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:
- 75
- First Appeared:
- In the series Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Color Purple 2023-12-25
Known For
Filmography
| Series | Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist | Vivian Thoma | 2025 |
| Movie | PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie | Victoria Vance (voice) | 2023-09-21 |
| Movie | The Color Purple | Shug Avery | 2023-12-25 |
| Movie | Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4 | Self | 2022-11-09 |
| Movie | Minions: The Rise of Gru | Belle Bottom (voice) | 2022-06-29 |
| Movie | Annie Live! | Miss Hannigan | 2021-12-02 |
| Movie | Muppets Haunted Mansion | The Bride | 2021-10-08 |
| Movie | Coffee & Kareem | Vanessa Manning | 2020-04-03 |
| Movie | Feeding America Comedy Festival | Self | 2020-05-10 |
| Movie | What Men Want | Alison "Ali" Davis | 2019-02-08 |
| Movie | This Changes Everything | Self | 2019-06-28 |
| Movie | The Best of Enemies | Ann Atwater | 2019-04-05 |
| Movie | Ralph Breaks the Internet | Yesss (voice) | 2018-11-20 |
| Movie | Proud Mary | Mary | 2018-01-12 |
| Movie | Acrimony | Melinda Moore Gayle | 2018-03-30 |
| Series | Carpool Karaoke: The Series | Herself | 2017-08-08 |
| 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 | 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 | Herself | 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 | Peep World | Mary | 2010-09-15 |
| Movie | Once Fallen | Pearl | 2010-11-02 |
| Movie | The Karate Kid | Sherry Parker | 2010-06-10 |
| 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 | Four Brothers | Camille Mercer | 2005-08-11 |
| Movie | Hustle & Flow | Shug | 2005-07-22 |
| Series | Boston Legal | Whitney Rome | 2004-10-03 |
| Movie | Hair Show | Tiffany | 2004-10-17 |
| Series | House | Unknown | 2004-11-16 |
| Series | All of Us | Unknown | 2003-09-16 |
| Series | Half & Half | Unknown | 2002-09-23 |
| Series | The Division | Raina Washington | 2001-01-07 |
| Movie | Baby Boy | Yvette | 2001-06-27 |
| Movie | Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man | Bess Pinckney | 2001-05-02 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle | Left-Wing Student | 2000-06-30 |
| Movie | Satan's School for Girls | Paige | 2000-03-13 |
| 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 |