Jada Pinkett Smith

actor; movie producer; publisher; television director; fashion designer; founder; singer

Personal Information

Born on September 18, 1971, in Baltimore, MD; daughter of Robsol Pinkett, Jr. (a contractor) and Adrienne Banfield (a nurse); married Will Smith (rapper and actor), December 31, 1997; children: Jaden Christopher Syre, Willow Camille Reign
Education: Attended Baltimore School for the Arts and North Carolina School for the Arts.
Memberships: Will and Jada Smith Foundation, co-founder, 1990s.

Career

Actress, 1991-; video director, 1991-; Maja, clothing designer and founder, 1994-; Overbrook Entertainment, co-founder and producer, 1990s-; Pretty Smart Books, founder and publisher, 2002-; singer, 2002-.

Life's Work

"Nothing's ever enough for me," Jada Pinkett Smith declared in GQ. "It's never enough. There's always somewhere new to go." Whether that "somewhere new" is an acting role or a venture like directing rap videos, producing television shows, running publishing companies, or singing, Pinkett Smith rarely shrinks from a challenge. By the age of 30, she had already won over film critics and fans with a series of diverse but equally scene-stealing performances in such films as Menace II Society, A Low Down Dirty Shame, Jason's Lyric, The Nutty Professor, Ali, and two Matrix movies, handling intimate drama, broad comedy, and action-horror heroism with aplomb. The Source praised her "ability to effortlessly inhabit the characters she portrayed." Even more impressive than her wide variety of acting roles is her life off of the silver screen. Pinkett Smith is married to world-renowned actor Will Smith, of Men in Black and Bad Boys fame, is a full-time mother to three children, and is a co-founder of the Will and Jada Smith Foundation, which hands out over $1 million per year to help out inner-city communities.

Pinkett Smith was born on September 18, 1971, in Baltimore, Maryland, to contractor Robsol Pinkett, Jr. and nurse Adrienne Banfield; her parents divorced around the time of her birth. Raised by her mother and grandmother, Marion Banfield, in the rough neighborhood known as Pimlico, she soon developed the confidence and openness to experimentation that would catapult her to fame. Her relationship with her mother was pivotal in this regard. "We were more like sisters in some ways than mother and daughter," Pinkett Smith averred in People. "We leaned on each other a lot."

Her grandmother, she recalled in People, "taught me that I can achieve whatever I want to achieve. Grandmama wanted her grandchildren to have every possible experience--ballet, tap dancing, piano lessons, gymnastics. She didn't want us to ever think we were deprived." Marion Banfield also told Pinkett Smith about sex; as she noted to GQ, Banfield "sat me down at the age of 9 and let me know that masturbation was a very natural thing. The body, nudity, was very special and beautiful."

Displayed Talent Early

By age 14 Pinkett Smith had demonstrated sufficient talent and drive to attend the Baltimore School for the Arts. During high school she experimented with wild hair colors, rode a motorcycle, and tried everything from dance to studying French. Yet it soon became clear that acting was her strongest suit, for, as she said to Entertainment Weekly: "There was nothing else I could do, except maybe go to law school and pass the bar, so the courtroom would be my stage."

Pinkett Smith graduated from Baltimore and went on to the North Carolina School of the Arts, but within a year had relocated to Los Angeles to pursue show business professionally. After meeting Keenen Ivory Wayans--creator and star of the hit television comedy series In Living Color--at a party, she pestered him for a job as choreographer on the show. She'd had no professional experience, she admitted, but she'd helped with some dance numbers in a high school play. "I used to beg, 'Keenen, put me on your show, put me on your show.'" she recalled to Entertainment Weekly. Wayans didn't give her the gig she wanted, but was impressed with her and provided her with some motivation. Wayans instead, Pickett Smith told Entertainment Weekly, "encouraged me to get off my lazy tail, get an agent, and do something."

From Sitcom To Big-Screen

In 1991 Pinkett Smith joined the cast of the hit TV situation comedy A Different World. In the role of Lena James, Entertainment Weekly observed, "sassiness became her signature." The character of James was perfect for Pinkett Smith for it had her playing a tough kid from the rough streets of Baltimore, a role that she was very familiar with from her own childhood. She told Interview magazine, "They said they needed someone with a little edge, so they based Lena on me." By the time the show left the air in 1993, Pinkett Smith had already committed to a dramatic role in the film Menace II Society by two struggling filmmakers, Allen and Albert Hughes. She attacked the role of an unwed mother in the low-budget film with gusto; which paid off when both she and the movie earned critical praise. It was crucial to Pinkett Smith, as she explained to GQ, to establish her dramatic credentials in Hollywood without coming off as a bombshell: "I didn't want to start in this business as a very sexual woman or a very attractive woman. I wanted to be noticed because of the talent."

Pinkett Smith took on a romantic role in The Inkwell, Matty Rich's nostalgic 1994 comedy-drama. Though the film fared poorly both at the box office and with critics--Entertainment Weekly deemed it "ungainly and amateurish"--it didn't prevent Pinkett Smith from earning more roles. She landed another romantic lead, the title role in Jason's Lyric. The film's love scenes were steamy enough to earn it an NC-17 rating, the equivalent of box-office poison; they were re-edited so that the movie received an R rating. Even the image of Pinkett Smith's naked thigh (wrapped around the body of her costar Allen Payne) in the promotion poster ruffled industry feathers and had to be airbrushed out. "People are so uptight about sex," she complained to GQ . "What are they tripping about? It's not even kinky sex." She added that she suspected "society has a problem with black intimacy."

Lyric director McHenry described Pinkett Smith to The Source magazine as "a really fabulous actress. She played Lyric as not just another stereotypical Black woman, but with sensitivity. She showed you that a woman can handle herself without drinking with the fellas, or cursing every other word." Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum, however, found the film's love affair "clichéd," little more than "a picture-perfect romance that inspires pretty, petite Pinkett to wear floaty dresses out of a perfume ad and quote the poetry of John Donne to handsome, muscled Payne." Yet, again, Pinkett Smith got noticed in the film community. Indeed, as The Source proclaimed, "1994 was the year Jada showed us what 'a nineties kinda girl' really looks like!"

Branched Out Into Different Roles

Pinkett Smith at last got her opportunity to work with Wayans. "He busted my ass," she declared to Entertainment Weekly . "I had to read twice, no three times, for him!" At last, however, she landed the role of Peaches in his action-comedy A Low Down Dirty Shame. "Peaches is raw," Pinkett Smith insisted of the character, sidekick to Shame, Wayans's private eye. "She's got real long nails and a major attitude. Givin' you straight ghetto. Ghetto vogue." Despite her diminutive stature, Pinkett Smith told People that she enjoyed "rolling down the stairs and having someone kick me around the set. The stunts were the best part of making the movie."

While the film suffered generally poor reviews, Pinkett Smith invariably shone. People cited raves from both coasts, with Stephen Holden of the New York Times declaring that she "walks away with the movie," and Los Angeles Times reviewer Kevin Thomas gushing that the actress "lights up the screen." Apart from Wayans's charm, wrote Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman, who gave the film a "C" grade, the film has "one other saving grace," namely Pinkett Smith, "a hyperkinetic comic sprite." Gleiberman added that "Pinkett parades her head-waggling bravado with a welcome dose of self-mockery." Entertainment Weekly ventured that after "all the buzz about her fierce performance in Shame, Pinkett won't stay a secret for long."

She again seized the limelight in Ernest Dickerson's Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight, an action-horror feature that spun off from a successful cable television series. She cut her hair short and dyed it platinum for the role, "a pure creative choice," as she told Essence. Battling the film's evil title character, she emerged as the first black female action hero on the big screen in nearly two decades. She told GQ that the genre suited her taste: "I'd love to work with [acclaimed action directors] Ridley Scott or John Woo. I'm sick and tired of seeing black women on the screen as victims." She does enjoy sharing an audience's appreciation of her on-screen strength, however. "I love sitting in the back [of the theater] with a big hat on so nobody can recognize me," she confessed to People, "and watching people having fun during one of my movies. They're going, 'Yeah, Jada--go girl!' Wow! It doesn't get any better than that."

Found Success Both on and Off Screen

In the early 1990s, shortly after she had left A Different World, Pinkett Smith tried out for a part on the up-and-coming television series The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. It was here that she first met actor Will Smith. While she did not get the part on the series as Smith's girlfriend (a role that went to super model Tyra Banks), she did gain a friendship with Smith that would grow as both of their careers progressed. They grew especially close in 1995 when Pinkett Smith broke up with long time boyfriend Grant Hill and Smith and his wife, Sheree Zampino, separated, counseling each other through the hard times. Yet the relationship was purely platonic at this point, for, as Pinkett Smith told Cosmopolitan, "At first, we weren't each other's cup of tea."

