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Jada Pinkett Smith

January 26, 2023

In this article, the surname is Pinkett Smith.

Jada Koren Pinkett Smith (/ˈdʒeɪdə ˈpɪŋkɪt/; née Pinkett; born September 18, 1971)[1] is an American actress and talk show host. She is co-host of the Facebook Watch talk show Red Table Talk, for which she has received a Daytime Emmy Award. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021.[2]

Jada Pinkett Smith
Pinkett Smith at the PaleyFest in 2014
Born
Jada Koren Pinkett

(1971-09-18) September 18, 1971 (age 51)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Education
Occupations
  • Actress
  • talk show host
  • singer
  • businesswoman
Years active1990–present
Organizations
AgentCreative Arts Agency
Spouse
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(m. 1997)​
Children
Websitejadapinkettsmith.com

Pinkett Smith landed her big break on the sitcom A Different World in 1991. She went on to star in films such as Menace II Society (1993), The Nutty Professor (1996), Set It Off (1996), and Scream 2 (1997) before her prominent contributions to The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003) and the animated Madagascar films. She returned to television with starring roles on Hawthorne (2009–2011) and Gotham (2014–2017). Her other acting roles include Magic Mike XXL (2015), Bad Moms (2016), Girls Trip (2017), and The Matrix Resurrections (2021).

In 2002, Pinkett Smith launched a music career as the lead singer and songwriter for the heavy metal band Wicked Wisdom. In 2004, she published a children's book, Girls Hold Up This World, which landed at number two on The New York Times Best Seller list.[3] Along with her husband Will Smith, she has a production company and has producing credits in films, documentaries, and television series. In 2010, she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the Broadway musical Fela!.

Early life

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Jada Koren Pinkett was named after her mother's favorite soap opera actress, Jada Rowland.[1] She is of Jamaican and Bajan descent on her mother's side and African-American descent on her father's side. Her parents are Adrienne Banfield-Norris, the head nurse of a Baltimore inner-city clinic, and Robsol Pinkett Jr., who ran a construction company. Banfield-Norris became pregnant in high school; the couple married but divorced after several months.[4][5] Pinkett was raised by her mother and grandmother, Marion Martin Banfield, a Jamaican-born social worker.[6][7] "My grandmother was a doer who wanted to create a better community and add beauty to the world," she said.[8] Banfield noticed her granddaughter's passion for the performing arts and enrolled her in piano, tap dance, and ballet lessons.[9]

Pinkett attended the Baltimore School for the Arts, where she met and became close friends with her classmate, rapper Tupac Shakur. When Pinkett met Shakur, she was a drug dealer.[10] Her mother had been a heroin addict.[11][12] She majored in dance and theatre and graduated in 1989.[13] After graduation, she spent a year at the North Carolina School of the Arts.[14]

Film and television career

Early career (1990–1996)

 
Pinkett Smith at the Million Woman March in 1997

Pinkett began her acting career in 1990, when she starred in an episode of True Colors. She received guest roles in television shows such as Doogie Howser, M.D. (1991) and 21 Jump Street (1991), and earned a role on comedian Bill Cosby's NBC television sitcom A Different World in 1991, as college freshman Lena James.[4]

In 1993, Pinkett appeared in her first film, Menace II Society. She was cast as Ronnie, a single mother, due to a recommendation from her friend Tupac Shakur, who was set to appear in the film before he was fired.[15] Pinkett considered dropping out of the film after Shakur's departure but he convinced her to keep the role.[15]

In 1994, Pinkett acted with Keenen Ivory Wayans in the action and comedy film A Low Down Dirty Shame. She described her character, Peaches, as "raw" with "major attitude",[16] and her acting garnered positive reviews. The New York Times wrote, "Ms. Pinkett, whose performance is as sassy and sizzling as a Salt-N-Pepa recording, walks away with the movie."[17] In 1994, she also starred as a title character in Doug McHenry's romantic drama Jason's Lyric, opposite Allen Payne. In his positive review of the film, Roger Ebert wrote, "[Payne] has powerful chemistry with the enigmatic, teasing, tender character played by Pinkett; they really seem to like one another, which is not a feeling you always pick up in screen romances."[18] That year, she also had a role in the romantic comedy-drama The Inkwell.

In 1995, Pinkett played a convict on work release in the horror film Demon Knight.[19] According to Larenz Tate, Pinkett was set to appear in the film Dead Presidents (1995), but she turned down the role of Delilah due to her loyalty to Shakur.[20][21] The Hughes brothers directed the film and they had fired Shakur from Menace II Society.[22]

Pinkett also began directing music videos in 1995. She directed the music video "I'm Going Down" by girl group Y? N-Vee.[23] She also directed the music video "How Many Times" by Gerald Levert and appeared in the video.[24] "It was reported that Pinkett would direct the music video for Shakur's song "Can U Get Away" but another single was released instead.[25] Pinkett came up with the concept for his "California Love" music video which she had intended to direct, but she removed herself from the project.[26] In 1996, Pinkett directed the music video "Keep On, Keepin' On" by MC Lyte Feat. Xscape.

