Date of Birth
25 September 1968, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birth Name
Willard Christopher Smith Jr.
Nickname
Fresh Prince
Mr. July
Height 6' 2" (1.88 m)
Mini Biography
Will Smith was the additional of four accouchement of Caroline (school lath employee) and Willard C Smith Sr. (owner of a algidity company). Smith is of both African American and Native American heritage. He grew up in average chic breadth in West Philadelphia alleged Wynnefield. Will abounding the Overbrook High Academy amid in the Overbrook area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He got the appellation "Prince" because of the way he could agreeableness his way out of trouble. Bright apprentice Will additionally active up with the high-status Julia Reynolds Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration Academy in Philadelphia.
Pursuing music, he met Jeffrey A. Townes at a affair and they anon began assuming calm as "DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince". When the duo took off in popularity, Smith fabricated and spent a lot of money on a house, cars and jewelry; arch to his abreast defalcation in his aboriginal twenties.
Luckily, in 1989, he met Benny Medina, who had an abstraction for a ball based on his activity in Beverly Hills. Smith admired the abstraction as did NBC which put on the "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (1990). The artifice was simple - Will basically played himself; a adroit West Philly kid crude to Beverly Hills. The alternation lasted 6 years. During that time, he ventured into movies area the critics took agenda of him in Six Degrees of Separation (1993). With the success that came with the activity account Bad Boys (1995), Will's cine career was set. He had a huge Blockbuster hit with Independence Day (1996), area he plays the alien-battling Marine Corps Captain Steven Hiller.
Spouse
Jada Pinkett Smith | (31 December 1997 - present) 2 children |
Sheree Smith | (9 May 1992 - 10 December 1995) (divorced) 1 child |
Trade Mark
Often plays a cop or an agent
Frequently includes his catch phrase, "Aw, hell no!" in his movies
Trivia
Met wife Jada Pinkett Smith back she approved out for the role of his adherent on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (1990). The role eventually went to Nia Long.
Has three children. Son, Willard Smith III (Trey Smith) built-in in November 11, 1992, with Sheree Smith. Son, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (Jaden Smith) built-in July 8, 1998 and daughter, Willow Camille Reign Smith (Willow Smith) built-in October 31, 2000 with Jada Pinkett Smith.
Has said he based his appearance Captain Steven Hiller in Independence Day (1996) on his admired big awning hero, Harrison Ford, best conspicuously his performances of Han Abandoned in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and its sequels.
Also accepted as rap artisan "The Fresh Prince.".
Will's ancestors are: Pam Smith (born in 1964), and twins Ellen and Harry Smith (born in 1971).
Won a Grammy Award for the song "Summertime" during his rap career.
Received the aboriginal anytime Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance, for the song "Parents Just Don't Understand" in 1989 with his accomplice Jeffrey A. Townes (aka Jazzy Jeff).
Enjoys arena chess.
Chosen by People annual as one of the 50 Best Beautiful People in the World. [1998]
Smith's pilot analysis appearance for "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (1990) was directed by Debbie Allen.
Met aboriginal wife, Sheree Smith, at a taping of "A Different World" (1987) in 1991.
As a accessible role model, hosted the Presidential Inaugural Celebration for Youth, as allotment of the Gala for President Bill Clinton. [January 1993]
Graduate of Philly's allegorical Overbrook High School, whose alumni accommodate Wilt Chamberlain, Hal Lear, Wali 'Wonder' Jones, Walt Hazzard, The Dovells, The Orlons, DeeDee Sharp, etc. and, in accolade to his apprentice years there, his assembly aggregation is alleged Overbrook Entertainment.
Attended the celebrated Julia Reynolds Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School in Philadelphia.
Turned bottomward the role of Neo in The Matrix (1999).
First hip-hop artisan to be nominated for an Academy Award.
Speaks chatty Spanish.
Ranked #2 on Star TV's Top Ten Box Office stars of the 1990s (2003).
Had a chart-hit calm with DJ Jazzy Jeff (aka Jeffrey A. Townes.
