Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and businesswoman. She began her career in 1990, when she made a guest appearance in the short-lived sitcom True Colors. She starred in A Different World, produced by Bill Cosby, and she featured opposite Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor (1996). She 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, including Scream 2, Ali, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. Pinkett Smith launched her music career in 2002, when she helped create the metal band Wicked Wisdom, for which she is a singer and songwriter. Smith also created a production company, in addition to authoring a book, published in 2004. In 1997, she married rapper and actor Will Smith. They have two children, Jaden and Willow, and Pinkett Smith is stepmother to Willard "Trey" Smith III, Will's son from a previous marriage. The couple founded the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation, a charity organization which focuses on inner-city youth and family support and has worked with non-profit organizations like YouthBuild and the Lupus Foundation of America.
Filmography (30)
The Matrix Resurrections
King Richard
Life in a Year
Charm City Kings
Angel Has Fallen
Girls Trip
Bad Moms
Magic Mike XXL
Annie
After Earth
Men in Black 3
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
The Karate Kid
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
The Women
The Secret Life of Bees
Reign Over Me
Madagascar
Collateral
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
Ali
Bamboozled
Return to Paradise
Scream 2
The Nutty Professor
Set It Off
If These Walls Could Talk
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
