Will Smith

Date of Birth 25 September 1968, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 

Birth Name Willard Christopher Smith Jr. 

Nicknames Fresh Prince 

Mr. July 

Height 6' 2" (1.88 m) 

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Willard Carroll "Will" Smith, Jr. (conceived September 25, 1968) is an American performer, humorist, maker, rapper, and lyricist. He has delighted in accomplishment in TV, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most effective on-screen character in Hollywood". Smith has been assigned for five Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards. 

In the late 1980s, Smith accomplished unassuming acclaim as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his prevalence expanded significantly when he featured in the prominent TV arrangement The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show kept running for six seasons (1990-96) on NBC and has been syndicated reliably on different systems from that point forward. After the arrangement finished, Smith moved from TV to film, and eventually featured in various blockbuster movies. He is the main performing artist to have eight continuous movies gross over $100 million in the household film industry, eleven successive movies gross over $150 million universally, and eight back to back movies in which he featured open at the main spot in the local film industry count. 

Smith is positioned as the most bankable star worldwide by Forbes. Starting 2014, 17 of the 21 movies in which he has had driving parts have aggregated overall gross profit of over $100 million every, five taking in over $500 million each in worldwide film industry receipts. Starting 2014, his movies have earned $6.6 billion at the worldwide film industry. He has gotten Best Actor Oscar selections for Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness. 

Smith was conceived in West Philadelphia, the child of Caroline (Bright), a Philadelphia school board chairman, and Willard Carroll Smith, Sr., a refrigeration engineer. He experienced childhood in West Philadelphia's Wynnefield neighborhood, and was raised Baptist. He has three kin, sister Pamela, who is four years more seasoned, and twins Harry and Ellen, who are three years more youthful. Smith went to Our Lady of Lourdes, a private Catholic primary school in Philadelphia. His folks isolated when he was 13, however did not really separate until around 2000. 

Smith went to Overbrook High School. In spite of the fact that broadly reported, it is untrue that Smith turned down a grant to go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); he never connected to school since he "needed to rap." Smith says he was admitted to a "pre-designing [summer] program" at MIT for secondary school understudies, yet he didn't go to. As indicated by Smith, "My mom, who worked for the School Board of Philadelphia, had a companion who was the confirmations officer at MIT. I had truly high SAT scores and they required dark children, so I most likely could have gotten in. Be that as it may, I had no aim of heading off to college." 

Smith began as the MC of the hip-jump twosome DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince, with his adolescence companion Jeffrey "DJ Jazzy Jeff" Townes as maker, and Ready Rock C (Clarence Holmes) as the human beat box. The trio was known for performing diverting, radio-accommodating melodies, most prominently "Guardians Just Don't Understand" and "Mid year". They increased basic praise and won the principal Grammy recompensed in the Rap classification (1988). 

Smith burned through cash openly around 1988 and 1989 and came up short on his pay charges. The Internal Revenue Service in the end surveyed a $2.8 million duty obligation against Smith, took a large number of his belonging, and decorated his wage. Smith was about bankrupt in 1990, when the NBC broadcasting company marked him to an agreement and manufactured a sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, around him. 

The show was fruitful and started his acting vocation. Smith set for himself the objective of turning into "the greatest motion picture star on the planet", examining film industry victories' regular qualities. 

Smith's first real parts were in the show Six Degrees of Separation (1993) and the activity film Bad Boys (1995) in which he featured inverse Martin Lawrence. 

In 1996, Smith featured as a major aspect of an outfit cast in Roland Emmerich's Independence Day. The film was a huge blockbuster, turning into the second most noteworthy netting film in history at the time and setting up Smith as a prime film industry draw. He later struck gold again in the late spring of 1997 close by Tommy Lee Jones in the late spring hit Men in Black playing Agent J. In 1998, Smith featured with Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State. 

He turned down the part of Neo in The Matrix for Wild West (1999). In spite of the failure of Wild West, Smith has said that he harbors no second thoughts about his choice, affirming that Keanu Reeves' execution as Neo was better than what Smith himself would have accomplished, despite the fact that in meetings consequent to the arrival of Wild West he expressed that he "committed an error on Wild West. That could have been something more." 

