She starred in the ensemble films Think Like a Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel.

From 2011 to 2013, she co-starred as Detective Jocelyn Carter in the CBS drama Person of Interest, for which she won an NAACP Image Award. In 2011, she starred in the Lifetime Television film Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story, which brought her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. Henson has also had an extensive and successful career in television, including series such as The Division, Boston Legal and Eli Stone.

In 2010, she appeared in the action comedy Date Night, and co-starred in the remake of The Karate Kid alongside Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan.

She played a prostitute in Hustle & Flow (2005), for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination and a single mother of a disabled child in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), for which she received Academy Award, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career in guest roles on several television shows before making her breakthrough in Baby Boy (2001). Taraji Penda Henson ( / t ə ˈ r ɑː dʒ i/ tə- RAH-jee born September 11, 1970) is an American actress. Henson on mental health treatment within the African American community. Desir will be back in court for a bail hearing next week.Taraji P. 'He just went to a party at Iona College – at his college - and just come home waited on his ride to come home.'Ī memorial service for Lawrence was being planned at Iona College. 'He'd go to work, he'd go to church, he'd go to school,' Denise Young said. Meanwhile, the victim's family struggled to make sense of it all. Police as of late Monday had not found the gun used in the shooting.ĭesir's friends and supporters hid their faces as they left the courthouse and said nothing. He was arrested based on information from witnesses, police said. Stivenson Desir is charged in the slaying of Iona College student Brandon Lawrence, 19, in New Rochelle on Sunday, April 3, 2016. The suspect – Stevenson Desir, 19 – decided to stay in his holding cell to avoid TV cameras. His first court appearance came Monday afternoon on a charge of murder. Police arrested their suspect at his home in New Rochelle.

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