As Pinkett Smith and Smith spent more time together, they eventually realized that an attraction was growing, and at the urging of friends Duane and Tisha-Campbell Martin, they explored a romantic relationship. At the same time, Pinkett Smith was breaking into commercial Hollywood circles with movies such as The Nutty Professor, alongside comedian Eddie Murphy, Set It Off, an off the wall action drama that matched Pinkett Smith with Queen Latifah and Vivica A. Fox as a group of disgruntled bank robbers, and a small but well received roll in the teen horror flick Scream 2. She also secured a lead role in the romantic comedy Woo, where she played an outgoing, eccentric woman who was looking for love in all of the wrong places.

In 1997 Pinkett Smith and Smith announced their engagement and shortly after announced that Pinkett Smith was pregnant with their first child. The couple sped up their wedding plans and on New Years Eve of 1997, they were married in a private ceremony in Baltimore, Maryland, an event so top secret that guests were only given maps to the ceremony site hours before the actual wedding. Sixth months later, the Smiths welcomed their son, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, into the world. While this was Pinkett Smith's first child, she and Will Smith had already been taking care of Smith's son, Willard Smith III (Trey for short), from his marriage to Zampino.

Scaled Back Career

After the birth of Jaden, Pinkett Smith decided to scale back her acting career so that she could spend more time with her new baby as well as her new husband. As she told Entertainment Weekly, "I'd rather not star in anything right now because I need to be flexible for my family. Will is the breadwinner, so what I'm trying to do is keep myself in the game enough.... Maybe one day I'll star in something again, but I've gotten comfortable with the idea that I'm not going to have the career that I once thought I was."

This did not mean that Pinkett Smith was not active during the late 1990s. With her husband she set up the Will and Jada Smith Foundation, which gives, according to Essence, "$1 million per year in scholarships to grassroots organizations that help mothers, children, and families." The couple have also started Overbrook Entertainment, a production company set up to assist African-American actors to secure principal roles in Hollywood films both in front of and behind the camera. Pinkett Smith told People Weekly, "In order to keep the Nia Longs and Halle Berrys and the Vivica A. Foxes working, you really need to have more black women behind the scenes."

In 2000 Pinkett Smith returned to the screen in Spike Lee's farce, Bamboozled, a movie which showed the plight of many black actors and screenwriters in Hollywood. She followed this up with the comedy Kingdom Come, alongside Whoopi Goldberg, LL Cool J, and Vivica A. Fox. In early 2001 she starred in Ali, her first movie with husband Will Smith. Ironically she played Sonji, the first wife of boxer Muhammad Ali, who was played by Smith. A few months later, Pinkett Smith gave birth to the couple's second child, Willow Camille Reign.

Jumped Back Into Action

Many people wondered if Pinkett Smith would take more time off after the birth of her second child, but she was already in the middle of intensive training for three projects for the Wachowski Brothers, the films The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions, and the video game Enter The Matrix. In both the films and the video game, Pinkett Smith plays Niobe, a human soldier of the city of Zion who is trying to stop an invasion of machines from killing the human race. The role challenged Pinkett Smith not only mentally but physically. She told Essence, "I was trained to fly on the wire. My character, Niobe, has no weapons but she is nice with her feet. Therefore I had to do hours of kicks, as well as kick strengthening exercises."

Other avenues of expression have opened up to Pinkett Smith as well since her return to Hollywood. She and Smith became executive producers of a show based on their own life called All of Us, which deals with the non-traditional family. Many people wondered if a comedy was the right type of show to present such a touchy subject but, as Pinkett Smith told Interview, "I felt like in such a serious situation as trying to make a blended family work and be, I thought it would just work better in a sitcom format." While critics have yet to pass judgement on whether Pinkett Smith is correct or not, both she and Smith feel the show will be successful because, "It's really something that I'm sure all of us have experienced in some form or fashion."

Pinkett Smith has also recently founded a publishing company called Pretty Smart Books, which she is hoping will print a good deal of stories that would have not otherwise gotten the chance to hit bookstore shelves. She also sang on husband Will Smith's album, Born to Reign. Pinkett Smith plans to release a yet untitled solo album, which will allow her to explore the world of music. As she told Essence, "I love to write songs. It all comes from my heart. I'm not going pop, don't want to spend a lot of money on the project. I'll probably be independent. I believe I have something to say, and there's no pressure."

