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Jada Pinkett Smith is an American actress. In 1991, she made her first break with a role in the sitcom
A Different World. She has also starred in major motion pictures, including The Nutty Professor with
co-star Eddie Murphy, and Spike Lee’s highly controversial Bamboozled. Pinkett Smith is married to
Will Smith, and is the mother of the performers Jaden and Willow Smith.
Actress Jada Pinkett was born on September 18, 1971, in Baltimore, Maryland. The daughter of a
contractor Robsol, Jr. and nurse Adrienne Banfield, Pinkett attended the Baltimore School of the Arts
as a teenager, where one of her classmates and friends was the late rap artist Tupac Shakur. This
diminutive actress got her first big break in 1991, when she joined the cast of the Cosby Show spin-off
sitcom A Different World.
Her film career took off with the 1993 movie Menace II Society, and led to starring roles in Jason’s
Lyric (1994), Set it Off (1996), The Nutty Professor (1996), Scream 2 (1997) and Return to Paradise.
Jada Pinkett Smith has also stepped behind the camera to direct music videos, and has designed a
line of women’s clothing. She also appeared in Spike Lee’s highly controversial Bamboozled (2000), a
satire of racial bias in the television industry. In 2001, Pinkett Smith appeared with husband Will Smith
in the heavily publicized biopic Ali, in which she played Mohammad Ali’s first wife, Sonji. Two years
later, Pinkett Smith became known for her role as human rebel Niobe in the films The Matrix Reloaded
(2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003). She also co-starred with Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle
in the dramas Reign Over Me (2007) and The Women (2008) with Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva
Mendes and Debra Messing. Pinkett Smith made her debut as a director and writer in the film the
2008 independent film The Human Contract.