Taraji P. Henson’s been doing well as the front-woman of Hidden Figures, but it’s still Empire‘s Cookie she’s best-loved for, and with good reason. As a mom constantly juggling between saving her children and her devious husband from each other, Cookie’s got it tough, but she never crumbles. The matriarch of the Lyon clan is fierce, both in dress sense and family pride, and with equal airtime given to her schemes and her love of her independence, in many ways Cookie is the ideal woman of the 21st century.
