Taraji P. Henson Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Taraji P. Henson filmography covers 44 movie titles and 28 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Taraji P. Henson movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000) as Left-Wing Student
• Baby Boy (2001) as Yvette
• Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001) as Bess Pinckney
• Animal (2005) as Ramona
• Four Brothers (2005) as Camille Mercer
• Hustle & Flow (2005) as Shug
• Smokin' Aces (2006) as Sharice Watters
• Something New (2006) as Nedra
• Talk to Me (2007) as Vernell Watson
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) as Queenie
• Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (2008) as Pam
• I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) as April
• Not Easily Broken (2009) as Clarice Clark
• The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button (2009) as Self
• Date Night (2010) as Detective Arroyo
• Hurricane Season (2010) as Dayna Collins
• Once Fallen (2010) as Pearl
• Peep World (2010) as Mary
• The Karate Kid (2010) as Sherry Parker
• Larry Crowne (2011) as B'Ella
• Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story (2011) as Tiffany Rubin
• The Good Doctor (2011) as Nurse Theresa
• Think Like a Man (2012) as Lauren Harris
• Madly Madagascar (2013) as Okapi (voice)
• No Good Deed (2014) as Terry
• Think Like a Man Too (2014) as Lauren Harris
• Top Five (2014) as Taraji P. Henson
• Hidden Figures (2016) as Katherine G. Johnson
• Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade (2016) as Ethel (voice)
• Term Life (2016) as Samantha Thurman
• Acrimony (2018) as Melinda Moore Gayle
• Proud Mary (2018) as Mary
• Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) as Yesss (voice)
• The Best of Enemies (2019) as Ann Atwater
• This Changes Everything (2019) as Self
• What Men Want (2019) as Alison 'Ali' Davis
• Coffee & Kareem (2020) as Vanessa Manning
• Mary J. Blige's My Life (2021) as Self
• Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021) as The Bride
• Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) as Belle Bottom (voice)
• Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4 (2022) as Self
• PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023) as Victoria Vance (voice)
• The Color Purple (2023) as Shug Avery
• STRAW (2025) as Janiyah Wiltkinson

Taraji P. Henson television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Taraji P. Henson; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Abbott Elementary as Vanetta
• All of Us
• Boston Legal as Whitney Rome
• Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
• Celebrity Family Feud as Self - Contestant
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Christina
• Eli Stone as Angela Scott
• Empire as Cookie Lyon
• ER as Patrice Robbins; Elan
• Felicity as R.A. #2; Art Student
• Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist as Vivian Thoma
• Half & Half as Gabrielle
• History 101 as Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood Game Night as Self
• House as Moira
• Legendary as Self - Guest Judge
• Lip Sync Battle as Self
• Pacific Blue as Rhonda
• Person of Interest as Joss Carter
• Project Runway as Self - Guest Judge
• RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge
• RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked as Self - Guest
• Saved by the Bell: The New Class as Girl
• Sister, Sister as Briana
• Smart Guy as Monique; Leslie
• The Cleveland Show
• The Masked Singer as Self - Panelist
• The Simpsons as Praline (voice)

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Taraji P. Henson's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.