Taraji P. Henson
☼ Born on 11 December 1970, in Washington D.C., USA
BiographyTaraji 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 a Motion Picture nomination; and a single mother of a disabled child in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), for which she received Academy Award, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. In 2010, she appeared in the action comedy Date Night, and co-starred in the remake of The Karate Kid.


In the role of actor

Minions: The Rise of Gru (30/06/2022)

The little yellow henchmen help their new boss become the world’s greatest supervillain in Minions: The Rise of Gru. Gru (Steve Carell) is a 113/4-year-old aspiring supervillain and the latest boss of the Minions (Pierre Coffin). Gru receives his most significant opportunity when he gets the chance to interview for a recently vacated position on […]

Ralph Breaks the Internet (22/11/2018)

Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope leave the confines of the arcade in Ralph Breaks the Internet. Over the past six years, Wreck-It-Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) have become the best of friends in the video game arcade. However, when Ralph accidentally causes Vanellope’s Sugar Rush game to break, she is left without a home. Using the arcade’s new […]

Best of Enemies (04/05/2015)

An intense series of political debates is at the centre of Best of Enemies.  In the summer of 1968, ABC News decided to air series of debates between left-wing novelist Gore Vidal and the ultra-conservative William F. Buckley Jr.  Bitter enemies with each other, Vidal and Buckley debated the issues surrounding the Republican and Democratic […]