FrameThrower · Actors · Taraji P. Henson
Taraji P. Henson
4 films · 262 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2008–2023
Born 11 September 1970 · Washington, D.C., USA
Taraji P. Henson is an American actress, producer and singer. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career as guest star on several television shows before making her breakthrough in the movie Baby Boy (2001). In 2005, she starred in Hustle & Flow and played Queenie in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), for which she received an Academy Award nomination.
In 2016, Time named Henson one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual Time 100 list. Henson also released an autobiography titled Around The Way Girl.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 262 frames · top-billed in 3 · 2008–2023
- Women of the Year2024
- Crystal Award2016
- Lucy Award2016
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series2014
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special2012
- BET Award for Best Actor & Actress2011
- BET Award for Best Actor & Actress2009
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture2009
- BET Award for Best Actor & Actress2006
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 262 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Taraji takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 44% of their frames are night — the look of the work Taraji takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 262 frames from Taraji P. Henson's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.