and is slowly lured into a witchcraft cult by a quart… |
| Minions: The Rise of Gru | Belle Bottom (voice) | 2022-06-29 | A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them, with the backup of his followers,… |
| Animal | Ramona | 2005-05-01 | His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James “Animal”Allen is locked up in a maximum security prison, he meets a revolutionary who cha… |
| Something New | Nedra | 2006-01-29 | Kenya McQueen, a corporate lawyer, finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spi… |
| Think Like a Man | Lauren Harris | 2012-04-20 | The balance of power in four couples’ relationships is upset when the women start using the advice in Steve Harvey’s book, Act Like A Lady, Think … |
| Larry Crowne | B’Ella | 2011-06-30 | When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes p… |
| Peep World | Mary | 2010-09-15 | On the day of their Father’s 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, that ex… |
| Think Like a Man Too | Lauren Harris | 2014-06-20 | All the couples are back for a wedding in Las Vegas, but plans for a romantic weekend go awry when their various misadventures get them into some comp… |
| Madly Madagascar | Okapi (voice) | 2013-01-29 | Your favorite Madagascar pals are back in an all-new adventure! Alex’s favorite holiday, Valentine’s Day, brings hilarious surprises and excitement fo… |
| Streetwise | 1998-06-12 | Three brothers use legal and illegal methods to make it out of their drug-infected neighborhood…. | |
| The Family That Preys | Pam | 2008-09-12 | Alice Pratt, a hard working Christian woman, raised her two daughters while managing a simple diner of her own. Her snobbish and arrogant daughter And… |
| Smokin’ Aces | Sharice Watters | 2006-12-09 | When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state’s evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of… |
| Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man | Bess Pinckney | 2001-05-02 | Jessica Fletcher discovers a shocking old family secret that leads her on a journey to the deep South to bring to light the mysterious details surroun… |
| PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie | 2023-10-11 | The PAW Patrol pups transform into The Mighty Pups after a meteor crash lands in Adventure City. For Skye, the smallest member of the team, her new po… | |
| Four Brothers | Camille Mercer | 2005-08-11 | Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers…. |
| Term Life | Samantha Thurman | 2016-04-29 | If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days, he’ll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performi… |
| Picasso Baby | Herself | 2013-08-02 | Jay Z performs Picasso Baby at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC…. |
| The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button | Self | 2009-05-05 | A documentary about the making of David Fincher’s 2008 film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Virtually every element in the evolution of the Finch… |
| Muppets Haunted Mansion | The Bride | 2021-10-08 | Gonzo is challenged to spend one night in The Haunted Mansion on Halloween night…. |
| The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle | Left-Wing Student | 2000-06-30 | Rocky and Bullwinkle have been living off the finances made from the reruns of their cartoon show. Boris and Natasha somehow manage to crossover into … |
| Top Five | Herself | 2014-12-12 | A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality-TV star fiancé talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her TV show…. |
| This Changes Everything | Herself | 2019-06-28 | An investigative look and analysis of gender disparity in Hollywood, featuring accounts from well-known actors, executives and artists in the Industry… |
| Feeding America Comedy Festival | 2020-05-10 | All-star comics perform in support of Feeding America…. | |
Taraji P. Henson Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Two Faced | Director | A high school senior attempts to get her principal fired after observing racist behavior, but she quickly learns he won’t go down without a fight…. | |
| Tell It Like A Woman | Director | … | |
Taraji P. Henson Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| No Good Deed | Executive Producer | 2014-09-10 | Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at … |
| Seasons of Love | Executive Producer | 2014-11-23 | Set in the picturesque backdrop of New York, “Seasons of Love” is a romantic, soulful holiday drama about two people who struggle to find love against… |
| Proud Mary | Executive Producer | 2018-01-12 | Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she … |
| Taraji’s White Hot Holiday Special | Executive Producer | 2017-12-14 | Taraji P. Henson, Golden Globe-winning star of EMPIRE and the movie “Hidden Figures,†is back this holiday season to spread cheer, goodwill and so… |
| What Men Want | Executive Producer | 2019-02-08 | Magically able to hear what men are thinking, a sports agent uses her newfound ability to turn the tables on her overbearing male colleagues…. |
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