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:
- 77
- First Appeared:
- In the series The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 1992-05-25
- 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 | Despicable Me 4 | Belle Bottom (voice) (uncredited) | 2024-06-20 |
| Movie | The Color Purple | Shug Avery | 2023-12-25 |
| Movie | PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie | Victoria Vance (voice) | 2023-09-21 |
| Movie | Oprah & The Color Purple Journey | Self | 2023-12-28 |
| 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 | Acrimony | Melinda Moore Gayle | 2018-03-30 |
| Movie | Ralph Breaks the Internet | Yesss (voice) | 2018-11-20 |
| Series | Carpool Karaoke: The Series | Herself | 2017-08-08 |
| Movie | Taraji's White Hot Holiday Special | Self - Host / Mrs. Claus / Mary / Prancer | 2017-12-14 |
| Movie | Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade | Ethel (voice) | 2016-03-19 |
| Movie | Term Life | Samantha Thurman | 2016-04-29 |
| Movie | Hidden Figures | Katherine G. Johnson | 2016-12-10 |
| Series | Empire | Cookie Lyon | 2015-01-07 |
| Series | Hot Ones | Herself | 2015-03-12 |
| Series | Lip Sync Battle | Herself | 2015-04-02 |
| Series | Taraji's White Hot Holidays | Herself - Host | 2015-12-09 |
| Series | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Unknown | 2015-08-02 |
| Movie | No Good Deed | Terri | 2014-09-10 |
| Movie | Think Like a Man Too | Lauren Harris | 2014-06-20 |
| Movie | Seasons of Love | Jackie | 2014-11-23 |
| Movie | Top Five | Self | 2014-12-12 |
| Movie | Madly Madagascar | Okapi (voice) | 2013-01-29 |
| Movie | Picasso Baby | Self | 2013-08-02 |
| Movie | From the Rough | Catana Starks | 2013-06-08 |
| Movie | Think Like a Man | Lauren Harris | 2012-04-20 |
| Movie | Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story | Tiffany Rubin | 2011-01-31 |
| Series | Person of Interest | Joss Carter | 2011-09-22 |
| 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 | Once Fallen | Pearl | 2010-11-02 |
| Movie | Peep World | Mary | 2010-09-15 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Cleveland Show | Unknown | 2009-09-27 |
| Series | Eli Stone | Unknown | 2008-01-31 |
| 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 | Hustle & Flow | Shug | 2005-07-22 |
| Movie | Four Brothers | Camille Mercer | 2005-08-11 |
| Movie | Hair Show | Tiffany | 2004-10-17 |
| Series | Boston Legal | Whitney Rome | 2004-10-03 |
| Series | House | Unknown | 2004-11-16 |
| Series | All of Us | Unknown | 2003-09-16 |
| Movie | Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs | Date #4 / Ghetto Girl (as Taraji Henson) | 2002-02-14 |
| Series | Half & Half | Unknown | 2002-09-23 |
| Series | The Division | Raina Washington | 2001-01-07 |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man | Bess Pinckney | 2001-05-02 |
| Movie | Baby Boy | Yvette | 2001-06-27 |
| Movie | Satan's School for Girls | Paige | 2000-03-13 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle | Left-Wing Student | 2000-06-30 |
| Series | Strong Medicine | Unknown | 2000-07-23 |
| Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | Streetwise | 1998-06-12 | |
| Series | Smart Guy | Unknown | 1997-03-26 |
| Series | The Parent 'Hood | Unknown | 1995-01-18 |
| Series | ER | Unknown | 1994-09-19 |
| Series | Sister, Sister | Unknown | 1994-04-01 |
| Series | Saved by the Bell: The New Class | Unknown | 1993-09-11 |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
| Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |