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
5.8
House
8.592
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
7.134
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
5.411
The Parent 'Hood
7.3
Strong Medicine
7.1
ER
7.828
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
3.6
The Cleveland Show
5.874
That's My Jam
6.1
Abbott Elementary
7.462
The Alec Baldwin Show
1
American Music Awards
8.2
Empire
7.159
The Daily Show
6.354
Lip Sync Battle
6.384
Celebrity Prank Wars
6.2
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
5.5
Boston Legal
7.9
That's My Jam
6.1
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
5.8
Celebrity IOU
6.1
The Kelly Clarkson Show
6.422
The Kelly Clarkson Show
6.422
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
5.7
Hot Ones
7.4
The Jennifer Hudson Show
6.4
Sherri
4.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
6.343
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
4.4
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
5.312
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
5.061
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
7
The View
4.5
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
6.2
Entertainment Tonight
4
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
5.853
Project Runway
6.2
Conan
7.068
RuPaul's Drag Race
7.548
Felicity
6.6
Felicity
6.6
The Simpsons
8
The Wine Down with Mary J. Blige
0
History 101
7.081
ER
7.828
Pacific Blue
5.3
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
6.412
Hustle & Flow
7.1
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7.593
Talk to Me
6.884
Hurricane Season
6.7
Four Brothers
6.807
I Can Do Bad All By Myself
6.2
Date Night
6.1
Not Easily Broken
6.2
Something New
6.4
Sorcerority
0
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
6.8
Once Fallen
5.25
Baby Boy
7.121
The Karate Kid
6.558
The Good Doctor
6.2
Think Like a Man
6.8
Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story
6.9
The Color Purple
7.1
Larry Crowne
5.991
No Good Deed
5.926
Hair Show
5.15
Think Like a Man Too
6.4
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
6.9
Seasons of Love
3.2
Top Five
6.101
Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4
7.2
Where’s Usher?
0
Term Life
5.9
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
4.5
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
8.054
Force
0
Smokin' Aces
6.487
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
4.2
Madly Madagascar
6.5
Proud Mary
5.5
The Best of Enemies
7.4
Acrimony
6.7
Taraji's White Hot Holiday Special
8.4
This Changes Everything
6.2
What Men Want
6.208
Ralph Breaks the Internet
7.173
Coffee & Kareem
5.465
Minions: The Rise of Gru
7.3
Feeding America Comedy Festival
6.8
Streetwise
1
Picasso Baby
9
Mary J. Blige's My Life
6.6
Annie Live!
5.2
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
6.9
Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs
10
STRAW
8.123
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
7.039