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Willard Christopher Smith II (born September 25,
1968) is an African American actor and rapper.  He
is one of few people who has enjoyed success in
the three major entertainment media in the United
States: film|movies, television, and the music
industry.

==Biography==
Smith was born and raised in the Wynnefield
section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second
of four children.  He often uses the line "West
Philadelphia born and raised" to describe his
roots. 

Will Smith started his career as The Fresh Prince,
the vocalist of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff &
the Fresh Prince, which included childhood friend
DJ Jazzy Jeff|Jeffrey "DJ Jazzy Jeff" Townes as
its turntabilist and record producer|producer. The
duo was known for performing humorous,
radio-friendly songs, most notably "Parents Just
Don't Understand" and "Summertime".

Smith was a charismatic and energetic performer,
and in 1990, the NBC television network signed him
up and built a sitcom, The Fresh Prince of
Bel-Air, around him.  The show was successful and
ran for six seasons.

Although he made a notable dramatic film debut in
Six Degrees of Separation (film)|Six Degrees of
Separation (in which he played totally against
type as a gay con man) while still appearing in
Fresh Prince, Smith's movie career took off with
his role in Bad Boys (movie)|Bad Boys (1995) along
with co-star Martin Lawrence. 

After Fresh Prince came to an end in 1996, Smith
began a successful solo career in music and
simultaneously starred in a series of movies.  The
first two films were hugely successful summer
blockbusters: Independence Day
(movie)|Independence Day (1996), where he plays a
fearless and confident fighter pilot, and Men in
Black (movie)|Men in Black (1997), where he plays
the comic and confident Agent J against Tommy Lee
Jones's deadpan Agent K.  Smith's acting in Men in
Black won critical praise, and both films
established Smith's commercial reputation as a
"bankable" star who had appeal across age, race,
and gender, and could "open" a film at the box
office.

Lead roles in Enemy of the State, Wild Wild West
(movie)|Wild Wild West, Ali (movie)|Ali, Bad Boys
II and I, Robot (movie)|I, Robot then followed. 
His most recent film is 2005's  Hitch
(movie)|Hitch. (Like Smith, Hitch co-star Kevin
James starred in a sitcom named for royalty, The
King of Queens.)

Smith was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Actor for his portrayal of the boxer Muhammad Ali
in Ali (movie)|Ali. (His Ali co-star Jamie Foxx,
another actor/musician/comedian, later won the
award for the 2004 Ray Charles biopic Ray
(movie)|Ray.)

Smith also released a string of hit singles, often
associated with his most recent movie, throughout
the late 1990s. The most notable of these were his
#1 hit theme song "Men in Black (song)|Men in
Black", the #1 hit "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" (which
made jiggy a catchphrase for a while in 1998), and
"Just the Two of Us", an affecting message to his
young son.   His first two solo albums went RIAA
certification|platinum, but his third, on Columbia
Records, flopped, and after a quick Greatest Hits
release that was almost not advertised at all, he
was dropped by the label. He signed a recording
contract with Interscope Records and released the
moderately successful Lost and Found in 2005.

On July 2, 2005, Smith served as host for the Live
8 concert, Philadelphia|Live 8 concert in his
native Philadelphia before an enormous crowd, and
later performed a set with DJ Jazzy Jeff.

Smith married actress Sharee Zampino in 1992. They
had a son, Willard Christopher III, also known as
"Trey". They divorced in 1995. Smith married
actress Jada Pinkett Smith|Jada Pinkett in 1997.
They have had two children: Jaden Christopher Syre
(1998) and Willow Camille Reign (2000). Along with
his brother Harry Smith, he owns
http://www.treyballdevelopment.com/ Treyball
Development Inc., a Beverly Hills,
California|Beverly Hills-based company named after
his first son.

