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Will Smith: Biography at a Glance

  • Will Smith is an actor, producer and musician, two-time Academy Award nominee, Grammy Award, and NAACP award winner who has enjoyed a diverse career encompassing films, television, and multiplatinum records.
  • His filmography includes transformative portrayals of true-life icons in Ali, The Pursuit of Happiness, and Concussion.
  • He has also starred in Hitch, I am Legend, I, Robot, Independence Day, and Men in Black I, II, & III.
  • He began his career as a musician selling millions of records worldwide before crossing over into television with the beloved Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
  • Co-founder of Westbrook Inc and its subsidiary, Westbrook Studios which has projects including King Richard, EmancipationPlanes, Trains, & AutomobilesRedd Zone, and Soul Superhero.
  • His portrayal of Richard Williams in King Richard earned him his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Film.
  • He also executive produced and hosted Netflix’s six-part docuseries Amend: The Fight for America, which explores the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
  • In 2021, he released Will, a memoir that is a product of a profound journey of self-knowledge, a reckoning with all that your will can get you and all that it can leave behind.
  • He is dedicated to working toward the advancement of communities and individuals through the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation.

Biography

Will Smith is an actor, producer, musician, two-time Academy Award nominee, Grammy Award and NAACP award winner who has enjoyed a diverse career encompassing films, television, and multiplatinum records.

Starting as a rapper in 1985, Smith is best known for his acting roles in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, I Am Legend, the Bad Boys and Men in Black film series, Hitch, and Aladdin. His vast filmography also includes transformative portrayals of true-life icons in Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness, both of which garnered him Academy Award nominations, as well as his role in Concussion. Smith recently produced and starred in 2020’s biggest box office hit, Bad Boys for Life, in addition to producing and appearing in HBO Max’s emotional and most-watched, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 30th Anniversary Reunion special.

Next up, Smith will produce and star as Richard Williams, infamous father of American icons Venus and Serena Williams, in Warner Brothers’ King Richard, which earned him his first Golden Globe Award. Smith is also a producer on Apple’s scripted action thriller Emancipation, directed by Antoine Fuqua, and produced by his Westbrook Studios.

In 2019, Smith launched his media company, Westbrook Inc. alongside Jada Pinkett Smith, Miguel Melendez, and Kosaku Yada, which focuses on empowering artists to tell stories that connect with a global audience. Westbrook houses Westbrook Studios, Westbrook Media, the digital content studio, social media management, and creative brand incubator, and direct-to-consumer business, Good Goods. Westbrook Studios is home to the Emmy® nominated Facebook Watch series, "Red Table Talk" and is rapidly expanding its footprint in entertainment, serving as the studio home to all-new premium TV and motion picture projects. Smith will serve as a producer through Westbrook on his upcoming projects including King Richard, Emancipation, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Additionally, they produced the 30th-anniversary reunion special of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and the Snap series “Will From Home.” In response to the stay-at-home order “Will From Home” featured appearances by Smith's family, celebrity friends, and everyday people who were also isolated indoors. The media company also announced Peacock’s unprecedented two-season order of Bel-Air, a dramatic reimagining of the Fresh Prince series.

He and his wife also founded the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation to benefit inner-city community development, youth educational projects, and underprivileged children and their families.

Will and his entire team were a pleasure to work with and Will was great onstage and off.

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