Jada Pinkett Smith
Acting
1971-09-18 · Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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
Queen Cleopatra
2023 · Series
African Queens: Njinga
2023 · Series
Off Thee Leash
2022 · Series
The Matrix Resurrections
2021 · Movie
King Richard
2021 · Movie
Madame X Presents: Madame Xtra Q&A
2021 · Movie
The Equalizer
2021 · Series
Cops and Robbers
2020 · Movie
Life in a Year
2020 · Movie
Showbiz Kids
2020 · Movie
Charm City Kings
2020 · Movie
Hala
2019 · Movie
Angel Has Fallen
2019 · Movie
The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
2019 · Series
Sprinter
2019 · Movie
Will Smith's Bucket List
2019 · Series
Kelly Talk
2019 · Movie
Red Table Talk
2018 · Series
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017 · Series
Girls Trip
2017 · Movie
Bad Moms
2016 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
Magic Mike XXL
2015 · Movie
Annie
2014 · Movie
Gotham
2014 · Series
Gotham: The Legend Reborn
2014 · Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013 · Movie
After Earth
2013 · Movie
Madly Madagascar
2013 · Movie
Dreamworks: Holiday Classics
2012 · Movie
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
2012 · Movie
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
2012 · Movie
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012 · Movie
Men in Black 3
2012 · Movie
The Talk
2010 · Series
The Karate Kid
2010 · Movie
Merry Madagascar
2009 · Movie
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Series
Hawthorne
2009 · Series
Skavlan
2009 · Series
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
2008 · Movie
The Secret Life of Bees
2008 · Movie
The Women
2008 · Movie
The Human Contract
2008 · Movie
I Am Legend: Awakening - Story 2: Isolation
2008 · Movie
I Am Legend Awakening
2008 · Movie
Oprah's Big Give
2008 · Series
Reign Over Me
2007 · Movie
The One Show
2006 · Series
VH1 Rock Honors
2006 · Series
Ozzfest: 10th Anniversary
2005 · Movie
The Reichen Show
2005 · Series
Madagascar
2005 · Movie
City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
2004 · Movie
The Matrix Revolutions Revisited
2004 · Movie
The Matrix Reloaded Revisited
2004 · Movie
The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase
2004 · Movie
Dog Whisperer
2004 · Series
Collateral
2004 · Movie
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004 · Movie
Tupac: Resurrection
2003 · Movie
The Matrix Revolutions
2003 · Movie
The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
2003 · Movie
Making 'Enter the Matrix'
2003 · Movie
All of Us
2003 · Series
The Matrix Reloaded
2003 · Movie
Maniac Magee
2003 · Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Ali
2001 · Movie
Good Day Live
2001 · Series
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
2001 · Movie
Kingdom Come
2001 · Movie
Welcome to Hollywood
2000 · Movie
Bamboozled
2000 · Movie
The Early Show
1999 · Series
TRL
1998 · Series
Return to Paradise
1998 · Movie
Woo
1998 · Movie
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998 · Movie
Scream 2
1997 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
The Chris Rock Show
1997 · Series
Set It Off
1996 · Movie
If These Walls Could Talk
1996 · Movie
Access Hollywood
1996 · Series
The Nutty Professor
1996 · Movie
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Series
MADtv
1995 · Series
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
1995 · Movie
A Low Down Dirty Shame
1994 · Movie
Jason's Lyric
1994 · Movie
The Inkwell
1994 · Movie
Ellen
1994 · Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
Menace II Society
1993 · Movie
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Series
True Colors
1990 · Series
Moe's World
1990 · Movie
Doogie Howser, M.D.
1989 · Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
A Different World
1987 · Series
21 Jump Street
1987 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Girls Trip 2
Movie
Redd Zone
Movie
Untitled Holiday Comedy Project
Movie
Almost
Series