Jada Pinkett Smith
- Producer
- Actress
- Writer
Jada Koren Pinkett Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Robsol
Grant Pinkett, Jr., a contractor, and 'Gammy' Adrienne Banfield Norris, a
nurse. They divorced after only a few months of marriage. Her father is
of African-American descent and her mother is of Afro-Caribbean
ancestry (from Barbados and Jamaica). Jada majored in dance and
choreography at the Baltimore School for the Arts, where one of her
classmates was Tupac Shakur. She spent a year at the North Carolina School of the Arts before dropping out to pursue her career in acting. Her big break came in 1991 when she was cast in the part of a college frosh on the television sitcom A Different World (1987). She made her feature film debut two years later in Menace II Society (1993). She
did not gain widespread recognition, however, until her role opposite
Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor (1996).
In addition to being in front of the camera, she has spent time behind
it directing music videos. Pinkett-Smith is married to Will Smith, and they have a son, Jaden Smith; and a daughter, Willow Smith.
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