Personal Info
Known ForActing
GenderFemale
BirthdaySeptember 10, 1970 (54 years old)
Place of BirthWashington, D.C., USA
Taraji P. Henson
Biography
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.
Known For
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
Animal
Muppets Haunted Mansion
Hustle & Flow
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Talk to Me
Hurricane Season
Four Brothers
I Can Do Bad All By Myself
Date Night
Not Easily Broken
Something New
Sorcerority
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
Once Fallen
Baby Boy
The Karate Kid
The Good Doctor
Think Like a Man
Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story
The Color Purple
Larry Crowne
No Good Deed
Hair Show
Think Like a Man Too
From the Rough
Satan's School for Girls
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Seasons of Love
Top Five
Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4
Where’s Usher?
Term Life
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
Whitney Houston: We Will Always Love You
Peep World
TIME100: The World's Most Influential People
Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade
Hidden Figures
Force
Smokin' Aces
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Madly Madagascar
Proud Mary
The Best of Enemies
Acrimony
Taraji's White Hot Holiday Special
This Changes Everything
What Men Want
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Coffee & Kareem
Minions: The Rise of Gru
Feeding America Comedy Festival
Streetwise
Picasso Baby
Mary J. Blige's My Life
Annie Live!
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs
Straw
Eli Stone
Saved by the Bell: The New Class
House
Person of Interest
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Half & Half
All of Us
The Division
Smart Guy
Sister, Sister
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Parent 'Hood
Strong Medicine
ER
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
The Cleveland Show
That's My Jam
Abbott Elementary
The Alec Baldwin Show
American Music Awards
Empire
The Daily Show
Lip Sync Battle
Celebrity Prank Wars
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Boston Legal
That's My Jam
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Celebrity IOU
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Hot Ones
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Sherri
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Legendary
Hollywood Game Night
Saturday Night Live
Hart to Heart
Taraji's White Hot Holidays
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
The View
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
Entertainment Tonight
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Project Runway
Conan
RuPaul's Drag Race
Felicity
Felicity
The Simpsons
The Wine Down with Mary J. Blige
History 101
ER
Pacific Blue
Lie Detector
Lie Detector
Today with Hoda & Jenna
Number One on the Call Sheet
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