Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Jones in Red Table Talk (2018)
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Jada Pinkett Smith and Keenen Ivory Wayans in A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)
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Jada Pinkett Smith and Jamie Foxx in Collateral (2004)
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Jada Pinkett Smith and Hannah Hodson in Hawthorne (2009)
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Jada Pinkett Smith and Joe Manganiello in Magic Mike XXL (2015)
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Jada Pinkett Smith and Makenzie Leigh in Gotham (2014)
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Jada Pinkett Smith in Hawthorne (2009)
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Jada Pinkett Smith and Omar Epps in Scream 2 (1997)
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Jada Pinkett Smith in The Human Contract (2008)
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Jada Pinkett Smith, Victor Pagan, and Mike Cannon in Gotham (2014)
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Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Regina Hall, and Tiffany Haddish in Girls Trip (2017)
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Laurence Fishburne and Jada Pinkett Smith in The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
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Jada Pinkett Smith in The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
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Jada Pinkett Smith and Marc Anthony in Hawthorne (2009)
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Jada Pinkett Smith, Jasmine Guy, Darryl M. Bell, Charnele Brown, Kadeem Hardison, Dawnn Lewis, Lou Myers, Cree Summer, Glynn Turman, and Cory Tyler in A Different World (1987)
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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith in Ali (2001)
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Don Cheadle and Jada Pinkett Smith in Reign Over Me (2007)
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Jada Pinkett Smith and Blair Underwood in Set It Off (1996)
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Jada Pinkett Smith, Gary Farmer, and Dick Miller in Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
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Jada Pinkett Smith, Christina Applegate, Mila Kunis, and Annie Mumolo in Bad Moms (2016)
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Jada Pinkett Smith, Jimmy Fallon, Rita Ora, and Dane DeHaan in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
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Jada Pinkett Smith in Scream 2 (1997)
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Jada Pinkett Smith in Magic Mike XXL (2015)
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Jada Pinkett Smith in Kingdom Come (2001)
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Candice Bergen, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Debra Messing in The Women (2008)
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Jada Pinkett Smith and Zach Braff in The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
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Vivica A. Fox, Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, and Kimberly Elise in Set It Off (1996)
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Jada Pinkett Smith and Jimmy Fallon in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
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Jada Pinkett Smith in The Nutty Professor (1996)
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Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Regina Hall, and Tiffany Haddish in Girls Trip (2017)
Jada Pinkett Smith, Jasmine Guy, Darryl M. Bell, Charnele Brown, Kadeem Hardison, Dawnn Lewis, Lou Myers, Cree Summer, Glynn Turman, and Cory Tyler in A Different World (1987)
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Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress, dancer, singer-songwriter, and businesswoman, who is best known for starring in the TV shows A Different World and Gotham and in such films as The Nutty Professor and Girls Trip.
Background
Ethnicity:
Pinkett Smith is of Jamaican descent on her mother's side and African American descent on her father's side.
Jada Koren Pinkett Smith was born on September 18, 1971, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, to Adrienne Banfield-Jones, the head nurse of an inner-city clinic in Baltimore, and Robsol Pinkett, Jr., who ran a construction company. She was named after Jada Rowland, who was her mother’s favourite soap opera actress. Her parents divorced when Jada was young and Banfield-Jones raised Pinkett with the help of her own mother, Marion Martin Banfield, a daughter of Jamaican immigrants, who was a social worker. Banfield noticed her granddaughter's passion for the performing arts and enrolled her in piano, tap dance, and ballet lessons. She has a younger brother, actor and writer Caleeb Pinkett.
Education
Jada studied dance and choreography at the Baltimore School for the Arts, graduating from it in 1989, as well as theatre at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
Pinkett began her acting career in 1990 when she starred in an episode of True Colors, an American comedy series that ran from 1990 to 1992. She appeared then in a television pilot for a supernatural drama titled Moe's World but it was never aired. She received guest roles in television shows such as Doogie Howser, M.D. (1991) and 21 Jump Street (1991). She earned a role on television sitcom A Different World in 1991, an American comedy-drama which was created by Bill Cosby.
She made her film debut in 1993 in the American thriller ‘Menace II Society’. Though the film was a commercial success, it gained a bad reputation for its violent scenes, profane language and drug-related content.
In 1994, Pinkett Smith acted with Keenen Ivory Wayans in the action and comedy film A Low Down Dirty Shame, where her acting garnered positive reviews. The same year, she also starred as a title character in Doug McHenry's romantic drama Jason's Lyric, opposite Allen Payne.
