Taraji P. Henson Fashion Blog
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Taraji Penda Henson is an American actress and singer who studied acting at Howard University and broke through in Baby Boy (2001). She played Queenie in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and as of 2015 she stars as Cookie Lyon on the FOX drama series Empire, winning the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series. This page collects the fashion blog coverage of what she has been wearing.
Taraji Penda Henson is an American actress and singer. Henson 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). In 2005, she starred in Hustle & Flow and played Queenie in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2010, she appeared in the comedy Date Night and co-starred in the remake of The Karate Kid. In 2012, Henson was in the large ensemble cast film Think Like A Man and reprised her role in its sequel. Henson has also had an extensive career in television, having been a regular cast member on series such as The Division, Boston Legal and Eli Stone. From 2011 to 2013, she co-starred as Detective Jocelyn Carter in the CBS drama Person of Interest. She starred in the leading role of Tiffany Rubin, in the Lifetime Movie Network film Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. As of 2015, she stars as Cookie Lyon on the FOX drama series Empire, for which she won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
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From Baby Boy to Benjamin Button to Cookie Lyon
Taraji P. Henson's biography is built as a ladder of roles. The training rung is Howard University, where she studied acting; the first professional rungs are guest roles on several television shows; and the breakthrough is Baby Boy in 2001. Film recognition at the highest level came with Hustle & Flow in 2005 and then Queenie in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 2008, the role that brought her Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. The film work continued through the comedy Date Night (2010), the remake of The Karate Kid the same year, and the ensemble film Think Like A Man (2012) and its sequel, in which she reprised her role.
Television, though, is where the second half of her record sits, and it is unusually full: regular cast member work on The Division, Boston Legal and Eli Stone; a three-year run from 2011 to 2013 as Detective Jocelyn Carter in the CBS drama Person of Interest; and the leading role of Tiffany Rubin in the Lifetime film Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story, which brought a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. From 2015 the record centers on one character — Cookie Lyon on FOX's Empire — a role that won her the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series and an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress. A character as visually assertive as Cookie Lyon makes the series itself a fashion subject, and the blog posts gathered here track what Henson wears both in that orbit and on her own red carpets.
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The resource list links the blog search for Taraji P. Henson, her Instagram, Twitter and Facebook accounts, and her Wikipedia and IMDb reference pages — no personal website is listed. Her page opens the T letter's topics, ahead of the two Taylors, in the index built with this group.
Common Questions
What role brought Taraji P. Henson an Academy Award nomination?
She played Queenie in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
What role does Taraji P. Henson play on Empire?
As of 2015, she stars as Cookie Lyon on the FOX drama series Empire, for which she won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
Where did Taraji P. Henson study acting?
Henson 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).