Biography
Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an American actor. Having his first major roles in the 1995 films Dead Presidents and Mr. Holland's Opus, Howard broke into the mainstream with a succession of television and cinema roles between 2004 and 2006. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Hustle & Flow. Howard has had prominent roles in many other movies, including Winnie Mandela, Ray, Lackawanna Blues, Crash, Four Brothers, Big Momma's House, Get Rich or ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Crescent City
2024
as Brian Sutter
When a ruthless serial killer terrorizes a small Southern town, everyone becomes a suspect -- including local authorities. As the body count rises and...

Shirley
2024
as Arthur Hardwick Jr.
Shirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.

Skeletons in the Closet
2024
as Mark
Haunted by a malevolent spirit since childhood, a desperate mother allows herself to become possessed in order to save the life of her terminally ill ...

Skeletons in the Closet
2024
Writer
Haunted by a malevolent spirit since childhood, a desperate mother allows herself to become possessed in order to save the life of her terminally ill ...

A Look Through His Lens
2024
as Self
Oscar-winning cinematographer Philippe Rousselot offers a master class in image making, with insightful examples from his work on Diva, Hope and Glory...

Showdown at the Grand
2023
as George Fuller
A proud movie theater owner must defend his family business from corporate developers alongside a legendary action star as art imitates life in a show...

The System
2022
as Bones
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dan...

The Walk
2022
as Lamont Robbins
In 1974, a Boston Irish cop confronts fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black high school students as they are bused into all-whi...

Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary
2021
Enter the world of First Person View (FPV) drones, where speeds upward of 100 mph and amazing acrobatic feats set these pilots apart. Custom drone des...

Gully
2021
as Mr. Christmas
A slightly dystopian vision of LA, we follow three disaffected teenagers, Jessie, Calvin and Nicky, all victims of extreme childhoods, running supreme...

Triumph
2021
as Coach Cutting
A bright and determined teen who has mild cerebral palsy strives to be a wrestler on his high school's team and to win over the heart of a classmate, ...

Triumph
2021
Executive Producer
A bright and determined teen who has mild cerebral palsy strives to be a wrestler on his high school's team and to win over the heart of a classmate, ...

Cut Throat City
2020
as The Saint
Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. ...

Terrence Howard's Fright Club
2018
Terrence Howard pranks friends and fans by inviting them to his his remote estate in New Orleans where they experience bizarre encounters with swamp m...

Miracle on 42nd Street
2017
as self
The story of Manhattan Plaza, the renowned experiment in subsidized housing catering to people in the arts. Numerous celebrities pay homage to the imp...

Fairy Godmother
2016
as Genio

Cardboard Boxer
2016
as Pope
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.

Term Life
2016
as Sheriff Braydon
If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days, he'll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performi...

St. Vincent
2014
as Zucko
A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.

Lullaby
2014
as Dr. Crier
Estranged from his family, Jonathan (Hedlund) discovers his father has decided to take himself off life support in forty-eight hours’ time. During thi...

Sabotage
2014
as Julius 'Sugar' Edmonds
John 'Breacher' Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-sta...

Take Me to the River
2014
as Himself - Host
Take Me to the River is a film about the soul of American music. The film follows the recording of a new album featuring legends from Stax records and...

The Best Man Holiday
2013
as Quentin
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances t...

Prisoners
2013
as Franklin Birch
Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minute...

The Butler
2013
as Howard
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as...

House of Bodies
2013
as Starks
While indulging his appetite for the grim and gruesome by patronizing a voyeuristic Web site that's based in a house where a serial killer once lived,...

Dead Man Down
2013
as Alphonse
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.

Movie 43
2013
as Coach Jackson (segment "Victory's Glory")
A series of interconnected short films are the backdrop for a maniac screenwriter who pitches insane storylines featuring some of Hollywood's biggest ...

The Company You Keep
2012
as FBI Agent Cornelius
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.

Croom
2012
An insightful look at Sylvester Croom, the first African-American center at the University of Alabama and one of the school's first black players. Aft...

On the Road
2012
as Walter
Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows...

Red Tails
2012
as Col. A.J. Bullard
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

Bob Ross: The Happy Painter
2011
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the beloved public television personality's journey from humble beginnings to an American pop-culture icon. "The Happy Pai...

Winnie Mandela
2011
as Nelson Mandela
A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.

The Ledge
2011
as Hollis Lucetti
A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.

Little Murder
2011
as Drag Hammerman
In post-Katrina New Orleans, a disgraced detective encounters the ghost of a murdered woman who wants to help him identify her killer.

Magic in the Bayou: The Making of a Princess
2010
as Self
Featurette on the making of Disney's Princess and the Frog

The Princess and the Frog
2009
as James (voice)
A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to f...

Fighting
2009
as Harvey Boarden
Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck chan...

B.B. King | Live
2009
as Self
Recorded in High-Definition for the PBS concert series Soundstage, this unforgettable performance features staggering renditions of "Thrill is Gone" a...

