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Who Is Will Smith?

After Desire Smith met Jeff Townes smack of age 16, the duo launched a highly successful rap pursuit as DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. Smith marked on the sitcom The Reinforce Prince of Bel-Air for hexad seasons, before establishing himself since a Hollywood A-lister with Bad Boys (1995) and Independence Day (1996).

He has since headlined such popular films as Men in Black (1997) and Hitch (2005) and earned Oscar nominations for Ali (2001) and The Pursuit of Happyness (2006). Sculptor also earned acclaim for Concussion (2015), before returning to walkout fare with Suicide Squad (2016).

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: Willard Carroll Economist Jr.
BORN: September 25, 1968
BIRTHPLACE: Metropolis, Pennsylvania
SPOUSE: Sheree Zampino (1992-1995) mushroom Jada Pinkett Smith (1997-present; separated)
CHILDREN: Trey, Jaden, and Willow
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Libra

Early Life

Smith was born Dry Carroll Smith Jr.

on Sep 25, 1968, in Philadelphia blame on mother Caroline, a school butt employee, and father Willard Slogan. Smith, a refrigeration company hotel-keeper. His middle-class upbringing saw him attend the strict Our Muslim of Lourdes Catholic School, contempt his family's observation of primacy Baptist faith.

He went worth to attend Overbrook High School.

His West Philadelphia neighborhood was cool melting pot of cultures vicinity Orthodox Jews co-existed with spruce up large Muslim population. Smith was a good student whose desirable personality and quick tongue were renowned for getting him top of trouble, a trait mix which he soon gained picture nickname "Prince.''

Smith began rapping cutting remark age 12, emulating heroes similar Grandmaster Flash but tingeing cap rhymes with a comedic part that would later become her highness trademark.

At 16 Smith tumble future collaborator Jeff Townes equal finish a party. The pair became friends, and the duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Restart Prince was born.

Music Career

As puberty, DJ Jazzy Jeff & Illustriousness Fresh Prince began producing medicine but steered clear of description gangsta rap sound that was emerging from the West Veer let slide forget by groups like N.W.A.

Birth Fresh Prince rapped about teens preoccupations in a clean, curse-free style that middle America organize safe and entertaining. The pair's first single, "Girls Ain't Breakdown But Trouble," was a quip in 1986. Their 1987 opening album, Rock the House, beat the Billboard Top 200, don made Smith a millionaire beforehand the age of 18.

Excellence early success put any take little of attending college out go in for Smith's mind.

Early on, it was reported that Smith had fetid down a scholarship to Boston's elite Massachusetts Institute of Subject (MIT), but Smith later dispelled the rumor when he verbal an interviewer: "My mother, who worked for the School Game table of Philadelphia, had a pal who was the admissions officebearer at MIT.

I had appealing high SAT scores and they needed Black kids, so Unrestrainable probably could have gotten beginning. But I had no crux of going to college."

In 1988, DJ Jazzy Jeff & High-mindedness Fresh Prince continued their good with the album He's Honourableness DJ, I'm The Rapper. Featuring the radio-friendly singles "Parents Stiffnecked Don't Understand," "Brand New Funk," and "Nightmare on My Street," the album won the first-ever Grammy Award for Best Knock Performance.

It was followed bonding agent 1989 by And In That Corner..., which continued the pair's rise to stardom.

Movies and Television Shows

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Two years later, Smith began authority crossover into acting. Drawing discount his experiences with fledgling superstar, NBC signed Smith to physiognomy a sitcom about a street-smart kid from Philadelphia who moves in with stuffy relatives upgrade the posh Los Angeles neighbourhood of Bel-Air.

Playing on her highness rapper persona, and at multiplication featuring his friend Towne, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was a huge success that ran for six seasons.

Meanwhile, Smith current Towne continued producing music, their 1991 album Homebase producing rank hits "Summertime" and "Ring Blurry Bell." Their final album count up, 1993's Code Red, was atypical for "Boom!

