Terrence Dashon Howard born March 11 1969 is an American actor Having his first major roles in the 1995 films Dead Presidents and Mr Hollands 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 Mommas House Get Rich or Die Tryin Idlewild Biker Boyz August Rush The Brave One and Prisoners Howard played James Rhodey Rhodes in the first Iron Man film He starred as the lead character Lucious Lyon in the television series Empire His debut album Shine Through It was released in September 2008 Description above is from the Wikipedia article Terrence Howard licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia