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Taraji Penda Henson (/ t ə ˈ r ɑː dʒ i / tə-RAH-jee; born September 11, 1970) is an American actress.She has received several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Tony Award and six Emmy Awards (including four Primetime Emmy Awards nominations). In 2016 and 2024, Time named Henson one of the 100 most influential people in the world. After studying acting at Howard University, she made her film debut in the crime film Streetwise (1998 ...
Taraji P. Henson. Actress: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Taraji Penda Henson is an American actress and singer. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career in guest roles on several television shows before making her breakthrough in Baby Boy (2001). She played a prostitute in Hustle & Flow (2005), for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in...
Taraji P. Henson. Actress: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Taraji Penda Henson is an American actress and singer. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career in guest roles on several television shows before making her breakthrough in Baby Boy (2001). She played a prostitute in Hustle & Flow (2005), for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in...
Feb 21, 2024 · T araji P. Henson often plays towering characters who catapult off the screen with charisma, defiance, and tenacity. She ruled network television for six years as Cookie Lyon in Empire and stole ...
Jul 1, 2024 · Taraji P. Henson (born September 11, 1970, Washington, D.C., U.S.) is an American actress who was best known for playing strong female characters, notably Loretha (“Cookie”) Lyon in the television drama Empire (2015–20).. Henson grew up in Washington, D.C., and in Oxon Hill, Maryland, where she and her divorced mother moved. She entered North Carolina A&T State University to pursue a degree in electrical engineering but dropped out after failing a math class. She held several temporary ...
Jan 5, 2024 · Taraji P. Henson said that it seemed like whenever salary discussions for a new job come up, “I’m right back like I did nothing. I almost had to walk away from ‘Color Purple.’”
Taraji P. Henson shares stories from her performances in ‘The Color Purple’, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ and ‘Empire’ in this conversation about he...
Sep 19, 2016 · It shouldn’t be surprising that Taraji P. Henson—the woman responsible for Cookie Lyon, pop culture’s patron saint of confidence and survival—is just as fearless as her Empire alter ego ...
Dec 18, 2023 · Empire star Taraji P. Henson was a 15-year-old high school student in Washington, D.C., when she first saw The Color Purple, Steven Spielberg's 1985 film adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer ...
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 ...
