Read about:

Will Smith- Rapper and Actor

will smith

The hottom line with me is fun. I enjoy life, I enjoy people. And people—black, white, Asian, or alien—enjoy that energy.
—WILL SMITH

At eighteen, Will Smith was millionaire. Two years ter, in 1990, he was broke and owed the federal government millions of dollars in taxes. While he had money, he enjoyed every minute of it— perhaps too much. In one year he had spent $800,000. “Being able to buy anything you want makes you a little crazy,” he admitted. Smith realized he had strayed from the values his parents instilled in him. It was time, he said, to “get it all together.”
Willard C. Smith Jr. was born on September 25, 1968, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Willard’ C. Smith Sr. and Caroline Smith. He was the second of Willard and Caroline’s four children; he had an older sister, Pam, and younger twin siblings, Harry and Ellen. As a child Will learned about and admired the celebrities who had come from his West Philadelphia neighborhood, including basketball great Wilt Chamberlain and NASA astronaut Guion Bluford. He loved Dr. Seuss books for their rhyming stanzas; as an adult he attributed his love for rap music to Seuss’s books. “If you listen to them a certain way, books like Green Eggs and Ham and Hop on Pop sound a lot like hip-hop,” he explained.
When Will was twelve, a band called the Sugar Hill Gang released Rapper’s Delight. It was a new form of music, and like many other American music fans, Will was captivated with its unique sound and rhythm. He began practicing rap and started spinning records at neighborhood parties. Before he got to high school, he gained a citywide reputation as a rap deejay.
At Overbrook High School, Will did well but was a bit of a class clown. He enjoyed entertaining people and making them laugh. He was nicknamed “Prince” for his persuasive way of talking himself out of trouble. Rap had become his passion, and in 1986, although he was accepted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Will decided to postpone college and pursue a music career.
At a parry one night Will was introduced to rapper and deejay Jazzy Jeff (Jeff Townes). The two performed an impromptu set together, with Jeff cutting the records and Will rapping. They felt instant chemistry; before long they were working together as “Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.” Their first single, “Girls Ain’t Nothing but Trouble,” was a smash hit, selling 100,000 copies in the United States and hitting England’s Top 20.
The duo was quickly contracted to record an album for Jive Records. Rock the House catapulted Jaz?,y Jeff and the Fresh Prince into the national spotlight. Their second LP, He’s the DJ, -I’m the Rapper, went platinum (more than 1 million copies sold) and earned industry and popular acclaim. The two enjoyed their success immensely—but it turned to trouble when Will went broke.
The young performer refused to panic. Instead, he decided to change his freewheeling spending habits, and he returned to work more determined than ever. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince released three more albums, including Homebase, from which the single “Summertime” won a 1 991 Grammy. By this rime Will was ready to branch out, so when producers Quincy Jones and Benny Medina offered him a chance at a TV series, he took it. Loosely based on Medina’s life, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air traced the exploits of an inner-city kid who is placed with a well-to-do family in Beverly Hills, California. The sitcom, which debuted in September 1990, was a perfect fit for Will. Viewers were charmed by his title character, and the show was an instant hit.
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ran for six years. In that time, Will had married and had a son, Willard C. “Trey” Smith III, born in 1992. He had appeared in several feature films, including Made in America., Six Degrees of Separation, and Bad Roys, opposite stars such as Whoopi Goldberg, Donald Sutherland, and Martin Lawrence, Will decided it was time to move on from Fresh Prince. “I did a whole lot of living in that time/’ he said. “[But] my life experiences are so far advanced beyond the character’s life experiences.” In May 1996 Will and rhe rest of the sitcom cast bid farewell to their viewers in a one-hour special.
Less than two months later Will headlined in the action film Independence Day. I[ had taken him five years to become a rap star and three to become a TV star—but with Independence Day he leaped from aspiring young actor to international star. Audiences jammed theaters to see fighter pilot Captain Steven Hiller and company (Harry Connick Jr., Jeff Coldblum, and Randy Quaid) attack aliens trying to destroy Earth. The film's dazzling special effects and nonstop action made it a smash hit. "I don't know when I have enjoyed a movie as much as Independence Day," said one critic enthusiastically. "[It] achieves what so many films can’t, a balance between action, humor, and character.”
Smith’s performance brought even more high praise. “At 27, he’s got one of the most impressively varied resumes in young Hollywood,” wrote Newsweek of the young celebrity. “With Independence Day, he goes from big star to really, really big star.” Smith had earned the accolades—he had prepared for his role by practicing in a flight simulator and training with real soldiers at a U.S. military base. Director Steven Spielberg was so impressed with Smith’s Independence Day performance that he sought him out to star in his next film, Men in Black (1997). Smith played Agent J, a secret government operative hired to keep a watchful eye on the aliens that lived on Earth. With Agent K (Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones), Smith’s character made sure that no humans ever learned that aliens lived among them. (The two sported dark suits and sunglasses, giving the film its title.)
Will had a great time. Jones, usually a “serious” guy, had the cast and crew in hysterics with his deadpan delivery and comedic timing. “Men in Black is the wryest, sharpest, most entertaining special-effects film in recent memory,” said one enthusiastic critic. Smith earned $5 million for his role. He also recorded the title song, which he performed the following year—dressed in a Philadelphia Phillies jersey—at the Grammy Awards. The song won Smith a third Grammy.
Smith released two solo albums in the late 1990s, Big Willie Style and Willenium, and obtained a fourth Grammy for the single “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It.” He starred in Enemy of the State and Wild Wild West, and after a heartwarming performance in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), he gained thirty-five pounds and toned up his body to play boxing legend Muhammad All in Alt. Smith not only looked the part, he had studied hours of footage to learn the nuances of the boxer’s famous personality. The performance won Smith his first Academy Award nomination, for Best Actor. In 2002 Smith reunited with Tommy Lee Jones for Men in Black II.
Smith now commands $20 million per film, but he has never again spent beyond his means. In 1997 he married actress Jada Pinkett (his first marriage ended in 1995). A son, Jaden Christopher, arrived in 1998; daughter Willow Camille Reign Smith was born in 2000. Still going strong in a success-filled career, Smith has found his most vital role: family man, husband, and father.

