Jada Pinkett Smith

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1971-09-18 (53 years old)

Place of Birth Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Also Known As Jada Pinkett, Jada Smith, 제이다 핀켓 스미스, 贾达·萍克特·史密斯, ג’יידה פינקט סמית’

Jada Pinkett Smith

Biography

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.

Known For

Actor

Girls Trip 2

as Lisa Cooper

Redd Zone

as Tia Magee

2023
Queen Cleopatra

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2023
African Queens: Njinga

as Narrator (voice)

2021
The Equalizer

as Jessie Cook

2020
Showbiz Kids

as Self

2019
Angel Has Fallen

as Agent Thompson

2018
Red Table Talk

as Self - Co-host

2017
Girls Trip

as Lisa Cooper

2016
Bad Moms

as Stacy

2015
2014
Gotham

as Fish Mooney

2013
Madly Madagascar

as Gloria (voice)

2012
Men in Black 3

as Party Guest (uncredited)

2009
Merry Madagascar

as Gloria (voice)

2009
Hawthorne

as Christina Hawthorne

2009
Skavlan

as Self - Guest

2008
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

as Gloria (voice)

2008
The Women

as Alex Fisher

2008
2007
Reign Over Me

as Janeane Johnson

2006
The One Show

as Self

2005
Madagascar

as Gloria (voice)

2005
2004
Collateral

as Annie Farrell

2003
2003
Maniac Magee

as Narrator

2001
Ali

as Sonji Roi

2001
Kingdom Come

as Charisse Slocumb

2001
2000
Bamboozled

as Sloan Hopkins

1999
1998
Welcome to Hollywood

as Jada Pinkett Smith

1998
Return to Paradise

as M.J. Major

1998
Woo

as Woo

1998
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

as Self (archive footage)

1998
1997
Scream 2

as Maureen Evans

1997
The View

as Self

1996
Set It Off

as Stony

1996
The Nutty Professor

as Carla Purty

1995
MADtv

as Self

1994
1994
Jason's Lyric

as Lyric

1994
The Inkwell

as Lauren Kelly

1994
Ellen

as Ellen Screen Test #3

1993
1993
1990
True Colors

as Beverly

1987
A Different World

as Lena James

1987
21 Jump Street

as Nicole

1953
The Oscars

as Self

Producer

Redd Zone

as Producer

2023
African Queens: Njinga

as Executive Producer

2023
Queen Cleopatra

as Executive Producer

2022
Off Thee Leash

as Producer

2021
King Richard

as Executive Producer

2020
Life in a Year

as Executive Producer

2020
Charm City Kings

as Executive Producer

2020
Cops and Robbers

as Executive Producer

2019
Hala

as Executive Producer

2014
Annie

as Producer

2013
After Earth

as Producer

2012
2010
The Karate Kid

as Producer

2009
Hawthorne

as Producer

2008
The Secret Life of Bees

as Executive Producer

2003
All of Us

as Executive Producer

Creator

Almost

as Creator

2018
Red Table Talk

as Creator

2003
All of Us

as Creator

Writer

2008
2008

Director

2008
The Human Contract

as Director