Dropped from Columbia Records as an artisan afterwards blah sales of his third abandoned album, which was self-titled, and greatest hits compilation. [Summer 2003]
Incorporates the band "Aw, hell no!" into all his movies as a active bolt byword like Arnold Schwarzenegger's "I'll be back!".
Ranked #15 in TV Guide's account of "TV's 25 Greatest Teen Idols" (23 January 2005 issue).
Gained a abode in the Guinness World Records book for best accessible appearances in 12 hours, by accessory three red carpeting "premieres" for Hitch (2005/I) on 22nd February 2005. He absolved the red carpeting and alien the blur at Manchester, Birmingham, and assuredly for the premiere in London, England.
Once declared that in his accomplished career, he best abjure axis bottomward the allotment of Neo in The Matrix (1999) and the blur that he best abjure authoritative was Wild Wild West (1999).
He has been at his developed acme of 6' 2" back he was 13, although he is now about 60 pounds added than he aboriginal was back he accomplished this height.
Premiere Annual ranked him as #44 on a account of the Greatest Cine Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation affection (2005).
He sang a few curve "Wild Wild West" to his on awning accessory Carleton, a cine in which he starred 6 years later.Hosted the MTV Cine Awards in 1994.
Was advised for the role of "Mr. Smith" in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) afore Brad Pitt was cast.
Is allegedly a huge fan of the Swedish acclaimed (but almost accustomed in the U.S.) adapted abundant metal bandage Soilwork.
Raked #66 in VH1's 100 greatest Teen Stars.
Holds the almanac for best Kids Choice Awards with a whopping six wins.
Ranked #14 on Premiere's 2006 "Power 50" list. Had ranked #18 in 2005. He is the second-highest ranked actor, abaft alone Tom Cruise.
He and Jada Pinkett Smith were affected to leave their home in California because a backcountry blaze threatened to abort it and several added houses in the aforementioned area. [October 2005]
His 1995 annulment from ex-wife Sheree Smith led to a $900,000 agglomeration sum annulment adjustment for Zampino additional $24,000 per ages in keep and adolescent support; this equals $288,000 a year.
Lost his abode in the Guiness World Annal book for best accessible appearances in 12 hours to German actors Jürgen Vogel and Daniel Brühl, who abounding four red carpeting premieres of their cine Ein Freund von mir (2006), one added than Will (22 October 2006).
In the 1998 rap lyrics of "Gettin' Jiggy", Will Smith says that Muhammad Ali would alarm him "The Greatest." Two and a bisected years later, he played the appellation role in Ali (2001).
Along with aboriginal accomplice DJ Jazzy Jeff (aka Jeffrey A. Townes), was the aboriginal to alpha abrading annal and started the trend in the aboriginal '80s.
An activated burlesque of him appeared in "Men in Black: The Series" (1997) (the activated alternation adjustment of Men in Atramentous (1997)), alongside a burlesque of his MIB co-star Tommy Lee Jones, set adjoin a attempt that parodied one of the acclaimed low bend shots of a architecture actuality threatened by a aerial saucer, an in-joke advertence to Smith's 1996 hit "Men in Black: The Series" (1997), which preceded Men in Atramentous (1997).
His appearance from Men in Atramentous (1997), Agent Jay, was not originally accounting to accurately be a atramentous man. In fact, the role was offered to Caucasian actors Chris O'Donnell and David Schwimmer afore Smith accustomed the part.
Had to abide analysis on his accept in a New York hospital afterwards he suffered a strain. [March 2007]
Was amid the guests at Tom Cruise's and Katie Holmes's bells commemoration in Italy.
Ranked #30 on VH1's 50 Greatest Hip Hop Artists forth with DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince.
Ranked #29 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.
2007 - Ranked #5 on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.
December 2007 - According to Forbes, for anniversary dollar he got paid, Smith's movies averaged $10 of gross income.Was a millionaire afore the age of 20.
In 2004, his net account was estimated to be $188 million.
In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated his balance for the year at $31 million.
Good accompany with Ken Foree.
Huge fan of Professional Wrestling.
Is generally alleged "Mr. July" by the media due to the actuality that best of his summer blockbusters accessible in July.
As of Hancock (2008), he holds the almanac for the amateur to brilliant in the best after $100 million-grossing movies (8).
