Henderson’s recent film work includes Native Son and the upcoming 2020 release of Dune. Previously, his work includes performances in five Oscar® nominated films: Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird; Stephen Spielberg’s Lincoln; Denzel Washington’s Fences, which earned Henderson a Virtuoso Award from the Santa Barbara Film Festival; Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea and Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
In addition to his role in FX’s Devs, Henderson has been seen on television in recurring roles on Wu-Tang: An American Saga and Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom, plus numerous guest starring roles, HBO Films’ Everyday People and the PBS American Playhouse film A Raisin in the Sun.
Henderson’s stage credits include the 2010 revival of Fences, which earned him a Tony Award® nomination and the Richard Seff Award, plus Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Between Riverside and Crazy that garnered him Obie and Lucille Lorel Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor. His additional credits include A Doll’s House, Part 2; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and August Wilson’s Jitney, for which he received a Drama Desk, an Obie and an Audelco Award as a member of the Outstanding Ensemble of the 2000 New York season. In Los Angeles, he also received the NAACP Theatre Award and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his performance as “Turnbo” in that production.
Henderson is a retired professor, former chair of the Department of Theater and Dance for SUNY at Buffalo and a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company. He holds an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Juilliard.