==Discography==

=== Albums ===

====as DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince====
*Rock the House (DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
album)|Rock the House (1987) #83 US
*He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper (1988) #4 US
*And in this Corner... (1989) #39 US
*Homebase (DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince
album)|Homebase (1991) #12 US
*Code Red (DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince
album)|Code Red (1993) #64 US
*Greatest Hits (DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
album)|Greatest Hits (1998) (including material
from Will Smith's solo career) #144 US, #20 UK

====as Will Smith====
*Big Willie Style (1997) #8 US, #9 UK (U.S. Sales
- 9 million)
*Willennium (1999) #5 US, #10 UK (U.S. Sales - 2
million)
*Born to Reign (2002) #13 US, #24 UK (U.S. Sales -
500,000+)
*Greatest Hits (Will Smith album)|Greatest Hits
(2002)
*Lost & Found (2005) #6 US, #15 UK (U.S. Sales -
500,000+)

=== Hit singles ===

==== as DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince ====
* 1986 "Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble" #21 UK
* 1988 "Parents Just Don't Understand" #12 US
* 1988 "Nightmare on My Street" #15 US
* 1991 "Summertime" #4 US, #8 UK
* 1991 "Ring My Bell" #20 US
* 1992 "How much I love you" #19 UK
* 1993 "Boom! Shake the Room" #13 US, #1 UK
* 1993 "I'm Looking for the One (To Be with Me)"
#24 UK
* 1994 "Can't Wait to Be with You" #29 UK
* 1994 "Summertime" (re-entry) #29 UK
* 1995 "Boom! Shake the Room" (remix) #40 UK
* 1998 "Lovely Daze" #37 UK

==== as Will Smith ====

* 1997 "Men in Black (song)|Men in Black" #1 US,
#1 UK, #1 Australia
* 1997 "Just Cruisin'" #23 UK
* 1998 "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" #1 US, #3 UK
* 1998 "Just the Two of Us" #20 US, #2 UK
* 1998 "Miami" #17 US, #3 UK
* 1999 "Boy You Knock Me Out" (Tatyana Ali feat.
Will Smith) #3 UK
* 1999 "Wild Wild West (song)|Wild Wild West"
(feat. Dru Hill & Kool Moe Dee) #1 US, #2 UK
* 1999 "Will 2K" #25 US, #2 UK
* 2000 "Freakin' It" #15 UK
* 2002 "Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head)" (feat.
Tra-Knox) #3 UK
* 2005 Switch (song)|Switch #7 US, #4 UK, #1
Australia
* 2005 "Party Starter"

==Filmography==
*Where the Day Takes You (1992)
*Made in America (1993)
*Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
*Bad Boys (movie)|Bad Boys (1995)
*Independence Day (movie)|Independence Day (1996)
*Men in Black (movie)|Men in Black (1997)
*Enemy of the State (1998)
*Torrance Rises (1999) (short subject)
*Wild Wild West (1999)
*Men in Black: Alien Attack (2000) (short subject)
*Welcome to Hollywood (2000) (documentary)
*The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
*Ali (film)|Ali (2001)
*Men in Black II (2002)
*Bad Boys II (2003)
*A Closer Walk (2004) (documentary) (narrator)
*Jersey Girl (2004 movie)|Jersey Girl (2004)
(cameo)
*I, Robot (2004)
*Shark Tale (2004) (voice)
*There's a God on the Mic (2005) (documentary)
*Hitch (movie)|Hitch (2005) (also producer)
*Pursuit of Happyness (2006) (currently in
pre-production) (also producer)
*Time Share (2006) (currently announced start of
production) (also producer)
*Tonight, He Comes (2006) (currently announced
start of production)

===Salary History===
*I, Robot (2004) $28,000,000
*Bad Boys II (2003) $20,000,000 + 20% of the gross
*Men in Black II (2002) $20,000,000 + 10% Gross
*Ali (2001) $20,000,000
*The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) $10,000,000 
*Wild Wild West (1999) $7,000,000
*Enemy of the State (1998) $14,000,000
*Men in Black (1997) $5,000,000
*Independence Day (1996) $5,000,000
*Bad Boys (1995) $2,000,000
*Six Degrees of Separation (1993) $500,000
*Made in America (1993) $100,000
*Where the Day Takes You (1992) $50,000

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:See also William Smith for other people with
similar names.  For the American football player,
see Will Smith (football player).

Willard Christopher Smith II (born September 25,
1968) is an African American actor and rapper.  He
is one of few people who has enjoyed success in
the three major entertainment media in the United
States: film|movies, television, and the music
industry.

