Age: 55
female
Taraji P. Henson (born September 11, 1970) is an American actress, producer and singer. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career as guest star on several television shows before making her breakthrough in the movie Baby Boy (2001). In 2005, she starred in Hustle & Flow and played Queenie in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), for which she received an Academy Award nomination. In 2016, Time named Henson one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual Time 100 list. Henson also released an autobiography titled Around The Way Girl.
She was not stolen. She was not a victim. She was a goddess discovering that her nature was larger than her mother's garden. The most faithful, psychologically rich retelling of the Proserpina myth ever produced — and a deliberate corrective to centuries of misrepresentation. Proserpina is not abducted; she is drawn to the Underworld by her own divine nature (as goddess of spring's return, she is inherently connected to the cycle of descent and renewal) and by genuine curiosity about the domain her uncle Pluto governs. Pluto is portrayed throughout as a figure of exceptional honor: patient, deeply fair, constitutionally incapable of coercion. The pomegranate seeds are Proserpina's informed choice. Their relationship builds from formal acquaintance to intellectual companionship to genuine love — two divine beings who are surprised to find an equal. Mercury (Mercurius) serves as the inter-realm negotiator and the series' sharpest comedic voice. Ceres's grief is treated with full weight without making Pluto its villain. S2E1 — The Garden's Edge Proserpina drawn to the Underworld's threshold by her own nature — the goddess of return cannot fully exist without understanding descent. S2E6 — The Pomegranate Proserpina understands what eating the seeds means. She eats them with full, deliberate knowledge. Pluto watches and says nothing — he will not influence her choice. His expression when she does is the episode's defining image. S2E12 — Two Thrones The arrangement reached: six months each realm. Proserpina facing Ceres and saying, gently but completely, that she chose her life. The world understands seasons for the first time.