Rise to prominence (1996–2002)

Pinkett starred with actor and comedian Eddie Murphy in the 1996 remake of The Nutty Professor, portraying the love interest of a kindhearted university professor who is morbidly obese. The film was a commercial success, earning $25 million in its first weekend in North America and eventually $274 million worldwide.[27][28] She also had a lead role in Set It Off (1996), a crime drama about four women who rob banks to escape from poverty, opposite Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, and Kimberly Elise. Her acting in the film was noted in the San Francisco Chronicle, which wrote that she was "the one to watch".[29] Budgeted at $9 million, Set It Off made $41 million globally.[30]

In 1997, Pinkett had a cameo role in Scream 2 as a college student who is brutally murdered in front of hundreds of filmgoers. The film made more than $100 million at the North American box office. In 1998, she played a news reporter in the thriller Return to Paradise, with Joaquin Phoenix and Vince Vaughn, and took on the title role of an extroverted woman, alongside Tommy Davidson, in the comedy Woo. While favorably reviewing her performance in Woo, Derek Armstrong of AllMovie wrote that the script was "formulaic" and "not much of a vehicle for its impish starlet".[31] She next starred in Spike Lee's film Bamboozled (2000) as a personal assistant to the main character, played by Damon Wayans. Although the film met with mediocre reviews, it won the National Board of Review's Freedom of Expression Award.[32]

 
Pinkett Smith, c. 2001

In 2001, Pinkett Smith portrayed a loud-mouthed wife in the moderately successful comedy Kingdom Come, with LL Cool J, Vivica A. Fox, Anthony Anderson, Toni Braxton, and Whoopi Goldberg.[33] In the biographical sports drama Ali (2001), she played Sonji Roi, the first wife of boxer Muhammad Ali, opposite Will Smith. While she loved the final product, she initially did not think she was the right person for the role: "I felt like because we were a couple off screen, for people to see us together on the screen in a movie like this, would take people out of the movie, that people would see Will and Jada there—they wouldn't see Ali and Sonji".[34]

Commercial success (2003–2017)

Perhaps her best-known role to date is the part of human rebel Niobe in the films The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003), sequels to 1999's The Matrix, and the related video game Enter The Matrix (2003). The character was written specifically with Pinkett Smith in mind.[35] Directly after she filmed her scenes for Ali, Pinkett Smith flew to Australia to work on the Matrix sequels. The sequels earned over $91 million and $48 million during their North American opening weekends, respectively.[36][37]

In the neonoir thriller Collateral (2004), alongside Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise, Pinkett Smith played a U.S. Justice Department prosecutor and the target of a contract killer. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $217.8 million worldwide.[38] She voiced Gloria, a strong, confident, but sweet hippopotamus, in the computer animated film Madagascar (2005).[39] Tom McGrath, one of the film's directors, said they found all these traits in her voice when they listened to her.[40] Despite a mixed response from critics,[41] the film was a commercial success, earning $532 million worldwide,[42] and becoming one of the biggest hits of 2005.[43] In 2007, she played the wife of an affluent dentist in the drama Reign Over Me, with Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland. Entertainment Weekly called the film a "strange, black-and-blue therapeutic drama equally mottled with likable good intentions and agitating clumsiness", and found Pinkett Smith "graceful" in it.[44]

In 2008, Pinkett Smith took on the role of a lesbian author in the all-female comedy The Women, opposite Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra Messing, and Eva Mendes.[45] Though a commercial success, The Women was panned by critics, with Pinkett Smith earning a nomination for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for her performance. Her directorial debut was the drama The Human Contract (also 2008); she also wrote, and starred as the sister of a successful but unhappy businessman, with Paz Vega and Idris Elba. It debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008.[46] The success of Madagascar led Pinkett Smith to return to the role of Gloria in the 2008 sequel Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which earned US$603 million at the international box office.[47]

Pinkett Smith was an executive producer and starred as a Chief Nursing Officer in the TNT medical drama Hawthorne, which premiered on June 16, 2009.[48] USA Today remarked: "Pinkett Smith's Hawthorne is tired in every sense of the word, and she's not the only one. Every character and event falls under the category of painfully predictable".[49] Hawthorne ended on August 16, 2011, after three seasons. In 2010, she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the Broadway musical Fela!.[50] While she reprised the voice role of Gloria in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012), which made over US$746 million,[51] she also voiced the character in the NBC Christmas special Merry Madagascar (2009) and the direct-to-DVD film Madly Madagascar (2013).[citation needed]

Beginning in 2014, Pinkett Smith starred in the first season of the FOX crime drama Gotham, as Gotham City gangster Fish Mooney.[52][53] She returned, recurrently, in the second and third seasons of the series. In 2015, she starred in the comedy Magic Mike XXL, as the manager of a star stripper club, opposite Channing Tatum and Joe Manganiello. The film made US$122.5 million worldwide.[54] She starred with Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Christina Applegate in the comedy Bad Moms (2016), as the sidekick of a domineering parent-teacher association head.[55] It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the cast and humor, though did not feel it could "take full advantage of its assets".[56] The film, nevertheless, earned more than US$183.9 million.[57]

Pinkett Smith next took on the role of a nurse and uptight mom in the comedy Girls Trip (2017), alongside Regina Hall, Queen Latifah and Tiffany Haddish. The film was chosen by Time magazine as one of its top ten films of 2017,[58] and grossed US$140 million worldwide, including over US$100 million domestically, the first comedy of 2017 to do so.[59] In July 2017, Pinkett Smith appeared at the Essence Festival where, on the Empowerment Stage, she appeared to talk alongside Queen Latifah.[60] Pinkett Smith spoke highly of the cast reflecting their characters in real life, stating that they are all women who love other women and work to empower each other, a feature that she notes as rare in Hollywood.[61]

Later career (2018–present)

Beginning in May 2018, Pinkett Smith along with her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris and her daughter Willow Smith have hosted the Facebook Watch talk show Red Table Talk, which focuses on a wide range of topics.[62] In a positive review, USA Today's Maeve McDermott praised the series for its "insightful guests, no-holds-barred topics and Smith's magnetic hosting presence".[63] In 2021, Time magazine named Pinkett Smith and her co-hosts to its list of the 100 most influential people in the world; they were chosen by comedian Tiffany Haddish.[2] In 2021, Red Table Talk won a Daytime Emmy Award in the outstanding informative talk show category.[64]

Musical career

I listened to all kinds of metal as a kid. Metallica, Guns N' Roses. I would always look at Axl Rose and say, "Why aren't there any chicks out there doing this now?" I always wanted an opportunity to get out there and rock out.

