Taraji P. Henson

Taraji P. Henson

Date of Birth: 11 Sep 1970

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 49 (Actor), 1 (Director)

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    Baby Boy
    This is the story of Jody, an unemployed young black man, who's been living with his mother for several years, even though he's got a child of his own. Romantically, he's having relationships with two women: the mother, Yvette of his son, and a new interest. (imdb)
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    Hair Show
    Peaches (Mo'Nique), an award-winning hair stylist from Baltimore, and her estranged sister Angela (Smith) get reacquainted when Peaches visits her sister in Beverly Hills. But the reunion may be bittersweet when Angela finds out Peaches in on the run from the IRS. (UrbanWorks Entertainment)
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    Four Brothers
    After their adoptive mother is murdered during a grocery store holdup, the Mercer brothers -- hotheaded Bobby (Wahlberg), hard-edged Angel (Gibson), family man and businessman Jeremiah (Benjamin) and hard rocking Jack (Hedlund) -- reunite to take the matter of her death into their own hands. As they track down the killer, the four brothers come together to discover that they are bound by ties thicker than blood. (Paramount Pictures)
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    Hustle & Flow
    The redemptive story of a streetwise Memphis hustler trying to find his voice and realize his long-buried dreams. (Paramount Classics / MTV Films)
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    Something New
    A romantic comedy about finding love where its least expected. (Focus Features)
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    Smokin\
    In a series of interlocking tales of high stakes and low lifes, Mob boss Primo Sparazza has taken out a hefty contract on Buddy "Aces" Israel (Piven) -- a sleazy magician who has agreed to turn states evidence against the Vegas mob. The FBI, sensing a chance to use this small-time con to bring down big-target Sparazza, places Aces into protective custody under the supervision of two agents (Reynolds and Liotta) dispatched to Aces' Lake Tahoe hideout. (Universal)
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    Talk to Me
    In the mid-to-late 1960's, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and "tell it like it is." With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig... (imdb)
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    The Family That Preys
    Two families from different walks of life learn to work together. (imdb)
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    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences. (imdb)
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    Not Easily Broken
    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
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    Satan\
    A young woman enrolls at an all-girls college in New England to investigate her sister's suicide and is slowly lured into a witchcraft cult by a quartet of students wanting to make her their fifth member of their evil circle. (imdb)
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    I Can Do Bad All by Myself
    When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of Raymond, her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with the kids. But her attitude begins to change when Sandino, a handsome Mexican immigrant looking for work, moves into April's basement room...
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    Date Night
    Married, middle-aged and with children is hardly a recipe for romance, but Tina Fey and Steve Carrell are determined to keep the spark alive in this Shawn Levy-helmed comedy about a date night gone horribly awry. Joining Fey and Carrell in this ensemble cast film are Mark Wahlberg, who plays a securities expert, James Franco as a slightly slow con man and Leighton Meester as the couple's babysitter.
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    Forehead Tittaes
    Oscar winner Marion Cotillard introduces a new product to help women be taken more seriously in the workplace.
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    The Karate Kid
    Work pressures cause a single mother moves to China with her young son; in his new home, the boy embraces karate, taught to him by a master of the self-defense form.
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    Hurricane Season
    A year after Hurricane Katrina, Al Collins, a high school basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana, assembles a team of players who had previously attended five different schools before the disaster and leads them on the path to the state championships. (imdb)
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    Once Fallen
    A son witnesses his father beat someone to death, then goes to jail at some point. Once he gets out of jail, he wants to change his life around, and finds out he has a son.
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    Larry Crowne
    After being laid off from his longtime job at a soulless retail giant, average middle-aged guy Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) decides it's time to change up his life, so he heads back to college. There, he finds a new perspective -- and a new romance with a professor (Julia Roberts).
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    Think Like a Man
    Four friends conspire to turn the tables on their women when they discover the ladies have been using Steve Harvey's relationship advice against them.
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    The Good Doctor
    Orlando Bloom stars as Dr. Blake, a first year medical resident struggling with loneliness, racked, with self-doubt, and at odds with the head nurse. When a beautiful young patient (Riley Keough) shows him kindness, he will do anything to keep her in his care. (imdb)
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    Think Like a Man Too
    All the couples are back for a wedding in Las Vegas, but plans for a romantic weekend go awry when their various misadventures get them into some compromising situations that threaten to derail the big event. (imdb)
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    No Good Deed
    Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished as she finds herself fighting for survival when he invades her home and terrorizes her family. (imdb)
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    Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story
