Lee Daniels is mourning the loss of his sister Lydia, who inspired Taraji P. Henson's Empire character Loretha "Cookie" Lyon.

The scholarship helped Henson finish college, which propelled her further in her career. Henson credits Rashad, her sister ...

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Lee Daniels took to Instagram on Jan. 10 to pay tribute to his younger sister, Lydia Ruth Daniels-Rooks, who recently passed ...

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“She was also my best friend,” he added, noting that she helped inspire the larger-than-life matriarch Taraji P. Henson played on Daniels’ 2015–2020 Fox series Empire. “In ...