—Pinkett Smith on why she created Wicked Wisdom[65]

Under the name Jada Koren, Pinkett Smith formed the metal band Wicked Wisdom in 2002.[65] The band consists of Pinkett Smith performing lead vocals, Pocket Honore (guitar, vocals), Cameron "Wirm" Graves (guitar, keyboard, vocals), and Rio (bass, vocals). The band is managed by James Lassiter and Miguel Melendez of Overbrook Entertainment, a company co-founded by Pinkett Smith's husband Will Smith.[66]

The band's self-titled debut album was released on February 21, 2006, by Pinkett Smith's production company 100% Womon and Suburban Noize Records. Will Smith served as the project's executive producer.[67] The album made it to Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart, and peaked at number 44 during the week of March 11, 2006. AllMusic reviewer Alex Henderson said of the album, "[Pinkett Smith] shows herself to be an expressive, commanding singer" and that "[Wicked Wisdom] shows considerable promise".[68] The band promoted the album in 2006, touring with heavy metal band Sevendust.[69]

Onyx Hotel Tour

Wicked Wisdom landed a slot on Britney Spears' Onyx Hotel Tour in 2004, one of the year's highest-profile tours. The band opened for Spears for eight dates in April and May 2004, during the European leg of the tour.[70]

Ozzfest 2005

In 2005, Sharon Osbourne saw Wicked Wisdom perform at a small nightclub in Los Angeles. She said: "I was blown away. When you see and hear Jada with her band it's apparent that she has nothing but love and respect for this genre of music".[66] In May 2005, organizers announced Wicked Wisdom would perform on the second stage of 2005's Ozzfest.[71] Aware of questions about the band's addition to Ozzfest, Pinkett Smith said, "I'm not here asking for any favors. You've got to show and prove. And not every audience is going to go for it."[72] Wicked Wisdom's guitarist Pocket Honore said while early dates of the tour were rocky, "once word got out that we weren't a joke, people started coming out and by the sixth or seventh gig we were on fire".[65] Pinkett Smith agreed, saying, "After seven dates within the Ozzfest tour, the whole attitude of it started to turn around once the word of mouth started getting out."[69]

Other ventures

Business

After opening her music company 100% Women Productions,[48] Pinkett Smith created her own fashion label, Maja, in 1994. The clothing line features women's T-shirts and dresses embellished with the slogan "Sister Power", sold primarily through small catalogs.[9]

In 2003, Pinkett Smith and Smith helped to create the television series All of Us, which aired on UPN/The CW. Pinkett Smith published her first children's book, Girls Hold Up This World, in 2004. "I wrote the book for Willow and for her friends and for all the little girls in the world who need affirmation about being female in this pretty much masculine world. I really tried to capture different sides of femininity. I want girls in the world to feel powerful, to know they have the power to change the world in any way they wish."[73]

In 2005, Pinkett Smith became one of many celebrities to invest a combined total of US$10 million in Carol's Daughter, a line of beauty products created by Lisa Price.[74] She became a spokesman for the beauty line, and said, "To be a part of another African American woman's dream was just priceless to me."[75]

In 2015, the Smith couple were among the founding investors of an energy storage company.[76][77]

Philanthropy

In 1997, Pinkett Smith was the emcee of the Million Woman March in Philadelphia.[78][79][80]

Together with Will, Pinkett Smith has created the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland, a charity that focuses on youth in urban inner cities and family support. Her aunt, Karen Banfield Evans, is the foundation's executive director. The charity was awarded the David Angell Humanitarian Award by The American Screenwriters Association (ASA) in 2006. The Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation has provided grants to non-profit organizations such as YouthBuild,[81] and Pinkett Smith has made personal donations to organizations such as Capital K-9s.[82]

After meeting Tom Cruise during the filming of Collateral (2004), Pinkett Smith and Will Smith donated $20,000 to the Hollywood Education and Literacy Program (HELP), Scientology's basis for homeschooling.[83][84]

In 2006, Pinkett Smith donated $1 million to her high school alma mater, the Baltimore School for the Arts, and dedicated the new theater to her classmate and close friend Tupac Shakur.[85][86]

When Pinkett Smith's aunt, Karen Banfield Evans, was diagnosed with lupus,[87] the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation, in association with the Lupus Foundation of America and Maybelline, held the first annual "Butterflies Over Hollywood" event on September 29, 2007, at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. The event raised funds for LFA public and professional educational programs.[88] The Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation was presented with an award in 2007 at the 4th Annual Lupus Foundation of America Awards.[89]

In 2012, on behalf of PETA, Pinkett Smith wrote a letter to Baltimore's mayor, asking that the visiting Ringling Brothers Circus "comply with Baltimore's absolute prohibition of the use of devices such as bullhooks" and not harm the elephants.[90] In 2013, she appeared in a video clip for Gucci's "Chime for Change" campaign that aims to raise funds and awareness of women's issues globally.[91]

Personal life

In the early 1990s, Pinkett Smith dated former basketball player Grant Hill while he attended Duke University.[92][93]