Throughout the next few years, she appeared in both lead roles and supporting roles in several films such as Demon Knight (1995), Set it Off (1996), Woo (1996), Scream 2 (1997), and Return to Paradise (1998). In 2000, she appeared in the movie Bamboozled, a film which was a satire of racial bias in the TV industry. The film, however, was a commercial flop.
A few years later, in 2003, she became known for her role in the American Australian movie The Matrix Reloaded and its sequel The Matrix Revolution. Both films turned out to be commercially successful.
Jada also played the voice role of Gloria the hippopotamus in Madagascar, a 2005 animated comedy film, which became a huge commercial hit worldwide. Two sequels were released, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, (2008) and Madagascar III: Europe’s Most Wanted, (2012) where Pinkett Smith continued to voice the animated character, Gloria.
In 2008, Pinkett Smith portrayed Alex Fisher, a lesbian author, in The Women. Pinkett Smith's directorial debut was The Human Contract; she also wrote and acted in the movie. In January 2009, she started working on the TNT medical drama Hawthorne, in which she was executive producer and a starring cast member. In September 2011, the show was cancelled by TNT, after three seasons.
In spring 2012, Pinkett Smith launched a web series entitled Red Table Talk, with the only episode featuring her daughter and her mother.
Beginning in 2014, she starred in the first season of the Fox's crime drama Gotham as Gotham City gangster Fish Mooney. Two years later, she continued to play her role as Mooney in many episodes of Gotham's second and third seasons.
Smith was latest seen in the movies Magic Mike XXL (2015), Bad Moms (2016) and Girls Trip (2017), which became a critical and financial success.
As of 2018, Pinkett Smith hosts the Facebook Watch talk show Red Table Talk which is based on her 2012 web series. The show features her mom and her daughter and focuses on a wide range of topics.
Besides, her acting career, Smith also works as a musician. Under the stage name Jada Koren, she formed the metal band Wicked Wisdom in 2002. The band is managed by James Lassiter and Miguel Melendez of Overbrook Entertainment, a company co-founded by Pinkett Smith's husband Will Smith.
Jada Smith is a businesswoman as well. After opening her music company 100% Womon Productions, Pinkett Smith created her own fashion label, Maja, in 1994. In 2003, she helped to create the television series All of Us, which aired on UPN/The CW.
In 2005, Pinkett Smith became one of many celebrities to invest a combined total of $10 million in Carol's Daughter, a line of beauty products created by Lisa Price. She also is a shareholder of the Philadelphia 76ers with her husband Will Smith and other partners.
As an author, Pinkett Smith published her first children's book, Girls Hold Up This World, in 2004.
After meeting Tom Cruise during the filming of Collateral in 2004, Pinkett Smith and Smith donated $20,000 to the Hollywood Education and Literacy Program (HELP), Scientology's basis for homeschooling. The couple came under fire in 2008 when they decided to fund the now-defunct New Village Leadership Academy, a private elementary school located in Calabasas, California. The school employed teachers dedicated to Scientology and featured controversial methodologies like Study Technology, created by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The couple have denied claims that they are themselves Scientologists, although in 2017 actress and former Scientologist Leah Remini has stated that Pinkett Smith is a member of the Church.
Politics
In 1997, Pinkett Smith was the emcee of the Million Woman March in Philadelphia.
In 2012, on behalf of PETA, Pinkett Smith wrote a letter to Baltimore's mayor, asking that the visiting Ringling Brothers Circus "comply with Baltimore’s absolute prohibition of the use of devices such as bullhooks" and not harm the elephants. In 2013, she appeared in a video clip for Gucci's "Chime for Change" campaign that aims to raise funds and awareness of women's issues globally.
Views
Pinkett Smith is also known for her philanthropy. Along with her husband, she created the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation, a charity which provides assistance to youths and families. They have provided grants to several non-profit organizations. She has also donated a million dollars to the Baltimore School of the Arts.
Quotations:
"I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked, and it's paralyzing."
"Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother."
"Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada."
"My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships."
"It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life."
"I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness."
"We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board."
Membership
Wicked Wisdom
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United States
2002
Personality
Jada suffers from fear of boats and sailing (Thalassophobia).
Physical Characteristics:
Jada's height is 5' (1.52 m) and her eye colour is brown. Revealed on her Facebook talk show, Red Table Talk, that Jade was diagnosed with alopecia.
Interests
Oil painting
Connections
Jada Pinkett Smith is married to the well-known actor and rapper Will Smith. The two met in 1994 and got married after a period of three years. Jada and Will have two children, Jaden and Willow. She is also the stepmother of Trey Smith, Will's son from a previous marriage. Currently, Jada resides with her family in Malibu, California.