Taraji

 araji Penda Henson(/t@'ra:dZior t@-RAH-jee, born September 11 in 1970) is an American actress. After her training in acting at Howard University, she began her Hollywood career as a guest actress on a variety of TV shows. She made her debut in Baby Boy (2001). She played a prostitute on Hustle & Flow (2005), for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance in an Actor Cast in a Motion Picture nomination. She was also a single mother of a disabled child in David Fincher's Case of Benjamin Button (2008) which for which she received Academy Award, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. In 2010, she starred in the action comedy Date Night, and co-starred in the remake of The Karate Kid alongside Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan.Henson has also enjoyed an extensive and successful career in television, including series such as The Division, Boston Legal and Eli Stone. She starred in Taken From Me the first Lifetime Television movie.