Taraji

 Taraji Penda Henson, /t@'ra/dZi/t@-RAH/jee was born on September 11th the 11th of September, 1970. She is an American actor. She trained in acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career with guest roles in a number of TV shows before making her breakthrough with the film Baby Boy (2001). She was a prostitute in Hustle & Flow (2005) for which she won an Screen Actors Guild Award in Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination. In 2008, she played the character of a single mom with a disabled child in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) for which she was nominated for Academy Award, SAG Award, and Critics Choice Award nominations. In 2010, she appeared in the comedy Date Night, and co-starred in the remake of The Karate Kid alongside Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan.Henson has also had an extensive and successful career in the world of television, which includes shows like The Division, Boston Legal and Eli Stone. In 2011, she was a star in the Lifetime Television film Taken from Me The Tiffany Rubin Story, which brought her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Short Series or Movie.