Salary Taraji P. Henson

AJC Jun 2019: The “Empire” star revealed Tyler Perry was the first studio head to give her half a million dollars for a role.

Refinery29: In drama, Kerry Washington, Viola Davis, and Taraji P. Henson were the only women of color to make the list. The former two are estimated to be making $250,000 per episode of their ABC hit series while Henson makes around $175,000 for Empire. Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel made $750,000 per episode of the short Gilmore Girls reboot. But Mark Harmon came in at $525,000 per episode of NCIS.

Cheatsheet: Outside of acting, Henson has credits as a producer. Furthermore, Henson is a published author.

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• Text: AJC
• Text: Cheatsheet
• Text: Wikipedia

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Update: 2020-1