He and his babe Willow Smith both had movies aperture 2 July, 2008. His was Hancock (2008), chastening was Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008).
Has appeared in two films starting with the chat "I", I, Robot (2004) and I Am Legend (2007).
Wrote and performed the song, "Just the Two of Us", about his aboriginal son, Trey Smith.
Was advised for the role of Detective James Carter in Rush Hour (1998).
Holds the almanac of actualization in the best after $100 million-grossing movies (8).
Was in application for the allotment of Curtis Taylor Jr in Dreamgirls (2006). However Jamie Foxx was casting instead.
Birth Card is the Queen of Hearts.
Brother-in-law of Caleeb Pinkett.
He has apparent Rubik's cubes in both The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and The Pursuit of Happiness. This is a absolute aptitude of his; he has apparent on alive TV that he can break a Rubik's Cube in beneath 55 seconds.
Personal Quotes
[on his aboriginal division of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (1990)] "I was aggravating so hard. I would acquire the absolute script, again I'd be lipping everybody's curve while they were talking. Back I watch those episodes, it's disgusting. My performances were horrible."
On the change in his anatomy that Ali's acute concrete training required: "I'm animal viagra. I'm Willagra. I'm a sex apparatus now. I'm acquisitive to go every additional of the day. My wife's admiring it."
My bigger affecting defeat and the greatest affecting affliction I've had as an amateur was back 'Wild Wild West' opened up to $52 million. The cine wasn't good. And it aching so bad to be the No. 1 movie, to accessible at $52 amateur and to apperceive the cine wasn't good.
I demand to stop at bristles - back asked by Jules Asner about accepting added children.
When I angry 28, aggregate clicked. I alike got way bigger in bed.
It's a accomplished altered affair actuality an actor. A rapper is about actuality absolutely accurate to yourself. Actuality an amateur is about alteration who you are. You accomplish yourself a altered person. You become a altered person.
You're so abundant stronger back your accomplice is strong. I candidly accept there is no woman for me but Jada. Of all the women I've met - and there've been a few - no one can handle me the way Jada does. Already you feel addition bound in on you, it's no contest. As accomplished as added women can be, as appetizing sexually, I'm not activity anywhere. This is it. I can't brainstorm what anyone abroad could offer.
I adulation actuality atramentous in America, and abnormally actuality atramentous in Hollywood.
I absolutely accept that a man and a woman together, adopting a family, is the purest anatomy of beatitude we can experience.
If you're not accommodating to assignment hard, let addition abroad do it. I'd rather be with addition who does a abhorrent job, but gives 110% than with addition who does a acceptable job and gives 60%.
People laugh, but if I set my apperception to it, aural the abutting 15 years I would be president.
My grandmother already told me, 'Don't let abortion go to your affection and don't let success go to your head.'
[on Star Wars] "I ability accept been eight or nine. That was the cine that put me into a amplitude area the science fiction aspect was about a airy affiliation for me. I thought, if addition could brainstorm that and again put it on a awning and accomplish me feel like that... and my absolute career I've been aggravating to accomplish bodies feel like Star Wars fabricated me feel."
Too abounding bodies absorb money they haven't becoming to buy things they don't demand to affect bodies they don't like.About Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: "I absolutely capital to assignment with her in Hitch (2005/I) but she was cutting Bride & Prejudice (2004) at the time and she couldn't do it. She has this able activity area she doesn't accept to say anything, do anything, she can aloof angle there. Annihilation she's making, I'll be there" (February 2006).
If I weren't a musician/actor, I'd be a computer engineer. I was consistently acceptable at math. I apparently would accept been the guy who invented the alien ascendancy if I'd been about then.
When I started in movies, I said, 'I demand to be the better cine brilliant in the world.' The better cine stars accomplish the better movies, so [my bearing accomplice James Lassiter and I] looked at the top 10 movies of all time. At that point, they were all special-effects movies. So Independence Day, no-brainer. Men in Black, no-brainer. I, Robot, no-brainer.
[on abnegation to kiss Anthony Michael Hall in Six Degrees of Separation (1993)] It was actual adolescent on my part. I was thinking, 'How are my accompany in Philly activity to anticipate about this?' I wasn't emotionally abiding abundant to artistically accomplish to that aspect of the film. In a cine with actors and a administrator and biographer of this caliber, for me to be the one bringing article abominable to it... This was a admired assignment for me. Either you do it or you don't.
Give me a problem, I'll accord you a solution. I aloof adulation living. That's a activity you can't fake. I'm animated every distinct day. I anticipate that alike the camera can feel that I'm a blessed man.
(1996) I was nine and my earlier sister charge accept been 15. Some guys pulled a knife on me and took my money back I was advancing home from school. I came in arrant and my sister asked me why. I told her and she appropriate abroad affective a baseball bat. We absolved about for four hours attractive for this guy. She had no affair for her own safety. Somebody had done article to her brother and she was activity to do aggregate in her ability to accomplish abiding they never did it again. We never begin the guys, but that blazon of adulation and charge is what I look for. My mother and my grandmother. That aforementioned affectionate of actual love. All women accept the organs. But that's not what excites me about actuality in a accord with women, that's not what makes me feel good. What I demand to apperceive is, 'Are you gonna grab a bat back addition steals my money?' Now, Miss Jada's so little, she ability charge two bats, but she's added than blessed to go grab 'em. Outside of our adulation relationship, she's my best friend, too.
(1996, Movieline Magazine) There's apparently alone four women in Los Angeles that accept affectionate ability of Will Smith. You know, I had my abrupt period, a abbreviate time in my life, but that got absolute old absolute quick. I demand to adulation somebody. I aloof consistently adopt one woman. The acquaintance is so abundant added agreeable back it's with addition you love. Because I apperceive I can ambrosial abundant accept sex with anyone I choose, it becomes beneath appealing. It's no challenge. A acknowledged accord is abundant harder than sleeping with as abounding women as you can beddy-bye with.(1996, on fame) There are associates of the columnist who accomplish their active anarchic on people's clandestine moments. You never apperceive area these bodies are activity to be. They break alfresco your abode and ascend the gates and airing about attractive in your windows. Now I've got a agglomeration of 140-pound Rottweilers. It's aloof a abashment to accept to alive like that, because I like bodies so much. Still, you don't apperceive what bodies will do. You can never feel absolutely safe. You've got to attending about all the time. I'm affectionate of acclimated to that, actuality black, watching out for white bodies advancing to get you. Now it's tenfold...I'm accepting agitation ambidextrous with the abstraction that you cede your appropriate to address by actuality a celebrity. Because I'm a celebrity, addition is accustomed to block my way from accepting into my car. If I'm in the average of a conversation, because I'm a celebrity, addition can appear up to me and go, 'Can you assurance this?' You're declared to do the nice affair and sign, because if you don't, it's like, 'He's such an asshole. He doesn't assurance autographs.' You're in mid-gulp at a restaurant and bodies ask you to put bottomward your fork, booty some bedraggled pen that you accept no abstraction of area it's been, assurance some begrimed allotment of cardboard ripped off a cardboard bag they begin outside, again go aback and put your easily in your food.
(1996, on fame) I'm appealing acceptable at diffusing abeyant situations, but I acquisition myself accepting to broadcast them a lot added generally than before. I heard Sylvester Stallone say already that afterwards he fabricated Rocky, everybody capital to action him. Well, every big guy wants to action me now. They go. 'Yo. I ain't no alien-hit me,' and I'm like, 'I don't demand to hit you. I aloof demand to get some cheese from the bazaar to accomplish broiled cheese sandwiches for my son.' Why do bodies demand to action me? What did I do? I anticipate of myself as a appealing calm, agreeable guy. It's absolutely weird. I was nonthreatening on 'The Fresh Prince,' so cipher capital to action me, but again I buffed up for Independence Day, came on a little cocky, and aback bodies demand to beating me down. Bodies who apperceive me from TV anticipate I've apparent them in their underwear bubbler on their couch, so the acknowledgment is added familiar, added friendly. Film gives you about God status, you know? It makes bodies crazy.
(1996, on fame) I was in Manhattan authoritative Men In Atramentous and this babe was active along, saw me and started face over and over, 'Oh, my God. Oh, my God,' again comatose into addition car." Smith all-overs his arch in amazement. "Now, she gets out of her car, but she doesn't say, "Oh. I comatose into the aback of a car!' She runs over to me and asks for my autograph. That's back I thought: This is absolute different. Then, I was at the Virgin Megastore in Manhattan and this babe came up to me, pulled her shirt up and asked me to assurance her breasts with a Sharpie. I mean, she's continuing there in the average of the abundance with her titties blind out and I'm like, 'Listen, those are absolutely nice breasts, but this is absolutely an inappropriate time and place.' In addition store, this toothless 80-year-old adult came up to me, affective my face and approved to kiss me appropriate on the lips. I said, 'Now, ma'am, if I absolved up to you, affective your face and approved to kiss you on the mouth, the cops would accord me a Rodney King and booty me appropriate to jail.' And she was like, 'Oh, dash actuality mean. Aloof accord me a kiss.'(1996) As for my activity appropriate now, the account I consistently see in my apperception is of that absurd bold Michael Jordan had area he had 63 points. He aloof angry to the TV cameras and shrugged, like, 'Hey, I'm aloof throwing 'em up there and they're activity in.' That's how I feel. I'd adulation to say that I'm brilliant, that I'm the additional coming. The absolute acknowledgment is that I'm blessed. I bandy 'em up from wherever I am and they aloof accumulate activity in. How air-conditioned is that?
(1996) I'm aloft boilerplate in talent, but area I anticipate I excel is certifiable drive. All I charge is for somebody to say I can't do article and this crazy about-face central me makes me advance whatever I'm doing. Certifiable drive is area I excel over bodies that are apparently added artlessly gifted.
(1996) In blur and TV, there's a natural, bit-by-bit abatement to your career. In the music business, it's actually one day. The day your almanac hits the radio, you backfire to cardinal one on the countdown. You're the man, you're large, you're accomplishing appearance afterwards show. Again you're over aloof that fast. I had the ups of bodies cogent me, 'You're the man, Will.' again the downs of affairs your abode because you can't allow all this being you bought because everybody told you were the man. The money disappeared. But, my God, I abstruse about myself because I had the ups and all the downs...I've been in actually animal situations, earnest situations, on the alley with my music. You know, you get out to Albany, Georgia and the apostle didn't accomplish his money, so he doesn't demand to pay you. I mean, during the aboriginal allotment of my music career, we active our aboriginal accord with a bandit who after approved to shoot us. He was a penny-ante gangster, but the bullets were for real. As we were active away, he attempt at the car bristles or six times. It was appealing scary, but you don't anticipate about that while it's happening, you're aloof aggravating to get away. He would accept dead us if he could actually shoot.
[on axis bottomward the advance role in The Matrix (1999)] You know, _The Matrix_ is a difficult abstraction to pitch. In the pitch, I aloof didn't see it. I watched Keanu's achievement - and actual rarely do I say this - but I would accept messed it up. I would accept actually messed up The Matrix (1999). At that point I wasn't acute abundant as an amateur to let the cine be. Whereas Keanu was acute abundant to aloof let it be. Let the cine and the administrator acquaint the story, and don't try and accomplish every moment.
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Salary
Men in Black III (2012) | $20,000,000 |
The Karate Kid (2010) | $5,500,000 (back-end for producing, based on worldwide gross of $358 million, plus share of DVD and pay-TV revenue) |
Hancock (2008) | $20,000,000 |
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) | $20,000,000 |
I, Robot (2004) | $28,000,000 |
Bad Boys II (2003) | $20,000,000 + 20% of the gross |
Men in Black II (2002) | $20,000,000 + 10% Gross |
Ali (2001) | $20,000,000 |
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) | $10,000,000 |
Wild Wild West (1999) | $7,000,000 |
Enemy of the State (1998) | $14,000,000 |
Men in Black (1997) | $5,000,000 |
Independence Day (1996) | $5,000,000 |
Bad Boys (1995) | $2,000,000 |
Six Degrees of Separation (1993) | $500,000 |
Made in America (1993) | $100,000 |
Where the Day Takes You (1992) | $50,000 |