Pinkett Smith had a close friendship with rapper Tupac Shakur which was formed when they were both attending the Baltimore School for the Arts.[94] She appeared in his music videos "Keep Ya Head Up" (1993) and "Temptations" (1995).[95][96] She also came up with the concept for his "California Love" (1995) music video and had intended to direct it, but she removed herself from the project.[26] In 1995, she contributed $100,000 towards Shakur's bail as he awaited an appeal on his sexual abuse conviction.[97] Pinkett Smith stated in the 2003 documentary Tupac: Resurrection that he was "one of my best friends. He was like a brother. It was beyond friendship for us. The type of relationship we had, you only get that once in a lifetime."[98]

In 2018, Pinkett Smith said that she had been diagnosed with the autoimmune disease alopecia areata.[99][100][101] Despite having many medical tests, she said she has not been able to find the cause of her alopecia, and that she suspects it might be stress.[99] She shared a video on her Instagram account in December 2021 showing herself with a shaved head, saying; "Now at this point, I can only laugh" (...) "Mama's gonna have to take it down to the scalp so nobody thinks she got brain surgery or something. Me and this alopecia are going to be friends... period!".[102]

Family

 
Pinkett Smith with her husband and children at the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Concert

Pinkett Smith has remained close to her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris,[103] and said, "A mother and daughter's relationship is usually the most honest, and we are so close." She also added: "[My mother] understood what I wanted and never stood in my way."[104] She participated as the maid of honor in Banfield-Norris's 1998 wedding to Paul Jones, a telecommunications executive.[105]

She met Will Smith in 1994 on the set of Smith's television show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, when she auditioned for the role of his character's girlfriend, Lisa Wilkes. She was considered too short and the role went to actress Nia Long. Will and Jada later began dating after he separated from Sheree Fletcher. Prior to this, Will had developed an attraction to Jada, but did not act on it. Jada eventually moved from her hometown of Baltimore to California to be with him.[106] On December 31, 1997, while Jada was three months pregnant,[106] about 100 guests attended their wedding at The Cloisters, near her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland.[107] Regarding her marriage, Jada said that they are "private people" and told one interviewer, "I will throw my career away before I let it break up our marriage.[108] I made it clear to Will. I'd throw it away completely".[109] The couple produce films through their joint production company, Overbrook Entertainment and Westbrook Inc.[110][106]

They have two children, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (born 1998),[107][111] and Willow Camille Reign Smith (born 2000). She is also the stepmother of Trey Smith, her husband's son from a previous marriage.[7][107] Will commented in 2008 on their parenting styles: "We're not strict but we definitely believe it's a very important component for rearing children. It creates safety for them. They understand that they need guidance."[112] The family resides in a 27,000 square foot (2,500 m2) home, on 100 acres (40 ha), in Malibu.[104] In May 2014, Moisés Arias, who was 20 at the time, was photographed shirtless in a bed with then-13-year-old Willow Smith.[113] The photo triggered an investigation into the family by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.[114]

In April 2013, Pinkett Smith caused many to believe she and her husband were in an open marriage after stating in an interview: "I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay'. Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man". However, she denied such, clarifying her statements on Facebook, writing: "Open marriage? The statement I made in regard to, 'Will can do whatever he wants', has illuminated the need to discuss the relationship between trust and love and how they co-exist".[106]

In June 2020, singer and rapper August Alsina—a friend of Pinkett Smith's son Jaden—said that he and Pinkett Smith had been involved in an adulterous affair in 2016, when he was 23 years old and she was 44.[115] He also claimed that the affair happened with Will Smith's permission.[115] A spokesman for Pinkett Smith denied the claims, saying they were "absolutely not true".[115] On July 10, during an episode of Red Table Talk featuring her husband, Pinkett Smith confirmed an "entanglement" with Alsina during their separation, although not with his permission.[116] Pinkett Smith said that Alsina misconstrued it as permission because she and her husband were "separated amicably". She eventually got back with her husband after breaking off the relationship with Alsina and stated she has not spoken to him since.[117]

After Pinkett Smith's use of the word "entanglement" went viral on the Internet, Alsina released a collaboration titled "Entanglements" with rapper Rick Ross on July 19, 2020, singing lines such as "the definition of entanglement is when you get tangled in the sheets" and "you left your man just to fuck with me and break his heart".[118] In 2021, Will Smith stated that Pinkett Smith "never believed in conventional marriage" and that both of them have had sexual relationships outside of their marriage.[119]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1993 Menace II Society Ronnie
1994 The Inkwell Lauren Kelly
Jason's Lyric Lyric
A Low Down Dirty Shame Peaches
1995 Demon Knight Jeryline
1996 The Nutty Professor Carla Purty
If These Walls Could Talk Patti Made-for-television movie
Set It Off Lida "Stony" Newsom
1997 Scream 2 Maureen Evans Cameo
Credited as "Jada Pinkett"
1998 Woo Woo
Blossoms and Veils Raven Short film
Return to Paradise M.J. Major
Welcome to Hollywood Jada Pinkett Smith Cameo
1999 Princess Mononoke Toki Voice
English dub
2000 Bamboozled Sloan Hopkins
2001 Kingdom Come Charisse Slocumb
Ali Sonji Roi
2003 Maniac Magee Amanda Beale Made-for-television movie
The Matrix Reloaded Niobe
The Matrix Revolutions
2004 Collateral Annie Farrell
2005 Madagascar Gloria Voice
A Christmas Caper Uncredited voice
2007 Reign Over Me Janeane Johnson
2008 The Women Alex Fisher
The Human Contract Rita Debuted at Cannes Film Festival in May 2008[46]
Written and directed by Pinkett Smith
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Gloria Voice
2009 Merry Madagascar
2012 Men in Black 3 Party Guest Uncredited
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted Gloria Voice
2013 Madly Madagascar
2014 Penguins of Madagascar Voice cameo
2015 Magic Mike XXL Rome
2016 Bad Moms Stacy
2017 Girls Trip Lisa Cooper
2019 Angel Has Fallen FBI Agent Helen Thompson
2021 The Matrix Resurrections Niobe