2008 Philadelphia Phillies: The Official World Series Film
2008
as narrator
The Philadelphia Phillies are World Series champions! Major League Baseball Productions and Shout Factory! present the Official 2008 World Series Film...

I Am Iron Man
2008
as Self
A documentary covering pre-production topics like suit design and construction, storyboards, animatics, and pre-viz, sets, working in the suit, castin...

Iron Man
2008
as Rhodey
After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.

The Perfect Holiday
2007
as Bah Humbug
Nancy Taylor, a divorced mother of three, feels especially lonely during the holidays. All she wants for Christmas is to meet a nice man - even just a...

Awake
2007
as Dr. Jack Harper
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the oper...

August Rush
2007
as Richard Jeffries
Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, h...

The Brave One
2007
as Detective Mercer
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

The Hunting Party
2007
as Duck
A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling ou...

Pride
2007
as Jim Ellis
Coach Jim Ellis shocks the community and changes lives when, aided by a local janitor, he sets out to form Philadelphia's first black swim team. But t...

Motherland Afghanistan
2007
as Narrator
Afghani-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi shadows her father, a women's health specialist working to rebuild hospitals in war-torn Afghanistan, in th...

Idlewild
2006
as Trumpy
A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the Prohibition-...

Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005
as Bama
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

Four Brothers
2005
as Lt. Green
Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.

Hustle & Flow
2005
as Djay
With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.

Crash
2005
as Cameron Thayer
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a...

Animal
2005
as Darius Allen
His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a maximum security prison, he meets a revolutionary who cha...

Their Eyes Were Watching God
2005
as Amos Hicks
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the mor...

Lackawanna Blues
2005
as Bill Crosby
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he liv...

The Salon
2005
as Patrick
A Beauty shop owner finds romance as she struggles to save her business.

Ray
2004
as Gossie McGee
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make h...

Love Chronicles
2003
as T-Roy
A disc jockey invites a relationship therapist as an on-air guest. They explore LA relationship struggles through three different callers' unbelievabl...

Biker Boyz
2003
as Chu Chu (as Terrence Dashon Howard)
A mythic motorcycle tale of father and son", this is the story of Manuel Galloway, also known as "the King of Cali", the president of a motorcycle clu...

Intimate Affairs
2002
as Lorenz
Edgar organizes a salon on the topic of sexuality and arranges to use the lavish estate of Faldo as a venue. In light of the overwhelming brilliance o...

Hart's War
2002
as Lt. Lincoln A. Scott
When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlistin...

Glitter
2001
as Timothy Walker
A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.

Angel Eyes
2001
as Robby
A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to sav...

Boycott
2001
as Ralph Abernathy
This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love Beat the Hell Outta Me
2000
as Chris
Four friends play an evening game of dominoes, drink, and talk about women. Each one is going through or has recently experienced a painful breakup. W...

Love Beat the Hell Outta Me
2000
Executive Producer
Four friends play an evening game of dominoes, drink, and talk about women. Each one is going through or has recently experienced a painful breakup. W...

Big Momma's House
2000
as Lester Vesco
When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate...

Muhammad Ali: King of the World
2000
as Cassius Clay
It is just possible that the made-for-TV biopic Muhammad Ali: King of the World was hastily pieced together to capitalize on the popular theatrical do...

The Best Man
1999
as Quentin
After writing a soon-to-be bestselling novel, writer and committed bachelor Harper attempts to hide the fact that his saucy new book is loosely based ...

Best Laid Plans
1999
as Jimmy
Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really...

Valerie Flake
1999
as Hitchhiker
A boozing, recently widowed young woman gives every one she comes into contact with a hard time. She moves back home with her in-laws, where she is pu...

Butter
1998
as Dexter Banks (as Terrence Dashon Howard)
Corrupt record company executives kill a singing sensation with a drug overdose rather than letting her leave their label and join another company. Th...

The Players Club
1998
as K.C.
Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, D...

Spark
1998
as Byron
Byron and Nina, a young African American couple, are driving from Chicago to Los Angeles, where Nina plans to start college, when they are forced to s...

Double Tap
1997
as Ulysses
A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.

Johns
1996
as Jimmy the Warlock
It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night a...

Sunset Park
1996
as Spaceman
A school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.

Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
as Louis Russ
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his tru...

Dead Presidents
1995
as Cowboy
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself ...

The O.J. Simpson Story
1995
as Young A.C.
Dramatizes some of the more tawdry events in the relationship between O.J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown, up to and including his arrest for Brow...

Who's the Man?
1993
as Customer
Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as fa...
The Movers
N/A
The film centers around a close-knit family who moves into a seemingly charming neighborhood, only to discover that all is not what it appears. As the...
Selfie
N/A
A PG-13 action comedy that embodies MEAN GIRLS in a Tarantino tone targeting the centennial market that will encapsulate and define the pop culture of...

BFFs
N/A
Two best friends play practical jokes on each other until things get out of hand.