Taraji P. Henson Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Executive Producer , Producer more
Birth name Taraji Penda Henson
American nationality

BIOGRAPHY
Taraji Penda Henson is studying acting at Howard University. Graduating in 1995, she began with small roles in television series, such as Le Petit Malin or Urgences , but really became known in 2001, with Baby Boy by John Singleton , where the young woman starred in the company of Ving Rhames , Tyrese Gibson and Snoop Dogg . A first important role in the cinema, soon followed by another on television since, very quickly, she took on the costume of Inspector Raina Washington for the four seasons of Elite Division , from 2002 to 2004.

In 2005, she starred in several films with Terrence Howard : Four Brothers and Hustle & Flow . In the latter, she plays Shug, a pregnant prostitute, and does not hesitate to demonstrate her singing qualities by performing one of the songs from the soundtrack “It’s Hard Out There for a Pimp”, a title which won an Oscar in 2006.

The actress is very productive and continues filming. She is Queenie, Benjamin Button ‘s adoptive mother in the David Fincher film , starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett . Performance which earned her an NAACP Award for Best Actress, as well as other awards. Subsequently, Tyler Perry made her appear in several of his productions: The Family That Preys in 2008 and I Can Do Bad All by Myself in 2009. Then, she starred in the remake of Karate Kid alongside Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith and is once again critically acclaimed thanks to the character of Tiffany Rubin for the TV film My Son is Missing!

Taraji Henson is a regular on the small and big screen. In 2011, she got one of the main roles in the series created by Jonathan Nolan , Person of Interest . In the shoes of detective Joss Carter, she tracks down Jim Caviezel ‘s character for 3 seasons. After several more or less notable appearances in the cinema, including one in the thriller Double Betrayal by Sam Miller opposite an Idris Elba more terrifying than ever, the actress is starring in Empire , a Fox drama set to hip music. -hop. There she finds Terrence Howard, aka Lucious Lyon, CEO of the record label Empire Entertainment, and plays his ex-wife and the mother of his children, Cookie Lyon, just released from prison, ready to do anything to get her share of the money back. the business she helped build.

Thomas Sevin