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1990 True Colors Beverly Episode: 'Life with Fathers"
Credited as "Jada Pinkett"
1990 Moe's World Natalie Television movie
1991 21 Jump Street Nicole Episode: "Homegirls"
Credited as "Jada Pinkett"
1991 Doogie Howser, M.D. Trish Andrews Episode: "Air Doogie"
Credited as "Jada Pinkett"
1991–1993 A Different World Lena James 46 episodes
2009–2011 Hawthorne Christina Hawthorne Lead role
2014–2017 Gotham Fish Mooney Series regular (season 1)
Special guest star (seasons 2–3)
2017 Carpool Karaoke: The Series Herself Episode: "Queen Latifah & Jada Pinkett Smith"
2018–present Red Table Talk Herself Host and executive producer
2019 Today[120] Herself "Jada Pinkett Smith Opens Up About Red Table Talk And Her Family"
Jimmy Kimmel Live Herself "Jada Pinkett Smith on Aladdin, Vacations with Husband Will & Pornography"
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Herself "Jada Pinkett Smith: Happiness Is About Peace"
CBS This Morning Herself "Jada Pinkett Smith speaks to her 20-year-old self, talks new movie and Red Table Talk"
2022 The Equalizer Jessie "The Worm" Cook[121] Episode: "Legacy"

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2003 Enter the Matrix Niobe Live-action cutscenes, voice, and motion-capture performance

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result Ref
2001 NAACP Image Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Ali Nominated
2003 Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie Actress – Drama/Action Adventure The Matrix Reloaded Nominated
NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture The Matrix Revolutions Nominated
2006 NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Literary Work – Children's "Girls Hold Up This World" Won
2010 NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series Hawthorne Won [122]
Prism Awards Performance in a Drama Episode Nominated
Tony Awards Best Musical Fela! Nominated [123]
2013 Behind the Voice Actors Awards Best Vocal Ensemble in a Feature Film Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted Nominated
2015 NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Gotham Nominated [124]
People's Choice Awards Favorite Actress in a New TV Series Nominated [125][126]
2019 Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Informative Talk Show Red Table Talk Nominated [127]
MTV Movie & TV Awards MTV Trailblazer Award Jada Pinkett Smith Won [128]
NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Host in a Talk, Reality, News/ Information or Variety (Series or Special) Red Table Talk Won [129]
2020 NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Host in a Talk, Reality, News/ Information or Variety (Series or Special) Won [130]
Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Informative Talk Show Nominated [131]
Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host Nominated
2021 NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Host in a Talk, Reality, News/ Information or Variety (Series or Special) Nominated [132]
Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Informative Talk Show Won [133]
Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host Nominated [134]
Outstanding Informative Talk Show Red Table Talk : The Estefans Nominated
Outstanding Daytime Non-fiction Special Red Table Talk: Will Smith’s Red Table Takeover: Resolving Conflict Nominated

See also

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External links

  • Official website
  • Jada Pinkett Smith at IMDb
  • Jada Pinkett Smith at AllMovie
  • Wicked Wisdom

