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List of awards and nominations received by Taraji P. Henson
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This is a list of awards and nominations received by American actress Taraji P. Henson. She has received various awards and nominations, winning one Golden Globe Award, one Critics' Choice Movie Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Additionally, she has been nominated for one Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Daytime Emmy Awards. In 2019, Henson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the motion picture industry.[1][2]
In 2005, she was in Hustle & Flow's cast, which gave her her first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Henson's breakthrough role in the 2008 acclaimed romanticdrama filmThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
She gained wider recognition for her role as on the Fox television series Empire (2009–2015), which earned her a Golden Globe and a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series, becoming the first African-American actress to do so. The television series also garnered her
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Taraji P. Henson
American actress (born 1970)
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Taraji Penda Henson (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). In 2016 and 2024, Time named Henson one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
After studying acting at Howard University, she made her film debut in the crime film Streetwise (1998). Henson gained recognition for playing a prostitute in Hustle & Flow (2005) and a single mother in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). The latter earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2016, she portrayed mathematician Katherine Johnson in Hidden Figures.[1] She has also acted in Baby Boy (2001), The Karate Kid (2010), Think Like a Man (2012), Acrimony (2018), What Men Want (2019), The Best of Enemies (2019), and The Color Purple (2023).
Henson has also had an extensive career in television. From 2011 to 2013, she co-starred as Joss Carter in the CBS drama series Person of Interest. From 2015 to 202