Taraji, you better WERK! After being nominated for an Oscar and several other awards for The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons and contributing to Three Six Mafia winning a Grammy for “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp” people were wondering what she would do next and starring in a Lifetime Original Movie wasn’t what everyone expected. HOWEVER, she WERKS IT in this film. WERKS IT! She is giving me all kinds of LIFE in this movie. LIFE, honey! LIFE! Girl, you better WERRRRRRK!!! She will most certainly be getting a Golden Globe, Emmy, and SAG nomination if not a WIN her portrayal of Tiffany Rubins. Terry O’Quinn and Beverly Todd star alongside Taraji.

Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story premieres Monday, January 31st at 9pm/8pm. It centers on Tiffany Rubin’s 2008 rescue of her seven-year-old son Kobe.  Kobe had been the subject of a custody dispute between Rubin and her ex-husband, a South Korea native. In the summer of 2007, after a visit to his father’s Brooklyn apartment, Kobe was whisked away by him to South Korea. With little help from the authorities and no money to hire a private investigator, Rubin, a public school teacher in Queens, turned to Mark Miller, founder of the non-profit organization The American Association for Lost Children. He located Kobe in a town near Seoul and he and Rubin traveled there, launching a survailance operation to chart Kobe’ daily schedule. After a careful planning, one day Rubin went into her son’s school and was able to snatch him. The two, along with Miller, ran to the U.S. Embassy before being able to return home safely.

Photo Credit: Bob Akester 2010