ill Smith iWll Smith WWill Smith Qill Smith Eill Smith 2ill Smith 3ill Smith Aill Smith Sill Smith Wll Smith Wlil Smith Wiill Smith Wull Smith Woll Smith Wjll Smith Wkll Smith W8ll Smith W9ll Smith Wil Smith Will Smith Willl Smith Wikl Smith Wiol Smith Wipl Smith Wil lSmith Wilk Smith Wilo Smith Wilp Smith WillSmith WillS mith Will Smith Will mith Will mSith Will SSmith Will Amith Will Dmith Will Wmith Will Emith Will Zmith Will Xmith Will Sith Will Simth Will Smmith Will Snith Will Sjith Will Skith Will Smth Will Smtih Will Smiith Will Smuth Will Smoth Will Smjth Will Smkth Will Sm8th Will Sm9th Will Smih Will Smiht Will Smitth Will Smirh Will Smiyh Will Smi5h Will Smi6h Will Smifh Will Smigh Will Smit Will Smithh Will Smitg Will Smitj Will Smity Will Smitu Will Smitb Will Smitn

Will Smith movies Will Smith Will Smith marries Will Smith biography list movies with Will Smith Will Smith filmography Will Smith life Will Smith movie bio how tall is Will Smith all Will Smith movies who is Will Smith dating Will Smith new movie what movies has Will Smith been in Will Smith born Will Smith pics Will Smith height weight movies Will Smith starred in Will Smith wedding Will Smith height Will Smith interview Will Smith family list of Will Smith films where does Will Smith live all movies with Will Smith Will Smith aimee mann Will Smith films Will Smith life story Will Smith naked Will Smith wife Will Smith and wife movies that Will Smith played in Will Smith family tree walter Will Smith Will Smith wallpaper Will Smith at imdb Will Smith marries demi moore Will Smith movie Will Smith played batman/ bruce wayne Will Smith daughter Will Smith girlfriend Will Smith marriage Will Smith w magazine Will Smith played dwayne hoover in this movie is Will Smith jewish surrogates Will Smith Will Smith pictures video what car does Will Smith drive Will Smith children Will Smith sonoma tribute Will Smith as batman/ bruce wayne new Will Smith film bruce willes Will Smith as batman/bruce wayne surrogate movie Will Smith Will Smith bio Will Smith surrogates Will Smith and demi moore Will Smith fake Will Smith father funeral Will Smith full frontal Will Smith music list all Will Smith films new Will Smith movie Will Smith + surrogates Will Smith as batman bruce wayne Will Smith married Will Smith new wife Will Smith surrogates torrent Will Smith tribute who is Will Smith dating now Will Smith Will Smith gagged in pulp fiction Will Smith hack movie Will Smith in profile Will Smith jewellery Will Smith kids Will Smith new movies Will Smith real name Will Smith wife emma italian designers in accessories and jewellery Will Smith