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jada, pinkett, smith, this, article, surname, pinkett, smith, jada, koren, pinkett, smith, née, pinkett, born, september, 1971, american, actress, talk, show, host, host, facebook, watch, talk, show, table, talk, which, received, daytime, emmy, award, time, na. In this article the surname is Pinkett Smith Jada Koren Pinkett Smith ˈ dʒ eɪ d e ˈ p ɪ ŋ k ɪ t nee Pinkett born September 18 1971 1 is an American actress and talk show host She is co host of the Facebook Watch talk show Red Table Talk for which she has received a Daytime Emmy Award Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021 2 Jada Pinkett SmithPinkett Smith at the PaleyFest in 2014BornJada Koren Pinkett 1971 09 18 September 18 1971 age 51 Baltimore Maryland U S EducationBaltimore School for the Arts North Carolina School of the ArtsOccupationsActresstalk show hostsingerbusinesswomanYears active1990 presentOrganizationsWestbrook Inc 100 Woman ProductionsAgentCreative Arts AgencySpouseWill Smith m 1997 wbr ChildrenJaden WillowWebsitejadapinkettsmith wbr comPinkett Smith landed her big break on the sitcom A Different World in 1991 She went on to star in films such as Menace II Society 1993 The Nutty Professor 1996 Set It Off 1996 and Scream 2 1997 before her prominent contributions to The Matrix Reloaded 2003 The Matrix Revolutions 2003 and the animated Madagascar films She returned to television with starring roles on Hawthorne 2009 2011 and Gotham 2014 2017 Her other acting roles include Magic Mike XXL 2015 Bad Moms 2016 Girls Trip 2017 and The Matrix Resurrections 2021 In 2002 Pinkett Smith launched a music career as the lead singer and songwriter for the heavy metal band Wicked Wisdom In 2004 she published a children s book Girls Hold Up This World which landed at number two on The New York Times Best Seller list 3 Along with her husband Will Smith she has a production company and has producing credits in films documentaries and television series In 2010 she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the Broadway musical Fela Contents 1 Early life 2 Film and television career 2 1 Early career 1990 1996 2 2 Rise to prominence 1996 2002 2 3 Commercial success 2003 2017 2 4 Later career 2018 present 3 Musical career 3 1 Onyx Hotel Tour 3 2 Ozzfest 2005 4 Other ventures 4 1 Business 4 2 Philanthropy 5 Personal life 5 1 Family 6 Filmography 6 1 Film 6 2 Television 6 3 Video games 7 Awards and nominations 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksEarly life EditBorn in Baltimore Maryland Jada Koren Pinkett was named after her mother s favorite soap opera actress Jada Rowland 1 She is of Jamaican and Bajan descent on her mother s side and African American descent on her father s side Her parents are Adrienne Banfield Norris the head nurse of a Baltimore inner city clinic and Robsol Pinkett Jr who ran a construction company Banfield Norris became pregnant in high school the couple married but divorced after several months 4 5 Pinkett was raised by her mother and grandmother Marion Martin Banfield a Jamaican born social worker 6 7 My grandmother was a doer who wanted to create a better community and add beauty to the world she said 8 Banfield noticed her granddaughter s passion for the performing arts and enrolled her in piano tap dance and ballet lessons 9 Pinkett attended the Baltimore School for the Arts where she met and became close friends with her classmate rapper Tupac Shakur When Pinkett met Shakur she was a drug dealer 10 Her mother had been a heroin addict 11 12 She majored in dance and theatre and graduated in 1989 13 After graduation she spent a year at the North Carolina School of the Arts 14 Film and television career EditEarly career 1990 1996 Edit Pinkett Smith at the Million Woman March in 1997 Pinkett began her acting career in 1990 when she starred in an episode of True Colors She received guest roles in television shows such as Doogie Howser M D 1991 and 21 Jump Street 1991 and earned a role on comedian Bill Cosby s NBC television sitcom A Different World in 1991 as college freshman Lena James 4 In 1993 Pinkett appeared in her first film Menace II Society She was cast as Ronnie a single mother due to a recommendation from her friend Tupac Shakur who was set to appear in the film before he was fired 15 Pinkett considered dropping out of the film after Shakur s departure but he convinced her to keep the role 15 In 1994 Pinkett acted with Keenen Ivory Wayans in the action and comedy film A Low Down Dirty Shame She described her character Peaches as raw with major attitude 16 and her acting garnered positive reviews The New York Times wrote Ms Pinkett whose performance is as sassy and sizzling as a Salt N Pepa recording walks away with the movie 17 In 1994 she also starred as a title character in Doug McHenry s romantic drama Jason s Lyric opposite Allen Payne In his positive review of the film Roger Ebert wrote Payne has powerful chemistry with the enigmatic teasing tender character played by Pinkett they really seem to like one another which is not a feeling you always pick up in screen romances 18 That year she also had a role in the romantic comedy drama The Inkwell In 1995 Pinkett played a convict on work release in the horror film Demon Knight 19 According to Larenz Tate Pinkett was set to appear in the film Dead Presidents 1995 but she turned down the role of Delilah due to her loyalty to Shakur 20 21 The Hughes brothers directed the film and they had fired Shakur from Menace II Society 22 Pinkett also began directing music videos in 1995 She directed the music video I m Going Down by girl group Y N Vee 23 She also directed the music video How Many Times by Gerald Levert and appeared in the video 24 It was reported that Pinkett would direct the music video for Shakur s song Can U Get Away but another single was released instead 25 Pinkett came up with the concept for his California Love music video which she had intended to direct but she removed herself from the project 26 In 1996 Pinkett directed the music video Keep On Keepin On by MC Lyte Feat Xscape Rise to prominence 1996 2002 Edit Pinkett starred with actor and comedian Eddie Murphy in the 1996 remake of The Nutty Professor portraying the love interest of a kindhearted university professor who is morbidly obese The film was a commercial success earning 25 million in its first weekend in North America and eventually 274 million worldwide 27 28 She also had a lead role in Set It Off 1996 a crime drama about four women who rob banks to escape from poverty opposite Queen Latifah Vivica A Fox and Kimberly Elise Her acting in the film was noted in the San Francisco Chronicle which wrote that she was the one to watch 29 Budgeted at 9 million Set It Off made 41 million globally 30 In 1997 Pinkett had a cameo role in Scream 2 as a college student who is brutally murdered in front of hundreds of filmgoers The film made more than 100 million at the North American box office In 1998 she played a news reporter in the thriller Return to Paradise with Joaquin Phoenix and Vince Vaughn and took on the title role of an extroverted woman alongside Tommy