“Janiyah did scare me a lot…,” Henson told PEOPLE ahead of the movie's release. “I was drawn to this character because I love giving a voice to the voiceless.

As Janiyah wrestles with the heartbreaking loss of her daughter, tension escalates outside the bank where she's holed up. An FBI extraction team moves in, ready to storm the building, ...

Janiyah actually does identify this moment as her breaking point. Specifically, the character has dialogue wherein she says that something inside her "broke" and she has not felt the same since.

The new Tyler Perry movie on Netflix, Straw, is a tense, emotional thriller that takes over the course of one very bad day for protagonist Janiyah Wiltkinson. Played by Oscar-nominated actor ...

Janiyah was a 3-year-old girl who died of severe injuries from child abuse. Gregory Parker and Crystal Brooks, Janiyah’s mother, were charged in connection to the toddler’s death.