Taraji Henson earned an Academy Award Nominee for Best Supporting Actress opposite Brad Pitt in David Fincher’s highly acclaimed The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. She is currently filming Date Night with Tina Fey and Steve Carrell on location in New York City. She next stars in Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself, which will be released by Lionsgate on September 11, 2009. In July, she travels to Beijing to co-star with Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan in the new “Karate Kid” for Columbia. Rainn Wilson is Taraji’s love interest in the just-completed indie comedy Peep World, also starring Sarah Silverman.

She recently starred in Sony’s Not Easily Broken opposite Morris Chestnut. She stars opposite Forest Whitaker and Lil’ Wayne in the upcoming Hurricane Season from the Weinstein Company and in the indie drama Once Fallen with Ed Harris and Brian Presley. She starred in Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys with Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard. She was also a regular on David E. Kelly’s Boston Legal and had a recurring role on ABC’s Eli Stone.

Taraji can currently be seen in Jamie Foxx’s video for his latest single, “Just Like Me” and also appeared in Estelle’s video for “Pretty Please.”

Henson received rave reviews for her role in Focus Features’ Talk to Me opposite Don Cheadle. Henson was named Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Feature Film at the 2005 Black Movie Awards and received the Best Actress nod at the 2006 BET Awards for her performance as Shug in the gutsy drama Hustle & Flow, produced by Oscar-nominated filmmaker John Singleton, and also starring Terrence Howard. She received two nominations at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards including Best Breakthrough Performance. Henson co-starred in the ensemble action drama Smokin’ Aces with Jeremy Piven, Alicia Keys, and Ben Affleck.

Henson made her singing debut in Hustle & Flow, is featured on the soundtrack, and performed the Oscar-winning song “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” at the 78th annual Academy Awards. She reunited for the third time with John Singleton to film Four Brothers with Mark Wahlberg and Andre 3000 for Paramount Pictures. Henson co-starred with Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker in Focus Features’ Something New. Henson is well remembered for her role as Yvette, the beautiful girlfriend of Jody (Tyrese) in Baby Boy, a Columbia Pictures feature, written, produced, and directed by John Singleton.

For three years, Henson starred as Raina Washington, the youngest female detective on Lifetime’s The Division. She co-starred in the CBS movie Murder She Wrote Movie: The Last Free Man, starring Angela Lansbury and Phylicia Rashad. On series television, she has appeared in featured roles on ER, Strong Medicine, CSI, House, and others.

Born and raised in Washington, D.C., the Howard University grad resides in Los Angeles and enjoys fashion, reading poetry, dancing, and appreciates a variety of music genres. Henson has a strong passion for helping disabled and less fortunate children and reveals, “I always stress to kids to have faith in themselves—the greatest recipe for success is self confidence.”