Davidson in the comedy Woo While favorably reviewing her performance in Woo Derek Armstrong of AllMovie wrote that the script was formulaic and not much of a vehicle for its impish starlet 31 She next starred in Spike Lee s film Bamboozled 2000 as a personal assistant to the main character played by Damon Wayans Although the film met with mediocre reviews it won the National Board of Review s Freedom of Expression Award 32 Pinkett Smith c 2001 In 2001 Pinkett Smith portrayed a loud mouthed wife in the moderately successful comedy Kingdom Come with LL Cool J Vivica A Fox Anthony Anderson Toni Braxton and Whoopi Goldberg 33 In the biographical sports drama Ali 2001 she played Sonji Roi the first wife of boxer Muhammad Ali opposite Will Smith While she loved the final product she initially did not think she was the right person for the role I felt like because we were a couple off screen for people to see us together on the screen in a movie like this would take people out of the movie that people would see Will and Jada there they wouldn t see Ali and Sonji 34 Commercial success 2003 2017 Edit Perhaps her best known role to date is the part of human rebel Niobe in the films The Matrix Reloaded 2003 and The Matrix Revolutions 2003 sequels to 1999 s The Matrix and the related video game Enter The Matrix 2003 The character was written specifically with Pinkett Smith in mind 35 Directly after she filmed her scenes for Ali Pinkett Smith flew to Australia to work on the Matrix sequels The sequels earned over 91 million and 48 million during their North American opening weekends respectively 36 37 In the neonoir thriller Collateral 2004 alongside Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise Pinkett Smith played a U S Justice Department prosecutor and the target of a contract killer The film was a critical and commercial success grossing 217 8 million worldwide 38 She voiced Gloria a strong confident but sweet hippopotamus in the computer animated film Madagascar 2005 39 Tom McGrath one of the film s directors said they found all these traits in her voice when they listened to her 40 Despite a mixed response from critics 41 the film was a commercial success earning 532 million worldwide 42 and becoming one of the biggest hits of 2005 43 In 2007 she played the wife of an affluent dentist in the drama Reign Over Me with Adam Sandler Don Cheadle Liv Tyler and Donald Sutherland Entertainment Weekly called the film a strange black and blue therapeutic drama equally mottled with likable good intentions and agitating clumsiness and found Pinkett Smith graceful in it 44 In 2008 Pinkett Smith took on the role of a lesbian author in the all female comedy The Women opposite Meg Ryan Annette Bening Debra Messing and Eva Mendes 45 Though a commercial success The Women was panned by critics with Pinkett Smith earning a nomination for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for her performance Her directorial debut was the drama The Human Contract also 2008 she also wrote and starred as the sister of a successful but unhappy businessman with Paz Vega and Idris Elba It debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008 46 The success of Madagascar led Pinkett Smith to return to the role of Gloria in the 2008 sequel Madagascar Escape 2 Africa which earned US 603 million at the international box office 47 Pinkett Smith was an executive producer and starred as a Chief Nursing Officer in the TNT medical drama Hawthorne which premiered on June 16 2009 48 USA Today remarked Pinkett Smith s Hawthorne is tired in every sense of the word and she s not the only one Every character and event falls under the category of painfully predictable 49 Hawthorne ended on August 16 2011 after three seasons In 2010 she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the Broadway musical Fela 50 While she reprised the voice role of Gloria in Madagascar 3 Europe s Most Wanted 2012 which made over US 746 million 51 she also voiced the character in the NBC Christmas special Merry Madagascar 2009 and the direct to DVD film Madly Madagascar 2013 citation needed Beginning in 2014 Pinkett Smith starred in the first season of the FOX crime drama Gotham as Gotham City gangster Fish Mooney 52 53 She returned recurrently in the second and third seasons of the series In 2015 she starred in the comedy Magic Mike XXL as the manager of a star stripper club opposite Channing Tatum and Joe Manganiello The film made US 122 5 million worldwide 54 She starred with Mila Kunis Kristen Bell and Christina Applegate in the comedy Bad Moms 2016 as the sidekick of a domineering parent teacher association head 55 It received mixed reviews from critics who praised the cast and humor though did not feel it could take full advantage of its assets 56 The film nevertheless earned more than US 183 9 million 57 Pinkett Smith next took on the role of a nurse and uptight mom in the comedy Girls Trip 2017 alongside Regina Hall Queen Latifah and Tiffany Haddish The film was chosen by Time magazine as one of its top ten films of 2017 58 and grossed US 140 million worldwide including over US 100 million domestically the first comedy of 2017 to do so 59 In July 2017 Pinkett Smith appeared at the Essence Festival where on the Empowerment Stage she appeared to talk alongside Queen Latifah 60 Pinkett Smith spoke highly of the cast reflecting their characters in real life stating that they are all women who love other women and work to empower each other a feature that she notes as rare in Hollywood 61 Later career 2018 present Edit Beginning in May 2018 Pinkett Smith along with her mother Adrienne Banfield Norris and her daughter Willow Smith have hosted the Facebook Watch talk show Red Table Talk which focuses on a wide range of topics 62 In a positive review USA Today s Maeve McDermott praised the series for its insightful guests no holds barred topics and Smith s magnetic hosting presence 63 In 2021 Time magazine named Pinkett Smith and her co hosts to its list of the 100 most influential people in the world they were chosen by comedian Tiffany Haddish 2 In 2021 Red Table Talk won a Daytime Emmy Award in the outstanding informative talk show category 64 Musical career EditI listened to all kinds of metal as a kid Metallica Guns N Roses I would always look at Axl Rose and say Why aren t there any chicks out there doing this now I always wanted an opportunity to get out there and rock out Pinkett Smith on why she created Wicked Wisdom 65 Under the name Jada Koren Pinkett Smith formed the metal band Wicked Wisdom in 2002 65 The band consists of Pinkett Smith performing lead vocals Pocket Honore guitar vocals Cameron Wirm Graves guitar keyboard vocals and Rio bass vocals The band is managed by James Lassiter and Miguel Melendez of Overbrook Entertainment a company co founded by Pinkett Smith s husband Will Smith 66 The band s self titled debut album was released on February 21 2006 by Pinkett Smith s production company 100 Womon and Suburban Noize Records Will Smith served as the project s executive producer 67 The album made it to Billboard s Top Heatseekers chart and peaked at number 44 during the week of