American singer and actress Taraji P. Henson performs all over the world. Prior to starring in Baby Boy, she started her career in Hollywood as a guest actor on a number of television shows while studying acting at Howard University (2001).
She received nominations for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, SAG Award, and Critics Choice Award for her portrayals as a prostitute in David Fincher’s Hustle & Flow (2005) and a single mother of a disabled child in the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). (2008).
In 2010, she co-starred in the action-comedy Date Night and the Karate Kid remake.
Taraji P. Henson parents: Boris Henson, Bernice Gordon
Henson was brought into the world on September 11, 1970, in Southeast Washington, D.C., to Bernic Henson, a corporate chief at Woodward and Lothrop, and Boris Lawrence Henson, a janitor and metal fabricator.
Her maternal grandma Patsy Ballard, who went to the Academy Awards with her the year she was selected, altogether affected her. Her Swahili first and center names are Taraji (which signifies “trust”) and Penda (“love,” separately).
A mitochondrial DNA investigation uncovered that she has matrilineally plummeted from the Masa nation of Cameroon. She called Matthew Henson, a polar voyager, “my extraordinary incredible sibling.”
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