TARAJI PENDA HENSON

 TARAJI PENDA HENSON

Taraji Penda Henson (born September 11, 1970-age 49) is an American actress and author. 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). In 2010, she appeared in the action comedy Date Night, and co-starred in the remake of The Karate Kid.

*Home town: Washington, D.C. U.S

*Spouse(s): -William LaMarr Johnson(died. 2003) -Kelvin Hayden(m. 2018 till date)

*Children: 1

*Net worth: $25 million

*People's Choice Awards: Best Actress in a Drama Series (for Empire-2015), and became the first black actress in the history of the awards show to do so.