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Taraji P. Henson

Also known as: Taraji Penda Henson

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Taraji Penda Henson

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Taraji P. Henson Biography

Personal

Age: 54 years young

Born: Friday 11th of September 1970

Years active: 1997-present (started around 26 years old; 28 years active)

Birthplace: Washington, D.C., United States

Nationality: (American)

Ethnicity: Black

Professions: Actress

Body

Hair color: Black

Eye color: Brown

Height: 5'5" (or 165 cm)

Weight: 125 lbs (or 57 kg)

Body type: Slim

Measurements: 34-24-37

Bra/cup size: 34C show conversions

Boobs: Unknown

Tattoos: Various

Performances

Solo: Nudity (Topless Only)

Extra

Instagram follower count: 21.8m (#182 in our Babes Of Instagram List) (as of May 2025)

About Taraji P. Henson

Taraji Penda Henson (/təˈrɑːdʒi/ tə-RAH-jee; born September 11, 1970) is an American actress. 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 received praise for her performances as 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 as 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.

Henson has also had an extensive and successful career in television, including series such as The Division, Boston Legal and Eli Stone. In 2011, she starred in the Lifetime Television film Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story, which brought her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. From 2011 to 2013, she co-starred as Detective Jocelyn Carter in the CBS drama Person of Interest, for which she won an NAACP Image Award. She starred in the ensemble films Think Like a Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel. In 2015 she began starring as Cookie Lyon in the Fox drama series Empire, for which she became the first African-American woman to win a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series. She also won a Golden Globe Award; and was nominated for Emmy Awards in 2015 and 2016.

In 2016, Time named Henson one of the 100 most influential people in the world. That year, she released a New York Times best selling autobiography titled Around the Way Girl. Also that year, she was praised for her starring role as Katherine Johnson in the critically acclaimed drama film Hidden Figures, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

As of May 2025, Taraji has amassed 21.7 million followers on Instagram.

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