Taraji Henson

Actress Taraji P. Henson seemed to have the deck stacked against her – failing out of her college engineering major, switching to acting while working days and nights part time to pay for school, then moving to Hollywood with a young son and just $700 in her pocket. After a few more years of struggle, her perseverance paid off, beginning with a role in John Singleton’s “Baby Boy” (2001) and then a breakout performance opposite Terrence Howard in the acclaimed “Hustle & Flow,” (2005), performing her share of the Oscar-winning single,…more