Taraji P. Henson Makes History with Hidden Figures
Shedding light on those figures that history overlooks and the kind of mathematical figures needed to send someone into space, Hidden Figures, tells the story of the women behind John Glenn’s first trip into space and back in 1962.
The film chronicles Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), the brilliant mathematician who worked with Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) as some of the main brains behind the man remembered as the first American to orbit the Earth.
The space race and race relations drama is directed by Ted Melfi with writer Allison Schroeder adapting Margot Lee Shetterly's book Hidden Figures: The Story Of The African-American Women Who Helped Win The Space Race.
Kirsten Dunst, Mahershala Ali and Jim Parsons are also all in the cast. The film will take off and then land in UK cinemas on 24 February.
