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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).
[3] [4] Henson and her co-stars were selected as the Best Cast from the National Board of Review and won Best Cast from the Screen Actors Guild and Satellite Awards. In 2024, Henson received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play, as a producer of Jaja's African Hair Braiding.
In 2016, she starred alongside Taraji P. Henson and Janelle Monáe in Hidden Figures, a film about African-American mathematicians at NASA who were critical to its success in the 1960s in the Space Race, and who each had careers there. She played mathematician and human computer Dorothy Vaughan.
Taraji P. Henson wants to see what life is like outside of the U.S. "I've been thinking about that for a long time," the Fight Night star, 53, tells PEOPLE. "I was thinking about it the first time ...
Taraji P. Henson is letting her reality as a working actor be known.
Taraji P. Henson wants to see all Black women in beauty win. The 53-year-old actress, who launched her haircare line, TPH by Taraji , in 2020, isn’t intimidated by the increasing number of ...
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
Taraji P. Henson is thinking about the future and encouraging her fans to do the same. Throughout her career, the award-winning actress has been an advocate for causes ranging from mental health ...