With all she has going for her, it seems that Pinkett Smith is an unstoppable force in the world of entertainment. "I'm pretty hard to stop," she admitted to People. "When I want something, I go get it." As she told Essence, "I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that." She is living proof of her own belief in self-definition; as she noted to GQ, "You can be sexy, you can be fragile, you can be vulnerable, and at the same time be very strong and have something to say."

Works

Selected works

Film

Menace II Society, 1993.
The Inkwell, 1994.
Jason's Lyric, 1994.
A Low Down Dirty Shame, 1994.
Demon Knight, 1995.
The Nutty Professor, 1996.
Set It Off, 1996.
Scream 2, 1997.
Woo, 1998.
Bamboozled, 2000.
Kingdom Come, 2001.
Ali, 2001.
The Matrix Reloaded, 2003.
The Matrix Revolutions, 2003.

Television

A Different World, NBC, 1991-93.
If These Walls Could Talk, HBO, 1996.
(Co-producer) All of Us, UPN, 2003.

Biography

Standing merely five feet tall, Jada Pinkett Smith is known for her high-energy charm, receiving attention for the spunky role she played in her friend Keenan Ivory Wayans' Low Down Dirty Shame in 1994. She was born on September 18, 1971, in Baltimore, MD, where she grew up and went on to study dance at Baltimore School for the Arts. She then attended North Carolina School of Arts, but dropped out when Wayans found her an agent to launch her acting career.

Real notice came when she worked on Bill Cosby's series A Different World starting in 1991. Thereafter she appeared in several films including her more serious roles as the single mother in Menace II Society and the girlfriend in Jason's Lyric (1994). Eddie Murphy's 1996 rendition of The Nutty Professor brought her back to comedy, and the extensive hype around the film allowed her fame to swell. In 1997, she married fellow actor (and former rap star) Will Smith; the following year, she appeared in Woo and Return to Paradise, and gave birth to son Jadan.

Pinkett Smith made a cameo in Spike Lee's Bamboozled in 2000, and then returned to a serious lead role in Doug McHenry's Kingdom Come (2001) with Whoopi Goldberg, which was shot while she was pregnant with daughter Willow. ~ Sarah Sloboda, All Movie Guide

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Jada Pinkett Smith
Pinkett Smith's photograph taken by Jerry Avenaim for Vogue in 2001
Born	Jada Koren Pinkett September 18, 1971 (1971-09-18) (age 38) Baltimore, Maryland
Occupation	Actress, singer-songwriter, producer, director, model, author, businesswoman
Spouse(s)	Will Smith (1997–present)
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Jada Koren Pinkett-Smith (born Jada Koren Pinkett; September 18, 1971)^[1] is an American actress, producer, director, model, author, singer-songwriter and businesswoman. She began her career in 1990, when she made a guest appearance in the short-lived sitcom True Colors. Her success began to build when she starred in A Different World, produced by Bill Cosby. She earned recognition for her role opposite Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor (1996), and starred in dramatic films such as Menace II Society (1993) and Set It Off (1996). She has appeared in more than 20 films in a variety of genres, and gained wider recognition for her roles in the films Ali, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions.

Pinkett-Smith launched her music career in 2002, when she helped create the metal rock band Wicked Wisdom, for which she is a singer and songwriter. She created a production company. She also created her own clothing line. She is the author of a children's book, published in 2004.

In 1997 she married actor Will Smith; they have two children, Jaden and Willow. Pinkett Smith is the stepmother to Smith's son from a previous marriage, Willard "Trey" Smith III.

Together, the couple have founded the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation, a charity organization which focuses on urban inner city youth and family support. The foundation has worked with non-profit organizations such as YouthBuild and the Lupus Foundation of America. Before her marriage to Will Smith, Pinkett was a close friend to the late West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur until his death.

1 Family and early life
2 Acting career
3 Musical career
- 3.1 The Onyx Hotel Tour
- 3.2 Ozzfest 2005
4 Marriage and children
5 Business ventures
6 Charity work and politics
7 Filmography
8 Television
9 Awards and nominations
10 See also
11 References
12 External links

Family and early life

Jada Pinkett-Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and named after her mother's favorite soap opera actress, Jada Rowland.^[2] Pinkett-Smith is of West Indian, Creole and Portuguese Jewish ancestry.^[3] Her parents are Adrienne Banfield-Jones (née Banfield), the head nurse of an inner-city clinic in Baltimore; and Robsol Pinkett, Jr., who runs a construction company. Banfield-Jones became pregnant in high school. The couple married but divorced after several months.^[4] Banfield-Jones raised Pinkett with the help of her mother, Marion Banfield, who was employed as a social worker.^[5] Banfield noticed her granddaughter's passion for the performing arts and enrolled her in piano, tap dance, and ballet lessons.^[6]

"[My mother] understood what I wanted and never stood in my way."

