While some well-known persons choose to keep their private lives, including those of their children and families, private, others do not. Taraji P. Henson is one of the latter.
She has freely talked about her son and proudly showcased him over the years.
Taraji is a mother, and she has been for a very long time—far longer than her professional career.
Her son, Marcell Johnson, is 27 years old. She had him in 1994 with her high school sweetheart, William Lamarr Johnson, who was tragically killed in 2003 while being stabbed at an intervention for his friend. The boy was 9 years old at the time.
Taraji P. Henson children: Marcell Johnson
She had a difficult time juggling her acting job and being there for her child as a single mother raising her child. Thankfully, everything worked out nicely in the end, and we enjoy seeing how far she has come.
In addition to his work in the sound department for the film Little, he is a model and an actor who co-starred with his mother in roughly 16 episodes of the Empire series.
In the show, he went under the name “Marcel” and pretended to be one of Hakeem’s homies. His films include A Girl Like Her, Misled, and Needlestick, among others.
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