Brooke Burke

 Taraji Penda Henson[1][2] [/t@’ra:dZi/t@-RAH–jee 11 September 1970] is an American actor from America. She was a student at Howard University and began her Hollywood career as a guest in a number of TV shows before becoming a star in Baby Boy (2001). She was a prostitute in Hustle & Flow (2005) for which she won an award called the Screen Actors Guild Award in Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination. In 2008, she portrayed the role of a single mother with a child who is disabled in David Fincher's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (2008) for which she received Critics Choice Award, SAG Award as well as Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. In 2010, she appeared in the comedy Date Night, and co-starred in the remake of The Karate Kid alongside Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan.Henson has also enjoyed an extensive and successful career in television, including shows such as The Division, Boston Legal and Eli Stone. She starred in Taken from Me: Tiffany Rubin Story for Lifetime Television in 2011, which led to her being nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award as Outstanding Lead actress in a limited series or movie. She was a part of Person of Interest from 2011 until 2013. For this, she was awarded an NAACP Image Award. She was a part of the ensemble film Think Like a Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel. She made her debut as Cookie Lyon on the drama series on Fox Empire in the year 2015. In 2015, she was the first African-American woman on television to win the Critics' Choice Television Award for the Best Actress in a Drama Series. She also won the Golden Globe Award; and was nominated for Emmy Awards in 2015 and 2016.