==Biography==
Smith was born and raised in the Wynnefield
section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second
of four children.  He often uses the line "West
Philadelphia born and raised" to describe his
roots. He is a graduate of Overbrook High School 

Will Smith started his career as The Fresh Prince,
the vocalist of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff &
the Fresh Prince, which included childhood friend
DJ Jazzy Jeff|Jeffrey "DJ Jazzy Jeff" Townes as
turntablist and record producer|producer. The duo
was known for performing humorous, radio-friendly
songs, most notably "Parents Just Don't
Understand" and "Summertime".

Smith was a charismatic and energetic performer,
and in 1990, the NBC television network signed him
up and built a sitcom, The Fresh Prince of
Bel-Air, around him.  The show was successful and
ran for six seasons.

Although he made a notable dramatic film debut in
Six Degrees of Separation (film)|Six Degrees of
Separation (in which he played totally against
type as a gay con man) while still appearing in
Fresh Prince, Smith's movie career took off with
his role in Bad Boys (movie)|Bad Boys (1995) along
with co-star Martin Lawrence. 

After Fresh Prince came to an end in 1996, Smith
began a successful solo career in music and
simultaneously starred in a series of movies.  The
first two films were hugely successful summer
blockbusters: Independence Day
(movie)|Independence Day (1996), where he plays a
fearless and confident fighter pilot, and Men in
Black (movie)|Men in Black (1997), where he plays
the comic and confident Agent J against Tommy Lee
Jones's deadpan Agent K.  Smith's acting in Men in
Black won critical praise, and both films
established Smith's commercial reputation as a
"bankable" star who had appeal across age, race,
and gender, and could "open" a film at the box
office.

Lead roles in Enemy of the State, Wild Wild West
(movie)|Wild Wild West, Ali (movie)|Ali, Bad Boys
II and I, Robot (movie)|I, Robot then followed. 
His most recent film is 2005's  Hitch
(movie)|Hitch. (Like Smith, Hitch co-star Kevin
James starred in a sitcom named for royalty, The
King of Queens.)

Smith was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Actor for his portrayal of the boxer Muhammad Ali
in Ali (movie)|Ali. (His Ali co-star Jamie Foxx,
another actor/musician/comedian, later won the
award for the 2004 Ray Charles biopic Ray
(movie)|Ray.)

Smith also released a string of hit singles, often
associated with his most recent movie, throughout
the late 1990s. The most notable of these were his
#1 hit theme song "Men in Black (song)|Men in
Black", the #1 hit "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" (which
made jiggy a catchphrase for a while in 1998), and
"Just the Two of Us", an affecting message to his
young son.   His first two solo albums went RIAA
certification|platinum, but his third, on Columbia
Records, was a sales dissapointment compared to
his past efforts, and after a quick Greatest Hits
release that was almost not advertised at all, he
was dropped by the label. He signed a recording
contract with Interscope Records and released the
so far, moderately successful Lost and Found in
2005.

On July 2, 2005, Smith served as host for the Live
8 concert, Philadelphia|Live 8 concert in his
native Philadelphia before an enormous crowd, and
later performed a set with DJ Jazzy Jeff.

Smith married actress Sharee Zampino in 1992. They
had a son, Willard Christopher III, also known as
"Trey". They divorced in 1995. Smith married
actress Jada Pinkett Smith|Jada Pinkett in 1997.
They have had two children: Jaden Christopher Syre
(1998) and Willow Camille Reign (2000). Along with
his brother Harry Smith, he owns
http://www.treyballdevelopment.com/ Treyball
Development Inc., a Beverly Hills,
California|Beverly Hills-based company named after
his first son.

==Discography==

=== Albums ===

====as DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince====
*Rock the House (DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
album)|Rock the House (1987) #83 US
*He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper (1988) #4 US
*And in this Corner... (1989) #39 US
*Homebase (DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince
album)|Homebase (1991) #12 US
*Code Red (DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince
album)|Code Red (1993) #64 US
*Greatest Hits (DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
album)|Greatest Hits (1998) (including material
from Will Smith's solo career) #144 US, #20 UK

====as Will Smith====
*Big Willie Style (1997) #8 US, #9 UK (U.S. Sales
- 9 million)
*Willennium (1999) #5 US, #10 UK (U.S. Sales - 2
million)
*Born to Reign (2002) #13 US, #24 UK (U.S. Sales -
500,000+)
*Greatest Hits (Will Smith album)|Greatest Hits
(2002)
*Lost & Found (2005) #6 US, #15 UK (U.S. Sales -
500,000+)
Total Album Sales: 15 million

=== Hit singles ===

==== as DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince ====
* 1986 "Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble" #21 UK
* 1988 "Parents Just Don't Understand" #12 US
* 1988 "Nightmare on My Street" #15 US
* 1991 "Summertime (Will Smith song)|Summertime"
#4 US, #8 UK
* 1991 "Ring My Bell" #20 US
* 1992 "How Much I Love You" #19 UK
* 1993 "Boom! Shake the Room" #13 US, #1 UK
* 1993 "I'm Looking for the One (To Be with Me)"
#24 UK
* 1994 "Can't Wait to Be with You" #29 UK
* 1994 "Summertime" (re-entry) #29 UK
* 1995 "Boom! Shake the Room" (remix) #40 UK
* 1998 "Lovely Daze" #37 UK

==== as Will Smith ====

* 1997 "Men in Black (song)|Men in Black" #1 US,
#1 UK, #1 Australia
* 1997 "Just Cruisin'" #23 UK
* 1998 "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" #1 US, #3 UK, #6
Australia
* 1998 "Just the Two of Us" #20 US, #2 UK
* 1998 "Miami (song)|Miami" #17 US, #3 UK
* 1999 "Boy You Knock Me Out" (Tatyana Ali feat.
Will Smith) #3 UK
* 1999 "Wild Wild West (song)|Wild Wild West"
(feat. Dru Hill & Kool Moe Dee) #1 US, #2 UK
* 1999 "Will 2K" #25 US, #2 UK
* 2000 "Freakin' It" #15 UK
* 2002 "Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head)" (feat.
Tra-Knox) #3 UK
* 2005 "Switch (song)|Switch" #7 US, #4 UK, #1
Australia
* 2005 "Party Starter"
Total Single sales: 4 million

==Filmography==
*Where the Day Takes You (1992)
*Made in America (1993)
*Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
*Bad Boys (movie)|Bad Boys (1995)
*Independence Day (movie)|Independence Day (1996)
*Men in Black (movie)|Men in Black (1997)
*Enemy of the State (1998)
*Torrance Rises (1999) (short subject)
*Wild Wild West (1999)
*Men in Black: Alien Attack (2000) (short subject)
*Welcome to Hollywood (2000) (documentary)
*The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
*Ali (film)|Ali (2001)
*Men in Black II (2002)
*Bad Boys II (2003)
*A Closer Walk (2004) (documentary) (narrator)
*Jersey Girl (2004 movie)|Jersey Girl (2004)
(cameo)
*I, Robot (2004)
*Shark Tale (2004) (voice)
*There's a God on the Mic (2005) (documentary)
*Hitch (movie)|Hitch (2005) (also producer)
*Pursuit of Happyness (2006) (currently in
pre-production) (also producer)
*Time Share (2006) (currently announced start of
production) (also producer)
*Tonight, He Comes (2006) (currently announced
start of production)

===Salary History===
*I, Robot (2004) $28,000,000
*Bad Boys II (2003) $20,000,000 + 20% of the gross
*Men in Black II (2002) $20,000,000 + 10% Gross
*Ali (2001) $20,000,000
*The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) $10,000,000 
*Wild Wild West (1999) $7,000,000
*Enemy of the State (1998) $14,000,000
*Men in Black (1997) $5,000,000
*Independence Day (1996) $5,000,000
*Bad Boys (1995) $2,000,000
*Six Degrees of Separation (1993) $500,000
*Made in America (1993) $100,000
*Where the Day Takes You (1992) $50,000
*Total Salary Gross: 135,000,000

==External links==
*http://www.jazzyjefffreshprince.com/ Will Smith &
Jazzy Jeff Fan Site
*http://www.treyballdevelopment.com/ Official
Website for Treyball Development Inc.
*http://www.willsmith.com/ WillSmith.Com
*imdb name|id=0000226|name=Will Smith