American actor, producer and rapper, from The Fresh Prince to Ali — photos, style and news
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood. Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards. In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show ran for nearly six years (1990–1996) on NBC and has been syndicated consistently on various networks since then. In the mid-1990s, Smith moved from television to film, and ultimately starred in numerous blockbuster films. Smith's first major roles were in the drama Six Degrees of Separation (1993) and the action film Bad Boys (1995) in which he starred opposite of Martin Lawrence. In 1996, Smith starred as part of an ensemble cast in Roland Emmerich's Independence Day. The film was a massive blockbuster, becoming the second highest grossing film in history at the time and establishing Smith as a prime box office draw. He later struck gold again in the summer of 1997 alongside Tommy Lee Jones in the summer hit Men in Black playing Agent J. In 1998, Smith starred with Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State. Smith portrayed heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali in the 2001 biopic Ali. For his performance he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. On December 10, 2007, Smith was honored at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Smith left an imprint of his hands and feet outside the world renowned theater in front of many fans. Smith starred opposite Margot Robbie in the romance drama Focus, released on February 27, 2015. In Concussion, Smith played Dr. Bennet Omalu of the Brain Injury Research Institute, the first to discover chronic traumatic encephalopathy. In 2016, Smith played Deadshot in the supervillain team-up action film Suicide Squad.
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood. Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards.
In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show ran for nearly six years (1990–1996) on NBC and has been syndicated consistently on various networks since then. In the mid-1990s, Smith moved from television to film, and ultimately starred in numerous blockbuster films.
Smith's first major roles were in the drama Six Degrees of Separation (1993) and the action film Bad Boys (1995) in which he starred opposite of Martin Lawrence. In 1996, Smith starred as part of an ensemble cast in Roland Emmerich's Independence Day. The film was a massive blockbuster, becoming the second highest grossing film in history at the time and establishing Smith as a prime box office draw. He later struck gold again in the summer of 1997 alongside Tommy Lee Jones in the summer hit Men in Black playing Agent J. In 1998, Smith starred with Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State.
Smith portrayed heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali in the 2001 biopic Ali. For his performance he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.
On December 10, 2007, Smith was honored at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Smith left an imprint of his hands and feet outside the world renowned theater in front of many fans.
Smith starred opposite Margot Robbie in the romance drama Focus, released on February 27, 2015
In Concussion, Smith played Dr. Bennet Omalu of the Brain Injury Research Institute, the first to discover chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
n 2016, Smith played Deadshot in the supervillain team-up action film Suicide Squad.
Apparel Search has selected Will Smith as a fashion celebrity.
Smith is the only entry in this batch with three full careers on the record. The first is music: modest fame in the late 1980s as the rapper The Fresh Prince, and four Grammy Awards across his career. The second is television: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, running nearly six years on NBC from 1990 to 1996 and syndicated consistently since. The third is film, built in steps — Six Degrees of Separation (1993) and Bad Boys (1995) opposite Martin Lawrence, then Independence Day (1996), the second highest grossing film in history at the time, and Men in Black (1997) as Agent J alongside Tommy Lee Jones. Enemy of the State (1998) with Gene Hackman and the biopic Ali (2001), which brought Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for his Muhammad Ali, complete the rise, and Newsweek's April 2007 verdict — the most powerful actor in Hollywood — is recorded here with his Grauman's Chinese Theatre honour of December 10, 2007. Later entries run from Focus (2015) opposite Margot Robbie and Concussion, as Dr. Bennet Omalu, to Deadshot in Suicide Squad (2016).
This page gathers Will Smith photos, videos, news and blog posts, with search routes to each through Bing, Google and YouTube. Smith closes both the W letter and the whole male directory, as the last name in the Male Fashion Celebrities Q-Z range and in the fifty-name A-Z list. A fashion celebrity in this guide is a person with celebrity status who is often watched and judged for what they wear, and Smith's route — a rapper's wardrobe carried through a hit sitcom into a decade of blockbuster leads, including Agent J's black suit in Men in Black — is one of the clearest style progressions in the section.
Smith has won four Grammy Awards. He achieved modest fame in the late 1980s as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince, before starring in the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996).
Smith portrayed heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali in the 2001 biopic Ali. For his performance he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.
Independence Day (1996), in which Smith starred as part of an ensemble cast, became the second highest grossing film in history at the time and established him as a prime box office draw. He struck gold again in the summer of 1997 alongside Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black, playing Agent J.