—Pinkett Smith^[7]

Pinkett-Smith is also the older sister of actor Caleeb Pinkett.

Pinkett-Smith remains close to her mother and said, "A mother and daughter's relationship is usually the most honest, and we are so close." She participated as the maid of honor in Banfield-Jones' 1998 wedding to telecommunications executive Paul Jones.^[8] Pinkett-Smith has shown great admiration for her grandmother, saying, "My grandmother was a doer who wanted to create a better community and add beauty to the world."^[9]

Pinkett-Smith majored in dance and theatre at the Baltimore School for the Arts, graduating in 1989.^[10]^[11] She continued her education at the North Carolina School of the Arts, but dropped out after a year. She moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue an acting career.^[5] She is an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.,^[12] the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African-American women.

Acting career

Early work (1990–1995)

In Los Angeles, Pinkett-Smith applied for the choreographer position for the television series In Living Color, created by actor Keenan Ivory Wayans. Although she failed to get the job, Wayans helped her find an acting agent and the two became close friends.^[4] She began her acting career in 1990, when she starred in a television pilot for supernatural drama Moe's World. Although the pilot was never aired, she received guest roles in television shows such as True Colors (1990), Doogie Howser, M.D. (1991), and 21 Jump Street (1991). After auditioning for comedian Bill Cosby's NBC television sitcom A Different World in 1991, she earned the role of college freshman Lena James, a character based on Pinkett-Smith's own style and personality.^[4] She played the role for two years until the show ended in 1993.

Pinkett-Smith made her feature film debut in 1993 in the critically-acclaimed drama film Menace II Society as Ronnie, a young single mother in Watts, California. She then appeared in several romance films, reuniting with her Menace II Society co-star Larenz Tate to star in The Inkwell (1994) as his love interest, Lauren Kelly. She also played the role of Lyric in the film Jason's Lyric (1994).

In 1994, Pinkett-Smith finally acted with Wayans in the action and comedy film A Low Down Dirty Shame. "He busted my ass," she told Entertainment Weekly. "I had to read twice, no three times, for him!"^[13] She described her character, Peaches, as "raw" with "major attitude",^[13] and her acting garnered positive reviews. The New York Times noted, "Ms. Pinkett, whose performance is as sassy and sizzling as a Salt-n-Pepa recording, walks away with the movie."^[14]

Breakthrough (1996–2000)

Following a role in Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995), Pinkett-Smith co-starred with actor and comedian Eddie Murphy in the 1996 remake of The Nutty Professor. It became her biggest box office success, bringing in more than $25 million in its first weekend and opening in over 2,000 theaters.^[15] She subsequently landed a role in the film If These Walls Could Talk (1996), as Patti. Co-directed by Cher, produced by Demi Moore, and co-starring Cher, Moore, and Sissy Spacek, the made for television movie earned nominations for the Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award, and brought exposure for Pinkett Smith.

Set It Off (1996), a crime drama about four women who rob banks to escape from poverty, helped to establish Pinkett-Smith as an actor of note. With Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, and Kimberly Elise, Pinkett-Smith portrayed Lida "Stony" Newsom, a young woman struggling to care for her younger brother after the death of their parents. Her acting in the film prompted the San Francisco Chronicle to name her as "the one to watch".^[16]

Pinkett-Smith took a variety of roles in the late 1990s, including a voice role in the Japanese anime Princess Mononoke (1997), a cameo in Scream 2 (1997), a supporting role in Return to Paradise (1998), and starring roles in the comedy film Woo (1998) and the short film Blossoms and Veils (1998), written and directed by Grey's Anatomy creater Shonda Rhimes.

In 2000, Pinkett-Smith was cast in Spike Lee's film Bamboozled (2000), as Sloan Hopkins, a personal assistant to the main character portrayed by Damon Wayans. Although the film met with mediocre reviews, it won the Freedom of Expression Award by the National Board of Review.^[17] She later starred in the 2001 comedy Kingdom Come with Whoopi Goldberg.

International success (2001–present)

Also in 2001, Pinkett Smith played the supporting role of Sonji Roi, the first wife of famous boxer Muhammad Ali, in the biographical film Ali. This marked the first film that she would participate in with her husband, actor Will Smith, who portrayed Ali. The film received mostly good reviews from critics and earned her a nomination from the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture.

