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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.
Series | Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist | Vivian Thoma | 2024-09-05 |
Movie | Where’s Usher? | Self | 2024-02-08 |
Movie | The Color Purple | Shug Avery | 2023-12-25 |
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 | Ralph Breaks the Internet | Yesss (voice) | 2018-11-20 |
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 | Term Life | Samantha Thurman | 2016-04-29 |
Movie | Hidden Figures | Katherine G. Johnson | 2016-12-10 |
Series | Hot Ones | Herself | 2015-03-12 |
Series | Lip Sync Battle | Herself | 2015-04-02 |
Series | Empire | Cookie Lyon | 2015-01-07 |
Series | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Unknown | 2015-08-02 |
Series | Taraji's White Hot Holidays | Herself - Host | 2015-12-09 |
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 | 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 | The Good Doctor | Nurse Theresa | 2011-04-23 |
Movie | Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story | Tiffany Rubin | 2011-01-31 |
Movie | Larry Crowne | B'Ella | 2011-06-30 |
Series | Person of Interest | Joss Carter | 2011-09-22 |
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 |
Series | The Cleveland Show | Unknown | 2009-09-27 |
Movie | Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys | Pam | 2008-09-12 |
Series | Eli Stone | Unknown | 2008-01-31 |
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 | Hustle & Flow | Shug | 2005-07-22 |
Movie | Animal | Ramona | 2005-05-01 |
Movie | Four Brothers | Camille Mercer | 2005-08-11 |
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 |
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 |
Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
Series | Strong Medicine | Unknown | 2000-07-23 |
Series | Smart Guy | Unknown | 1997-03-26 |
Series | The Parent 'Hood | Unknown | 1995-01-18 |
Series | Sister, Sister | Unknown | 1994-04-01 |
Series | ER | Unknown | 1994-09-19 |
Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
Series | Saved by the Bell: The New Class | Unknown | 1993-09-11 |
Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |