Taraji P Henson was born in the year 1970; she is a singer and actress of American origins. She did her studies in Howard University and begun the Hollywood career by getting guest roles in different tv shows and movies and afterwards, she made the breakthrough in the Baby Boy. She was in Hustle&Flow where she played Queenie in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button of David Fincher. She received the Academy Award nomination and in 2010, she did appear in the comedy under the name Date Night and co-starred in a remake of the Karate Kid. In 2012, she was in a large cast of Think Like a Man and she did reprise the role for its sequel.
Taraji P Henson has an extensive career for television work and was a regular for Eli Stone, Boston Legal and The Division. She was detective Jocelyn Carter in Person of Interest at CBS drama. She was Cookie Lyon in the Fox Drama series called Empire and won Golden Globe Award and Critics’ Choice. She was nominated for the Emmy Award and Time has named her to be 100 most influential people into the world and for annual Time 100 List.
According to her biography, Taraji P Henson was born in the city of Southeast Washington D.C. She is a daughter of Bernice Gordon who worked like a corporate manager for Woodward & Lothrop and to Boris Lawrence Henson who was a metal fabricator and a janitor. Her first name and middle name are from Swahili. Taraji means hope and Penda means love. Her family origins have been traced back to the Masa People in Cameroon. She says that Matthew Henson who was a North Pole explorer was a brother to his great-great grandfather. He graduated from the Oxon Hill High School in the city of Oxon Hill, in Maryland. She was in North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and it is the place where she did electrical engineering and afterwards, she attended Howard University where she did drama. To be able to pay for the college fee, she worked as a secretary in the morning and a singing-dancing waitress during evening.
Taraji P Henson got the first baby when she was in the junior year for the college and she gave birth in the year 1994 at young age. It is a son called Marcel Johnson and her son father was her long time boyfriend called William Lamar Johnson and was murdered in the year 2003. Taraji P Henson is a supporter to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals called PETA and she was on the 2011 issue where she was nude in the campaign saying, I rather be Naked Than Wear Fur Campaign. Taraji P Henson had never any husband and she worked to support her son alone. Her net worth is 6 million dollars.
| Birth Date: | 11 Sep, 1970 |
| Age: | 49 yrs |
| Occupations: | Actor Singer Television actor Film actor |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Washington, D.C. |
| residence: | Washington, D.C. |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | American actress |
| Net Worth 2021: | 25 million |