Perhaps her best-known role to date is the part of human rebel Niobe in the films The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003), sequels to 1999's The Matrix. She had met the series' directors, The Wachowski Brothers, before they had begun to film The Matrix and they formed a close bond. The character was eventually written, specifically, with Pinkett Smith in mind.^[18] Directly after she filmed her scenes for Ali, Pinkett Smith flew to Australia to work on the Matrix sequels. The role brought her into the spotlight, as The Matrix already had a cult following of fans, and the sequels earned over $91 million and $48 million during opening weekends, respectively.^[19]^[20] Her acting in The Matrix Revolutions earned her another nomination for the Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture.

In 2004, Pinkett Smith reunited with director Michael Mann, whom she had worked with on Ali, to play United States Department of Justice prosecutor Annie Farrell, in the thriller Collateral, co-starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. She later provided the voice of Gloria the hippo in the DreamWorks animated film Madagascar (2005). Director Eric Darnell stated, "[Pinkett Smith]'s got all this incredible power and attitude and strength and confidence, which is just what we wanted for Gloria the hippo." She reprised her role for the sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, released in November 2008.

Pinkett Smith returned to drama when she co-starred with Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle in Reign Over Me (2007). The film revolves around a lost friendship between Charlie Fineman (Sandler) and Dr. Alan Johnson (Cheadle) which is rekindled after Fineman loses his family to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Pinkett Smith played Johnson's wife Janeane.

In 2008, Pinkett Smith portrayed Alex Fisher, a lesbian author, in The Women. The film co-starred Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, and Debra Messing, and was directed by Emmy Award-winner Diane English. Pinkett Smith's directorial debut was The Human Contract; she also wrote and acted in the movie. Starring Paz Vega and Idris Elba, it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008.^[21] As of January 2009, she has been working on the TNT medical drama Time Heals, in which she is executive producer and a starring cast member.^[22] The show has been greenlit for 10 episodes.^[23] The title of the show has since changed to Hawthorne and it premiered on June 16, 2009.

Musical career

"I listened to all kinds of metal as a kid. Metallica, Guns N' Roses. I would always look at Axl Rose and say, 'Why aren't there any chicks out there doing this now?' I always wanted an opportunity to get out there and rock out."

—Pinkett Smith on why she created Wicked Wisdom^[24]

Under the stage name Jada Koren, Pinkett Smith formed the metal rock band Wicked Wisdom in 2002.^[24] The band consists of Pinkett Smith performing lead vocals, Pocket Honore (guitar, vocals), Cameron "Wirm" Graves (guitar, keyboard, vocals), and Rio (bass, vocals). The band is managed by James Lassiter and Miguel Melendez of Overbrook Entertainment, a company co-founded by Pinkett Smith's husband Will Smith.^[25]

The band's debut album, Wicked Wisdom, was released on February 21, 2006, by Pinkett Smith's production company 100% Womon. Will Smith served as the project's executive producer.^[26] The album made it to Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart, and peaked at number 44 during the week of March 11, 2006.^[27] Allmusic reviewer Alex Henderson said of the album, "[Pinkett Smith] shows herself to be an expressive, commanding singer" and that "[Wicked Wisdom] shows considerable promise".^[28] The band promoted the album in 2006, touring with heavy metal band Sevendust.^[29]

The Onyx Hotel Tour

Wicked Wisdom landed a slot on Britney Spears' Onyx Hotel Tour in 2004, one of the year's highest-profile tours. The band opened for Spears for eight dates in April and May 2004, during the European leg of the tour.^[30]

In a video interlude after Showdown, Pinkett Smith appears as a silent woman leading Spears to a club. The only words spoken are: "Wanna join me?" She then leads Spears into the club where, on stage, Spears proceeds to sing ...Baby One More Time.

