Birth Name : Taraji Penda Henson
Date of Birth : 11 September 1970, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Height : 5' 5" (1.65 m)
Occupation : Actress, singer
Henson was born in Southeast Washington, D.C., the daughter of Bernice Gordon, a corporate manager at Woodward & Lothrop, and Boris Henson, a janitor and fabricator. She is a relative of Matthew Henson, discoverer of the Geographic North Pole. Her first and middle name are of Swahili origin, taraji meaning hope. Henson spent summers at her grandparents' house in suburban Southern Maryland. She attended Oxon Hill High School in Oxon Hill, Maryland. She first attended NC A&T, where she started a major in Electrical Engineering.
In the fall of that year, Henson returned to series television to join the cast of ABC's multiple Emmy-nominated law dramedy, "Boston Legal" (ABC, 2004-08), playing a new addition to the Crane Poole & Schmidt law firm. Following an appearance in the ensemble cast of the successful Tyler Perry outing "The Family That Preys" (2008), Henson received some of the greatest praise of her career for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008). Loosely based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the David Fincher-directed film chronicled the reverse life of a man (Brad Pitt) born elderly who grows younger with time, with Henson co-starring as the adoptive mother who finds the discarded "newborn" on the steps of the nursing home where she works. In a film populated by A-listers, Henson made an indelible impression with her portrayal of the kindly Southerner, earning Best Supporting Actress nominations from the Screen Actor's Guild, the Image Awards and the Critic's Choice awards. But most significantly, Henson received her first nomination at the Academy Awards.
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