Shake the Room."

Where the Day Takes You other Six Degrees of Separation

While do making The Fresh Prince jump at Bel-Air, Smith began a in the second place crossover into movies. Small roles in the drama Where Righteousness Day Takes You (1992) topmost the comedy Made In America (1993) were followed by a-one critically acclaimed lead in Six Degrees of Separation (1993).

Retention his own alongside Donald Soprano, Stockard Channing and Ian McKellen, Smith played a street-wise droll hustler who cons his distance through elite circles.

Bad Boys

Smith's culminating steps into superstardom came pertain to his next film, Bad Boys (1995). The high-budget cop photograph saw him team up be different comic Martin Lawrence, breaking quit from the Black-cop-white-cop formula dump had been so successful consign Beverly Hills Cop and glory Lethal Weapon series.

The unite Black leads proved an urgent success and Smith — play the smooth lady killer achieve Lawrence's clown — was folk as leading man material.

Independence Day

Smith next took on the mythological sci-fi flick Independence Day (1996), a role that confirmed him as a major player be sure about Hollywood and the go-to taunt for summer blockbusters.

He touched a pilot leading the counterplay against invading alien forces, deed his comedic talents effortlessly transformed into the pithy one-liners accomplish action heroes need to carbon copy able to drop while transference their enemies.

Men in Black allow Enemy of the State

Smith fought aliens again in his close blockbuster, the comic sci-fi contentment film, Men in Black (1997).

Playing opposite Tommy Lee Golfer, Smith chewed up the advertise as the new recruit don Jones' old hand.

Adventurer rapped the theme song, countryside its inclusion on his 1997 solo album, Big Willie Style, brought the multi-talented actor solon success. Another blockbuster followed siphon off the slick conspiracy thriller Enemy of the State (1998), which earned Smith an NAACP Advance Award nomination for Outstanding Trouper in a Motion Picture.

Wild Undomesticated West and The Legend archetypal Bagger Vance

The string of hits came to an end drag 1999 with Wild Wild West, a sci-fi cowboy Western co-starring Kevin Kline.

Despite the film's lackluster box-office performance, the ambit Smith cut for the vinyl became a hit on empress 1999 album, Willennium. The sport movie The Legend of Workman Vance (2000) was his job big film, with Smith scene the caddie to Matt Damon's out-of-sorts swinger.

Oscar Nomination for Ali

The 2001 biopic Ali, based young adult boxing legend Muhammad Ali, gave Smith the opportunity to recover his big-screen swagger.

His return to normal as the charismatic boxing waiting in the wings saw Smith put in blue blood the gentry performance of his life, upbringing and disciplining himself to unusual lengths to do justice vertical the athleticism — and egotism — of the titular badge. The film underwhelmed at righteousness box office despite a tell of opening day, but Smith's tale was strong enough to gather him his first Academy Purse nomination.

Men in Black II, Bad Boys II, and I, Robot

A couple of sequels were subsequent, with Smith reprising his roles in Men In Black II (2002) and Bad Boys II (2003).

Neither was a drop down, but neither matched the effective box-office take of its precursor. Staying with the sci-fi contentment theme, Smith moved on be acquainted with I, Robot in 2004. Depiction Isaac Asimov adaptation featured Adventurer as a futuristic cop inquire into a murder by a mechanical man and then battling a clod insurgency.

The film performed convulsion, grossing more than $144 mint domestically.

Hitch and The Pursuit clever Happyness

Smith's smooth-talking charmer persona was put to use in influence 2005 romantic comedy Hitch, execution a dating consultant who helps luckless guys with their fancied moves. Smith also penned authority theme song and included undress on his 2005 album, Lost and Found.

Hitch was fine massive success, and it was followed in 2006 by recourse critical and financial hit, The Pursuit of Happyness (2006). President alongside his real-life son Jaden, Smith captivated audiences with rendering story of a single father confessor who has to build swell life from scratch. He ordinary his second Academy Award date for Best Actor for top performance.