Ozzfest 2005

In 2005, Sharon Osbourne went to see Wicked Wisdom perform at a small night club in Los Angeles, California. She said, "I was blown away. When you see and hear Jada with her band it's apparent that she has nothing but love and respect for this genre of music."^[25] In May 2005 organizers announced Wicked Wisdom would perform on the second stage of 2005's Ozzfest.^[31] Fans of the festival were outraged, claiming the band did not have the credibility to perform at the music festival. A petition was created at PetitionOnline, garnering 501 signatures. Aware of the questions about the band's addition to Ozzfest, Pinkett Smith said, "I'm not here asking for any favors. You've got to show and prove. And not every audience is going to go for it."^[32] Wicked Wisdom's guitarist Pocket Honore said while early dates of the tour were rocky, "once word got out that we weren't a joke, people started coming out and by the sixth or seventh gig we were on fire."^[24] Pinkett Smith agreed, saying, "After seven dates within the Ozzfest tour, the whole attitude of it started to turn around once the word of mouth started getting out."^[29]

Marriage and children

Pinkett Smith married actor Will Smith in 1997, and appeared with him in the 2001 biopic Ali.

Pinkett Smith married actor Will Smith on December 31, 1997. They met in 1994 on the set of Smith's television show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, when she auditioned for the role of his character's girlfriend, Lisa Wilkes. She was considered too short (Pinkett Smith is 5'0" and Smith is 6'2"),^[33] and the role went to actress Nia Long. Pinkett Smith and Smith became friends, however, and began dating in 1995. About 100 guests attended their wedding at the Cloisters, near her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland.^[34] Regarding her marriage, Pinkett Smith said that they are "private people"^[35] and told one interviewer, "I will throw my career away before I let it break up our marriage. I made it clear to Will. I'd throw it away completely."^[36]

Pinkett Smith and Smith have two children, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith^[34] (born July 8, 1998 in Malibu, California)^[37] and Willow Camille Reign Smith^[34] (born October 31, 2000 in Los Angeles, California).^[5] Pinkett Smith is also the stepmother of Willard "Trey" Christopher Smith III (born November 11, 1992), Smith's son from a previous marriage. All three children have appeared onscreen alongside Smith: Trey starred in the music video for Smith's song "Just the Two of Us" from his album Big Willie Style (1997); Jaden co-starred in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006); and Willow made a cameo appearance in I Am Legend (2007).

Pinkett Smith commented in 2008 on their parenting skills: "We're not strict but we definitely believe it's a very important component for rearing children. It creates safety for them. They understand that they need guidance."^[38] Trey attends Oaks Christian High School in Westlake Village, California,^[39] while Jaden and Willow are homeschooled.^[9] The family resides in a 27,000 square foot (2,500 m²) home, on 100 acres (40 ha), in Malibu.^[7]

Business ventures

After opening her music company 100% Womon Productions,^[22] Pinkett Smith created her own fashion label, Maja, in 1994. The clothing line features women's T-shirts and dresses embellished with the slogan "Sister Power", sold primarily through small catalogs.^[6]

In 2003, Pinkett Smith and Smith helped to create the television series All of Us, which originally aired on UPN. The sitcom starred Duane Martin and LisaRaye and revolved around Martin's character juggling relationships with his ex-wife (LisaRaye), his 5-year-old son (Khamani Griffin), and his fiancée (Elise Neal). Pinkett Smith and Smith served as executive producers and guest-starred in several episodes; they said that the show is "very, very loosely" based on their life.^[40] The show was moved to The CW in 2006 after the merger of the UPN and WB networks, but was cancelled the following year.

Pinkett Smith published her first children's book, Girls Hold Up This World, in 2004. The cover of the book features Pinkett Smith and her daughter, Willow. Pinkett Smith told USA Today, "I wrote the book for Willow and for her friends and for all the little girls in the world who need affirmation about being female in this pretty much masculine world. I really tried to capture different sides of femininity. I want girls in the world to feel powerful, to know they have the power to change the world in any way they wish."^[41]

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.^[42] She became a spokesperson for the beauty line, and said, "To be a part of another African American woman's dream was just priceless to me."^[43] Both Pinkett Smith and Smith had been regular customers of Carol's Daughter before an investment plan had been made.^[44]

In 2007, Pinkett Smith appeared alongside numerous celebrities in various infomercials sponsoring a line of home spa products that have since become defunct.

