Taraji P. Henson
Acting
Biography
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.
As actor 129
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Simpsons
1989
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Daily Show
1996
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Conan
2010
Saturday Night Live
1975
House
2004
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
The View
1997
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Sherri
2022
Person of Interest
2011
ER
1994
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Boston Legal
2004
Strong Medicine
2000
Project Runway
2004
Hot Ones
2015
The Talk
2010
Abbott Elementary
2021
Empire
2015
The Masked Singer
2019
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Division
2001
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019
Pacific Blue
1996
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Sister, Sister
1994
Celebrity Family Feud
2015
Felicity
1998
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
2010
The Cleveland Show
2009
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
2023
Lip Sync Battle
2015
Saved by the Bell: The New Class
1993
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019
Hidden Figures
2016
Half & Half
2002
American Music Awards
1974
Eli Stone
2008
The Karate Kid
2010
Minions: The Rise of Gru
2022
All of Us
2003
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
The Parent 'Hood
1995
Hollywood Game Night
2013
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Smart Guy
1997
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008
Celebrity IOU
2020
Ralph Breaks the Internet
2018
History 101
2020
Four Brothers
2005
Why Did I Get Married Again?
2026
What Men Want
2019
Hollywood Black
2024
That's My Jam
2021
STRAW
2025
The Color Purple
2023
Smokin' Aces
2006
Legendary
2020
Hart to Heart
2021
Date Night
2010
Larry Crowne
2011
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
2024
BET Awards
2001
No Good Deed
2014
Something New
2006
Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade
2016
Think Like a Man Too
2014
The Best of Enemies
2019
Think Like a Man
2012
Term Life
2016
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
2000
Muppets Haunted Mansion
2021
The Alec Baldwin Show
2018
The Good Doctor
2011
Top Five
2014
Madly Madagascar
2013
Taraji's White Hot Holidays
2015
Celebrity Prank Wars
2023
Baby Boy
2001
Not Easily Broken
2009
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
2009
Hustle & Flow
2005
My Happy Place
2025
Coffee & Kareem
2020
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
2001
This Changes Everything
2019
Proud Mary
2018
Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4
2022
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
2008
Hurricane Season
2010
I Can Do Bad All By Myself
2009
Acrimony
2018
Give Me Some Sugah
2026
Satan's School for Girls
2000
Feeding America Comedy Festival
2020
Once Fallen
2010
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
2023
Animal
2005
Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs
2002
Peep World
2010
Talk to Me
2007
Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story
2011
The Wine Down with Mary J. Blige
2023
From the Rough
2013
Escape Room
2025
Annie Live!
2021
Where's Usher?
2024
Mary J. Blige's My Life
2021
Whitney Houston: We Will Always Love You
2012
Seasons of Love
2014
Picasso Baby
2013
TIME100: The World's Most Influential People
2024
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
2023
Sorcerority
Force
Hair Show
2004
Streetwise
1998
