Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress, screenwriter, producer, talk show host, businesswoman, and an occasional singer-songwriter. She has starred in more than 20 feature films, including Set It Off, Scream 2, Ali, The Matrix Reloaded, Collateral, Magic Mike XXL, Bad Moms, Girls Trip, and Angel Has Fallen. She also wrote a children’s book, Girls Hold Up This World, which was published in 2004. Jada has been married to Will Smith since 1997, with whom she has two children: son Jaden and daughter Willow.
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Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress, screenwriter, producer, talk show host, businesswoman, and an occasional singer-songwriter. Her breakthrough came opposite Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor. She has starred in more than 20 feature films, including Set It Off, Scream 2, Ali, The Matrix Reloaded, Collateral, Magic Mike XXL, Bad Moms, Girls Trip, and Angel Has Fallen. She also wrote a children’s book, Girls Hold Up This World, which was published in 2004. Jada has been married to Will Smith since 1997, with whom she has two children: son Jaden and daughter Willow. Through their marriage, she is also stepmother to Smith’s son from his first marriage, Trey Smith. Her parents are 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 her mother’s favorite soap-opera actress, Jada Rowland. She attended the Baltimore School for the Arts, where she met and became close friends with her classmate, rapper Tupac Shakur. She majored in dance and theatre and graduated in 1989. She received guest roles in television shows such as Doogie Howser, M. D. and 21 Jump Street, and earned a role on comedian Bill Cosby’s NBC television sitcom A Different World in 1991, as college freshman Lena James. In 1994, she also starred as a title character in Doug McHenry’s romantic drama Jason’s Lyric, opposite Allen Payne, and in 1995, played a convict on work release in the horror film Demon Knight.
In 2002, she helped create the heavy metal band Wicked Wisdom, for which she was a singer and songwriter. She is of Jamaican and Barbadian descent on her mother’s side and African-American descent on her father’s side. Her mother, Marion Martin Banfield, is a Jamaican-born social worker. She participated as the maid of honor in her own mother’s 1998 wedding to Paul Jones, a telecommunications executive. She described her mother as a doer who wanted to create a better community and add beauty to the world. She said, ‘A mother and daughter’s relationship is usually the most honest, and we are so close.’ She has shown great admiration for her grandmother, saying, ‘She understood what I wanted and never stood in my way’ Her father, RobsolPinkett Jr., was a construction worker. He became pregnant in high school; the couple married but divorced after several months. She had a role in the action and comedy film A Low Down Dirty Shame in 1994, and acted with Keenen Ivory Wayans in theaction and comedyfilm A Low down Dirty Shame. In 1996, she played Peaches in the remake of TheNutty Professor, portraying the love interest of a kind-hearted university professor who is morbidly obese.
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