Will Smith is an American actor, rapper and producer. He was born on September 25, 1968, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Smith began his career as a rapper in the late 1980s under the name The Fresh Prince.
He gained popularity in the early 1990s with the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Smith then transitioned to film and has starred in numerous blockbuster movies, including Independence Day, Men in Black and The Pursuit of Happyness.
He has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, winning one for his role in King Richard.
Smith is also a successful producer and has won multiple Grammy Awards for his music.
Will Smith siblings
Will has three siblings, an older sister named Pamela, born in 1964, and younger twin siblings, Harry and Ellen, born in 1971.
Additionally, he has a half-sister named Ashley Marie Pettway Smith.
Ellen Smith
Ellen Smith is the twin sister of Will Smith. She was born in 1971, along with her brother Harry.
Ellen is a multifaceted individual with interests in various fields.
She is a teaching fellow in British Social History at the University of Leicester, where she researches 19th and 20th-century colonial South Asia, focusing on death, archives and empire.
Harry Smith
Harry was born in 1971.
He is currently the CEO of Smith Global Media, a distribution company that signed a significant deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in 2017.
Harry is married to former model and TV presenter Amanda Lewis, who announced in 2020 that she had been battling stage three breast cancer for two years.
Pamela Smith
Pamela was born on April 18, 1965, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pamela initially showed an interest in acting but eventually found her calling in the field of education.
After completing her high school education, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Temple University.
Pamela embarked on a fulfilling career as an elementary school teacher. She has established herself as a respectable person despite the enormous success of her brother.
She owns and operates a retail store called Pash Boutique in Philadelphia, which specializes in jewelry, purses, hats and more.
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Will Smith’s parents
Will’s parents are Caroline Bright and Willard Carroll Smith Sr.
They raised their children in West Philadelphia, where Will and his siblings grew up in a middle-class family during the 1960s and 1970s.
Willard passed away in 2016, and Caroline is currently 85 years old and maintains a strong relationship with her children.
Will Smith career
Smith’s career has spanned over four decades, encompassing success in music, television and film.
He began his career as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince, achieving modest fame in the late 1980s.
In 1990, Smith gained widespread recognition for his role in the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which ran for nearly six years.
In the mid-1990s, he transitioned from television to film, starring in numerous blockbuster movies.
Smith is the only actor to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office, and eleven consecutive films gross over $150 million internationally.
He has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards
Some of Smith’s most notable films include Bad Boys, Independence Day, Men in Black, Hitch, The Pursuit of Happyness, I Am Legend, Hitch, Seven Pounds, Men in Black 3 and Suicide Squad.
Smith has also produced and starred in films such as Hitch, Seven Pounds and Men in Black 3.
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