Charity work and politics

Together with Smith, Pinkett Smith has created the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland, a charity which focuses on youth in urban inner cities and family support. Their family helps to run the charity; her aunt, Karen Banfield Evans, is the foundation's executive director.^[45] The charity was awarded the David Angell Humanitarian Award by The American Screenwriters Association (ASA) in 2006. John E. Johnson, executive director of the ASA, said, "Will and Jada exemplify the principles of the David Angell Humanitarian Award through their support of projects focusing on urban and inner city youth, family wellbeing, violence prevention and education. Their philosophy of leading a positive lifestyle and sincere interest in helping people everywhere is inspirational."^[46] The Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation has provided grants to non-profit organizations such as YouthBuild,^[47] and Pinkett Smith has made significant personal donations to organizations such as Capital K-9s.^[48]

While attending the Baltimore School for the Arts, Pinkett Smith met and became friends with classmate Tupac Shakur. They maintained a close friendship until the night of his death in September 1996. In December 2006, she donated $1 million to the Baltimore School for the Arts in his memory. Donald Hicken, head of the school's theater department and Pinkett Smith's former teacher, said, "It means a lot when you're a teacher and your most famous alumnus comes back to give a donation. It really says a lot to the community that the school matters in people's lives."^[45]

When Pinkett Smith's aunt, Karen Banfield Evans, was diagnosed with lupus,^[49] the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation, in association with the Lupus Foundation of America and Maybelline, held the first annual "Butterflies Over Hollywood" event on September 29, 2007 at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. With a list of over 300 celebrities and guests, Pinkett Smith helped raise funds for LFA public and professional educational programs.^[50] The Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation was presented with an award in 2007 at the 4th Annual Lupus Foundation of America Awards.^[51]

After meeting famed Scientologist 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.^[52] The couple came under fire in 2008 when they decided to fund New Village Leadership Academy, a private elementary school located in Calabasas, California. The school employs teachers dedicated to the Scientology religion and features methodologies like study technology, created by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The couple, who are close friends with Cruise and wife Katie Holmes,^[53] have denied claims that they are themselves Scientologists. Jaqueline Olivier, an administrator of New Village Leadership Academy, insists that the school has no religious affiliation.^[54]^[55]

A supporter of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, Pinkett Smith said in an interview, "I love Michelle [and] would play her any day," when she was asked if she would play Michelle Obama in a biopic. She added, "I'm voting for Michelle. I'm always telling people I'm voting for Michelle to get into the White House and Obama is just going to follow her lead. She is smart and committed, and I just love her."^[56] Pinkett Smith joined her co-star from The Women, Meg Ryan, in speaking about Alaskan governor and Republican Party vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, and said, "It's nice to see that women in America are being extremely vocal about politics this year. But her being a woman hasn't made me sway to that side. Not one bit."^[57]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1993	Menace II Society	Ronnie
1994	The Inkwell	Lauren Kelly
	Jason's Lyric	Lyric
	A Low Down Dirty Shame	Peaches
1995	Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight	Jeryline
1996	The Nutty Professor	Carla Purty
	If These Walls Could Talk	Patti	Made for television movie
	Set It Off	Lida "Stony" Newsom
1997	Princess Mononoke	Toke	Voice
1997	Scream 2	Maureen Evans	Cameo
1998	Woo	Woo
	Blossoms and Veils	Mary	Short film
	Return to Paradise	M.J. Major
2000	Bamboozled	Sloan Hopkins
2001	Kingdom Come	Charisse Slocumb
2001	Ali	Sonji
2003	The Matrix Reloaded	Niobe
2003	The Matrix Revolutions	Niobe
2004	Collateral	Annie
2005	Madagascar	Gloria	Voice
2007	Reign Over Me	Janeane Johnson
2008	The Women	Alex Fisher
	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa	Gloria	Voice
	The Human Contract	Rita	Debuted at Cannes Film Festival in May 2008.^[21] Written and directed by Pinkett Smith.

Television

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1991-1993	A Different World	Lena James
2009-present	Hawthorne	Christina Hawthorne

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Film/TV Show	Result
1997	Image Award	Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture	Set It Off	Nominated
1997	Image Award	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Television Movie or Mini-Series	If These Walls Could Talk	Nominated
1998	Blockbuster Entertainment Award	Favorite Supporting Actress – Horror	Scream 2	Nominated
2001	Black Reel Award	Theatrical – Best Actress	Bamboozled	Nominated
2001	Image Award	Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture	Bamboozled	Nominated
2002	Image Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture	Ali	Nominated
2003	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actress – Drama/Action Adventure	The Matrix Reloaded	Nominated
2004	Image Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture	The Matrix Revolutions	Nominated
2005	BET Comedy Award	Best Performance in an Animated Theatrical Film	Madagascar	Nominated
	Black Reel Award	Best Supporting Actress	Collateral	Nominated
	Image Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture	Collateral	Nominated
(Source: IMDb.com)

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NAME	Pinkett Smith, Jada Koren
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pinkett, Jada Koren (birth name); Koren, Jada (stage name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor, singer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 18, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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