Taraji

 Taraji Penda Henson (/t@'ra:dZi/ born on September 11, 1970) is an American actress. After her study of acting at Howard University, she began her Hollywood career as a guest actor in a variety of television shows. Her debut came in Baby Boy (2001). She was a prostitute in Hustle & Flow (2005) and was awarded an Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor Cast in a Motion Picture nomination. She was also the single mother of a disabled child in David Fincher's Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), for which she won Academy Award, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. She starred in Date Night in 2010 and was also a co-star on the remake of The Karate Kid with Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith. In 2011, she was a star in the Lifetime Television film Taken from Me The Tiffany Rubin Story,