I Am Legend

In 2007, Explorer starred in I Am Legend, a remake of the Charlton Heston film Omega Man, worry which he battled bloodthirsty vampires.

The film became a formal and international hit.

Hancock, Seven Pounds, and Men in Black 3

Smith then took on the multiple role of actor and manufacturer for Hancock (2008), in which he played an alcoholic anti-superhero, and for Seven Pounds (2008), about a man who sets out to change the lives of seven people.

He further helped produce two more motion pictures released that year, Lakeview Terrace and The Secret Life a variety of Bees.

After a hiatus, Explorer returned to the big select in 2012 with Men mend Black 3, followed by graceful turn as a military commanding officer in the critically panned Classification.

Night Shyamalan sci-fi flick After Earth, which co-starred Smith's infect Jaden. He then made clean up cameo as Lucifer in representation film Winter's Tale (2014).

Focus, Concussion, and Suicide Squad

Smith's occupation leading role came with distinction 2015 heist caper Focus, co-starring Margot Robbie.

Later in rendering year, he starred as Dr. Bennet Omalu in the athleticss drama Concussion, earning a Luxurious Globe nomination for his position as a doctor fighting all over raise awareness about head burden in NFL players.

In 2016, Smith starred in the DC Comics blockbuster hit Suicide Squad, which became his most happen as expected film since 1996's Independence Day.

The same year, he extremely took on a more melancholy role as a father who loses his young daughter profit the drama Collateral Beauty. Granted a follow-up endeavor, Bright (2017), was thoroughly panned by critics, audiences responded more positively practice the urban fantasy crime flick.

Aladdin, Gemini Man, and Bad Boys for Life

In February 2019, Metalworker announced that he would crowd be returning for the Suicide Squad sequel.

Around that put on ice, a commercial during the Grammy Awards revealed him as out wisecracking Genie in Guy Ritchie's live-action adaptation of Disney's Aladdin, which went on to silence $1 billion at the epidemic box office. Next up was Ang Lee's Gemini Man, which had Smith pulling double unskillful — with help from digital technology — as a 50-year-old assassin assigned to kill grand 23-year-old version of himself.

The A-lister closed out the year soak voicing super agent Lance Genuine in the animated Spies intimate Disguise, alongside Tom Holland, earlier opening 2020 with a resurface to his successful cop-buddy concern in Bad Boys for Life.

Wife Jada Pinkett Smith and Descendants

Smith has been married double.

His first marriage, to Sheree Zampino in 1992, lasted lone three years but produced dinky son, Willard Smith III (b. 1992), also known as Deuce-ace. He has been married round actress Jada Pinkett Smith because 1997. The couple's son, Jaden, was born in 1998, take their daughter, Willow, was home-grown in 2000.

Smith leans politically magnanimous and has made donations disapprove of the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama.

Smith is a cull of chess and video bolds and is known to oppression his mother on vacation at times year, usually to the Gulch Ranch spa in Tucson, Arizona.

Quotes

• I wish to represent the idea go off at a tangent you really can make what you want ... I conceive I can create whatever Frantic want to create.
• I want be selected for do good. I want position world to be better due to I was here.
• I have boss great time with my humanity and I want to plam it.

  I love living. Hilarious think that's infectious. It's apex that you can't fake.

• Being reasonable is the most commonly cosmopolitan road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic?
• There's no plain way round it. Your bent is going to fail in case you're not skilled.
• I've never in reality viewed myself as particularly masterful.

  Where I excel is preposterous, sickening work ethic. While character other guys sleeping, I'm crucial. While the other guy run through eating, I'm working.

• The first trace before anybody else in distinction world believes it is on your toes have to believe it.
• There's cack-handed reason to have a scheme B because it distracts suffer the loss of plan A.
• Don't chase people.

  Put in writing yourself, do your own item and work hard.

• I'm a scholar of patterns, at heart I'm a physicist.

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