In 2005, Smith was gone into the Guinness Book of World Records for going to three debuts in a 24-hour time range. 

He has wanted to star in a component film revamp of the TV arrangement It Takes a Thief. 

On December 10, 2007, Smith was regarded at Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. Smith left an engraving of his hands and feet outside the widely acclaimed theater before numerous fans. Soon thereafter, Smith featured in the film I Am Legend, discharged December 14, 2007. In spite of insignificantly positive audits, its opening was the biggest ever for a film discharged in the United States amid December. Smith himself has said that he considers the film to be "forcefully one of a kind". An analyst said that the film's business achievement "solidified [Smith's] remaining as the main film industry attract Hollywood." On December 1, 2008, TV Guide reported that Smith was chosen as one of America's main ten most entrancing individuals of 2008 for a Barbara Walters ABC uncommon that broadcast on December 4, 2008. 

In 2008 Smith was accounted for to build up a film entitled The Last Pharaoh, in which he would star as Taharqa. It was in 2008 that Smith featured in the superhero motion picture Hancock. 

Men in Black III opened on May 25, 2012 with Smith again repeating his part as Agent J. This was his first major featuring part in four years. 

On August 19, 2011, it was reported that Smith had come back to the studio with maker La Mar Edwards to chip away at his fifth studio collection. Edwards has worked with craftsmen, for example, T.I., Chris Brown, and Game. Smith's latest studio collection, Lost and Found, was discharged in 2005. 

Smith and his child Jaden played father and child in two preparations: the 2006 personal dramatization The Pursuit of Happyness, and the sci-fi film After Earth, which was discharged on May 31, 2013. 

Smith featured inverse Margot Robbie in the sentiment dramatization Focus. He played Nicky Spurgeon, a veteran swindler who takes a youthful, appealing lady under his wing. Center was discharged on February 27, 2015. Smith was set to star in the Sci-Fic thriller Brilliance, an adjustment of Marcus Sakey's novel of the same name scripted by Jurassic Park author David Koepp. In any case, he cleared out the venture. 

Smith played Dr. Bennet Omalu of the Brain Injury Research Institute in the games dramatization Concussion, who turned into the principal individual to find endless traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a football player's mind. CTE is a degenerative ailment brought on by serious injury to the head that can be found simply after death. Smith's contribution is for the most part because of his very late exit from the Sci-Fi thriller-dramatization Brilliance. Blackout was coordinated by Peter Landesman and-dot taped in Pittsburgh, as indicated by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. It got $14.4 million in film charge credits from Pennsylvania. Central photography began on October 27, 2014. Performing artist Gugu Mbatha-Raw played his significant other. Omalu served as a specialist. 

As of November 2015, Smith is set to star in the free dramatization Collateral Beauty, which will be coordinated by David Frankel. Smith will play a New York publicizing official who succumbs to a profound dejection after an individual disaster. 

Nobel Peace Prize Concert December 11, 2009, in Oslo, Norway: Smith with spouse Jada and youngsters Jaden and Willow Smith wedded Sheree Zampino in 1992. They had one child, Trey Smith, conceived on November 11, 1992, and separated in 1995. Trey showed up in his dad's music video for the 1998 single "Only the Two of Us". He likewise acted in two scenes of the sitcom All of Us, and has showed up on The Oprah Winfrey Show and on the David Blaine: Real or Magic TV extraordinary. 

Smith wedded performing artist Jada Koren Pinkett in 1997. Together they have two youngsters: Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (conceived 1998), his co-star in The Pursuit of Happyness and After Earth, and Willow Camille Reign Smith (conceived 2000), who showed up as his little girl in I Am Legend. Smith and his sibling Harry own Treyball Development Inc., a Beverly Hills-based organization named after Trey. Smith and his family dwell in Los Angeles, California. 

Smith was reliably recorded in Fortune Magazine's "Wealthiest 40" rundown of the forty wealthiest Americans less than 40 years old.