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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TV Series
Eli Stone
6.8
Saved by the Bell: The New Class
6.093
House
8.59
Person of Interest
8.1
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
7.636
Half & Half
8.3
All of Us
7.3
The Division
7
Smart Guy
7.8
Sister, Sister
7.044
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
5.409
The Parent 'Hood
7.3
Strong Medicine
7.1
ER
7.824
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
3.6
The Cleveland Show
5.9
That's My Jam
6.1
Abbott Elementary
7.475
The Alec Baldwin Show
1
American Music Awards
8.2
Empire
7.145
The Daily Show
6.378
Lip Sync Battle
6.399
Celebrity Prank Wars
6.6
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
5.543
Boston Legal
7.918
That's My Jam
6.1
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
5.929
Celebrity IOU
6.385
The Kelly Clarkson Show
6.5
The Kelly Clarkson Show
6.5
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
5.972
Hot Ones
7.4
The Jennifer Hudson Show
6.2
Sherri
3.8
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
6.281
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
5
Legendary
7.5
Hollywood Game Night
6.5
Saturday Night Live
7
Hart to Heart
8.2
Taraji's White Hot Holidays
10
The Late Late Show with James Corden
5.281
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
5.1
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
7
The View
4.363
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
6.2
Entertainment Tonight
4.12
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
5.8
Project Runway
6.3
Conan
7.101
RuPaul's Drag Race
7.527
Felicity
6.6
Felicity
6.6
The Simpsons
8.013
The Wine Down with Mary J. Blige
0
History 101
7.108
ER
7.824
Pacific Blue
5.356
Lie Detector
10
Today with Hoda & Jenna
0
Number One on the Call Sheet
9
My Happy Place
0
BET Awards
7.7
Movies
Animal
5.6
Muppets Haunted Mansion
6.411
Hustle & Flow
7.142
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7.594
Talk to Me
6.893
Hurricane Season
6.7
Four Brothers
6.8
I Can Do Bad All By Myself
6.23
Date Night
6.103
Not Easily Broken
6.221
Something New
6.4
Sorcerority
0
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
6.795
Once Fallen
5.25
Baby Boy
7.132
The Karate Kid
6.56
The Good Doctor
6.2
Think Like a Man
6.793
Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story
6.846
The Color Purple
7.07
Larry Crowne
5.997
No Good Deed
5.938
Hair Show
5.15
Think Like a Man Too
6.423
From the Rough
6.059
Satan's School for Girls
4.6
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
6.3
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
6.071
Seasons of Love
3.2
Top Five
6.087
Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4
7.2
Where’s Usher?
0
Term Life
5.95
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
3.333
Whitney Houston: We Will Always Love You
7.5
Peep World
4.7
TIME100: The World's Most Influential People
0
Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade
6.4
Hidden Figures
8.052
Force
0
Smokin' Aces
6.492
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
4.2
Madly Madagascar
6.5
Proud Mary
5.509
The Best of Enemies
7.375
Acrimony
6.742
Taraji's White Hot Holiday Special
8.4
This Changes Everything
6.2
What Men Want
6.209
Ralph Breaks the Internet
7.171
Coffee & Kareem
5.464
Minions: The Rise of Gru
7.3
Feeding America Comedy Festival
5.8
Streetwise
1
Picasso Baby
9
Mary J. Blige's My Life
6.6
Annie Live!
5.2
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
6.915
Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs
10
STRAW
7.887
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
7.024