Jada Pinkett Smith's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) HawthoRNe Christina H… A Different World Lena James

Main Movie Roles 2008 - The Human Contract 2008 - Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa 2008 - The Women 2007 - Reign Over Me 2005 - Madagascar 2004 - Collateral 2003 - The Matrix Revolutions 2003 - The Matrix Reloaded 2003 - Tupac: Resurrection 2001 - Ali 2000 - Bamboozled 1998 - Return to Paradise 1997 - Scream 2 1996 - Set It Off 1996 - The Nutty Professor 1994 - Jason's Lyric 1994 - A Low Down Dirty Shame 1993 - Menace II Society

BIOGRAPHY:

Jada Pinkett Smith was born to Robson Pinkett Jr. and Adrienne Banfield in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father was a contractor and her mother was a nurse. They divorced after only a few months of marriage. She 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 (I) 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 (I), and they have a son, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith; and a daughter, Willow Camille Reign Smith.


TRIVIA:

• Has been with 'Will Smith (I)' (qv) since 1995, two years before their marriage.
• Sent director 'Wes Craven' (qv) a set of steak knives after appearing in Craven's film, _Scream 2 (1997)_ (qv).
• Is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated.
• She and husband 'Will Smith (I)' (qv) own a house in Howard County, Maryland. Smith often plays basketball with children who attend Homewood High School, a school for troubled children.
• Step-mother of 'Trey Smith (II)' (qv) Will's son with his first wife Sheree.
• Attended the North Carolina School Of The Arts for one year but did not graduate because she left for California to pursue acting. She is a honorary Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority member.
• (31 October 2000) Her second child with husband 'Will Smith (I)' (qv), a daughter, named Willow Camille Reign Smith, was born weighing 6 lbs 10 ozs.
• Miss Maryland, 1988.