As of 2015, she stars as Cookie Lyon on the Fox drama series "Empire", for which she became the first African-American woman to win a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.
As of 2015, she stars as Cookie Lyon on the Fox drama series "Empire". In 2015 she made history by becoming the first African-American woman to win a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.