
Filmography

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Jonah Dekker

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self

Empire
2015 · Lucious Lyon

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Self, Self - Guest

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self

The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 · Self

Hawaii Five-0
2010 · Billy

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Self, Self - Guest

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Self

Family Matters
1989 · John

Coach
1989 · Johnny Williams

Iron Man
2008 · Rhodey

Lip Sync Battle
2015 · Self

Celebrity Family Feud
2015 · Self

Today
1952 · Self

Living Single
1993 · Brendan

New York Undercover
1994 · Actor

The Oscars
1953 · Self

The Jay Leno Show
2009 · Self

Prisoners
2013 · Franklin Birch

Live from E!
2002 · Self

The Princess and the Frog
2009 · James (voice)

Law & Order: LA
2010 · Jonah Dekker

Wayward Pines
2015 · Sheriff Pope

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017 · George

Beat Shazam
2017 · Self

Street Time
2002 · Lucius Mosley

Fastlane
2002 · Alton White

Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016 · Actor

Soundstage
2003 · Self

Crash
2005 · Cameron Thayer

The Jacksons: An American Dream
1992 · Jackie Jackson (adult)

Sparks
1996 · Greg Sparks

Soul Food
2000 · Benny Jones

Awake
2007 · Dr. Jack Harper

Movie 43
2013 · Coach Jackson (segment "Victory's Glory")

Big Momma's House
2000 · Lester Vesco

Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005 · Bama

Four Brothers
2005 · Lt. Green

Ray
2004 · Gossie McGee

The Butler
2013 · Howard

St. Vincent
2014 · Zucko

August Rush
2007 · Richard Jeffries

Red Tails
2012 · Col. A.J. Bullard

Sabotage
2014 · Julius "Sugar" Edmonds

The Best Man: The Final Chapters
2022 · Quentin

The Brave One
2007 · Detective Mercer

The Company You Keep
2012 · FBI Agent Cornelius

Dead Man Down
2013 · Alphonse

Dead Presidents
1995 · Cowboy

On the Road
2012 · Walter

Biker Boyz
2003 · Chu Chu (as Terrence Dashon Howard)

Hart's War
2002 · Lt. Lincoln A. Scott

Mr. Holland's Opus
1995 · Louis Russ

Angel Eyes
2001 · Robby

Term Life
2016 · Sheriff Braydon

The Best Man Holiday
2013 · Quentin

Hustle & Flow
2005 · Djay

The Ledge
2011 · Hollis Lucetti

The System
2022 · Bones

Mama Flora's Family
1998 · Lincoln

Fighting
2009 · Harvey Boarden

Taraji's White Hot Holidays
2015 · Himself - Host

The Best Man
1999 · Quentin

Unsung Hollywood
TBA · Actor

The Hunting Party
2007 · Duck

Cut Throat City
2020 · The Saint

Shirley
2024 · Arthur Hardwick Jr.

Gully
2021 · Mr. Christmas

Glitter
2001 · Timothy Walker

Las increíbles aventuras de un Hada Madrina
2020 · Genio

The Players Club
1998 · K.C.

Pride
2007 · Jim Ellis

Crescent City
2024 · Brian Sutter

Lullaby
2014 · Dr. Crier

Cardboard Boxer
2016 · Pope

Triumph
2021 · Coach Cutting, Executive Producer

Who's the Man?
1993 · Customer

Best Laid Plans
1999 · Jimmy

Butter
1998 · Dexter Banks

Boycott
2001 · Ralph Abernathy

Showdown at the Grand
2023 · George Fuller

Sunset Park
1996 · Spaceman

Tall Hopes
1993 · Chester Harris

Intimate Affairs
2002 · Lorenz

Animal
2005 · Darius Allen

Their Eyes Were Watching God
2005 · Amos Hicks

Winnie Mandela
2011 · Nelson Mandela

Little Murder
2011 · Drag Hammerman

Double Tap
1997 · Ulysses

The Movers
TBA · Robert Hartley

House of Bodies
2013 · Starks

Lackawanna Blues
2005 · Bill Crosby

Idlewild
2006 · Trumpy

Skeletons in the Closet
2024 · Mark, Writer

Bob Ross: The Happy Painter
2011 · Self

The Walk
2022 · Lamont Robbins

The O.J. Simpson Story
1995 · Young A.C.

A Good Hand Wasted
2026 · Marcus
Turnbuckle
TBA · Actor, Executive Producer

Take Me to the River
2014 · Himself - Host

BFFs
2025 · Actor

Valerie Flake
1999 · Hitchhiker

Johns
1996 · Jimmy the Warlock

B.B. King | Live
2009 · Self

Miami Nights
TBA · David Wolfe

The Perfect Holiday
2007 · Bah Humbug

Miracle on 42nd Street
2017 · Self
A Look Through His Lens
2024 · Self

Love Beat the Hell Outta Me
2000 · Chris, Executive Producer

The Salon
2005 · Patrick

Lotto Land
1995 · Warren

Motherland Afghanistan
2007 · Narrator

Muhammad Ali: King of the World
2000 · Cassius Clay

Terrence Howard's Fright Club
2018 · Actor
Broken Ones
TBA · Benjamin Drake

Magic in the Bayou: The Making of a Princess
2010 · Self

Flowstate: The FPV Drone Documentary
2021 · Actor

Fairy Godmother
2016 · Genio

Spark
1998 · Byron
Selfie
TBA · Actor

Love Chronicles
2003 · T-Roy

Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita
2007 · Self

Croom
2012 · Narrator (voice)
2008 Philadelphia Phillies: The Official World Series Film
2008 · narrator