    This fact-based Lifetime drama follows one mother's,(Tiffany Rubin played by Taraji P. Henson) nightmarish struggle to retrieve the 7-year-old son,(Kobe played by Drew Davis)her ex-husband whisked out of her life when he abducted the boy and took him back to his native South Korea.
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    Boston Legal
    Boston Legal (2004) - TV Series
    This Spinoff of The Practice will focus on Civil Law. (imdb)
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    Empire
    Empire (2015) - TV Series
    A father, who runs a successful music business, is diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease and has to choose one of his three sons to take over when he dies. (imdb)
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    Person of Interest
    An ex-assassin and a wealthy programmer save lives via a surveillance AI that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. However, the details of the crimes--including the civilians' roles--are left a mystery. (imdb)
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    Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade
    When Sid takes a job as an egg nanny, he's unaware an old enemy has plans of his own. The shenanigans lead to the first egg hunt and creation of popular Easter traditions. (imdb)
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    Term Life
    A guy wanted around town by various hit men hopes to stay alive long enough for his life insurance policy to kick in and pay out for his estranged daughter. (imdb)
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    Hidden Figures
    A team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program's first successful space missions.
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    Proud Mary
    Mary (Taraji P. Henson) is a hitwoman working for an organized crime family in Boston. Mary's life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes awry.
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    Tyler Perry\
    A faithful wife (Taraji P. Henson) tired of standing by her devious husband (Lyriq Bent) is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed.
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    Ralph Breaks the Internet
    Six years after the events of "Wreck-It Ralph", Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure.
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    The Best of Enemies
    Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.
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    What Men Want
    A woman is boxed out by the male sports agents in her profession, but gains an unexpected edge over them when she develops the ability to hear men's thoughts. (imdb)
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    Coffee & Kareem
    Twelve-year-old Kareem Manning hires a criminal to scare his mom's new boyfriend -police officer James Coffee - but it backfires, forcing Coffee and Kareem to team up in order to save themselves from Detroit's most ruthless drug kingpin.
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    From the Rough
    Dr. Catana Starks, from historically black university Tennessee State, became the first woman ever to coach an all-men's team at the collegiate level.
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    Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
    Jessica Fletcher Jessica discovers a shocking old family secret that leads her on a journey to the deep South to bring to light the mysterious details surrounding the death of a slave owned by one of her long dead ancestors in the mid-1800s.
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    Minions: The Rise of Gru
    The untold story of one twelve-year-old's dream to become the world's greatest supervillain (IMDb).
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    Mary J Blige\
    Grammy-winning recording artist and actress Mary J. Blige reveals the demons and blessings that inspired her 1994 LP 'My Life,' and celebrates the 25th anniversary of her most influential work by performing the album live for the first time. (imdb)
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    Annie Live!
    Annie Live! (2021) - TV Movie
    A young orphan opens the heart of billionaire Sir Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks. (imdb)
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    Abbott Elementary
    • Mom (2023) - S2 E21
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    The Color Purple
    Musical adaptation of Alice Walker's novel about the life-long struggles of an African American woman living in the south during the early 1900s. (imdb)
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    PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
    A magical meteor crash lands in Adventure City and gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into The Mighty Pups (imdb.com).
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    Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
    A look at the life of poet, Nikki Giovanni and the revolutionary historical periods through which she lived, from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.
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    Oprah and the Color Purple Journey
    Oprah and The Color Purple Journey is a distinctive documentary providing an insider’s view into the production of the 2023 film adaptation of The Color Purple. Presented by producer Oprah Winfrey, known for her role in Beloved, the documentary delves into the contemporary reinterpretation of this seminal work, originally based on Alice Walker’s novel. (comingsoon.net)
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    Top Five
    A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality-TV star fiancé talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her TV show. (imdb)
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    Peep World
    On the day of their Father's 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, that exposes the family's most intimate secrets...
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    The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
    Rocky and Bullwinkle have been living off the finances made from the reruns of their cartoon show. Boris and Natasha somehow manage to crossover into reality and team up with Fearless Leader, an evil criminal turned media mogul with some evil plans up his sleeve. Rocky and Bullwinkle must stop the three of them before they wreak havoc. (imdb)
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    The Division
    The Division (2001) - TV Series
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