March 11 2006 AllMusic reviewer Alex Henderson said of the album Pinkett Smith shows herself to be an expressive commanding singer and that Wicked Wisdom shows considerable promise 68 The band promoted the album in 2006 touring with heavy metal band Sevendust 69 Onyx Hotel Tour Edit Wicked Wisdom landed a slot on Britney Spears Onyx Hotel Tour in 2004 one of the year s highest profile tours The band opened for Spears for eight dates in April and May 2004 during the European leg of the tour 70 Ozzfest 2005 Edit In 2005 Sharon Osbourne saw Wicked Wisdom perform at a small nightclub in Los Angeles She said I was blown away When you see and hear Jada with her band it s apparent that she has nothing but love and respect for this genre of music 66 In May 2005 organizers announced Wicked Wisdom would perform on the second stage of 2005 s Ozzfest 71 Aware of questions about the band s addition to Ozzfest Pinkett Smith said I m not here asking for any favors You ve got to show and prove And not every audience is going to go for it 72 Wicked Wisdom s guitarist Pocket Honore said while early dates of the tour were rocky once word got out that we weren t a joke people started coming out and by the sixth or seventh gig we were on fire 65 Pinkett Smith agreed saying After seven dates within the Ozzfest tour the whole attitude of it started to turn around once the word of mouth started getting out 69 Other ventures EditBusiness Edit After opening her music company 100 Women Productions 48 Pinkett Smith created her own fashion label Maja in 1994 The clothing line features women s T shirts and dresses embellished with the slogan Sister Power sold primarily through small catalogs 9 In 2003 Pinkett Smith and Smith helped to create the television series All of Us which aired on UPN The CW Pinkett Smith published her first children s book Girls Hold Up This World in 2004 I wrote the book for Willow and for her friends and for all the little girls in the world who need affirmation about being female in this pretty much masculine world I really tried to capture different sides of femininity I want girls in the world to feel powerful to know they have the power to change the world in any way they wish 73 In 2005 Pinkett Smith became one of many celebrities to invest a combined total of US 10 million in Carol s Daughter a line of beauty products created by Lisa Price 74 She became a spokesman for the beauty line and said To be a part of another African American woman s dream was just priceless to me 75 In 2015 the Smith couple were among the founding investors of an energy storage company 76 77 Philanthropy Edit In 1997 Pinkett Smith was the emcee of the Million Woman March in Philadelphia 78 79 80 Together with Will Pinkett Smith has created the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation in Baltimore Maryland a charity that focuses on youth in urban inner cities and family support Her aunt Karen Banfield Evans is the foundation s executive director The charity was awarded the David Angell Humanitarian Award by The American Screenwriters Association ASA in 2006 The Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation has provided grants to non profit organizations such as YouthBuild 81 and Pinkett Smith has made personal donations to organizations such as Capital K 9s 82 After meeting Tom Cruise during the filming of Collateral 2004 Pinkett Smith and Will Smith donated 20 000 to the Hollywood Education and Literacy Program HELP Scientology s basis for homeschooling 83 84 In 2006 Pinkett Smith donated 1 million to her high school alma mater the Baltimore School for the Arts and dedicated the new theater to her classmate and close friend Tupac Shakur 85 86 When Pinkett Smith s aunt Karen Banfield Evans was diagnosed with lupus 87 the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation in association with the Lupus Foundation of America and Maybelline held the first annual Butterflies Over Hollywood event on September 29 2007 at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles The event raised funds for LFA public and professional educational programs 88 The Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation was presented with an award in 2007 at the 4th Annual Lupus Foundation of America Awards 89 In 2012 on behalf of PETA Pinkett Smith wrote a letter to Baltimore s mayor asking that the visiting Ringling Brothers Circus comply with Baltimore s absolute prohibition of the use of devices such as bullhooks and not harm the elephants 90 In 2013 she appeared in a video clip for Gucci s Chime for Change campaign that aims to raise funds and awareness of women s issues globally 91 Personal life EditIn the early 1990s Pinkett Smith dated former basketball player Grant Hill while he attended Duke University 92 93 Pinkett Smith had a close friendship with rapper Tupac Shakur which was formed when they were both attending the Baltimore School for the Arts 94 She appeared in his music videos Keep Ya Head Up 1993 and Temptations 1995 95 96 She also came up with the concept for his California Love 1995 music video and had intended to direct it but she removed herself from the project 26 In 1995 she contributed 100 000 towards Shakur s bail as he awaited an appeal on his sexual abuse conviction 97 Pinkett Smith stated in the 2003 documentary Tupac Resurrection that he was one of my best friends He was like a brother It was beyond friendship for us The type of relationship we had you only get that once in a lifetime 98 In 2018 Pinkett Smith said that she had been diagnosed with the autoimmune disease alopecia areata 99 100 101 Despite having many medical tests she said she has not been able to find the cause of her alopecia and that she suspects it might be stress 99 She shared a video on her Instagram account in December 2021 showing herself with a shaved head saying Now at this point I can only laugh Mama s gonna have to take it down to the scalp so nobody thinks she got brain surgery or something Me and this alopecia are going to be friends period 102 Family Edit Pinkett Smith with her husband and children at the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Concert Pinkett Smith has remained close to her mother Adrienne Banfield Norris 103 and said A mother and daughter s relationship is usually the most honest and we are so close She also added My mother understood what I wanted and never stood in my way 104 She participated as the maid of honor in Banfield Norris s 1998 wedding to Paul Jones a telecommunications executive 105 She met Will Smith in 1994 on the set of Smith s television show The Fresh Prince of Bel Air when she auditioned for the role of his character s girlfriend Lisa Wilkes She was considered too short and the role went to actress Nia Long Will and Jada later began dating after he separated from Sheree Fletcher Prior to this Will had developed an attraction to Jada but did not act on it Jada eventually moved from her hometown of Baltimore to California to be with him 106 On December 31 1997 while Jada was three months pregnant 106 about 100 guests attended their wedding at The Cloisters near her hometown of Baltimore Maryland 107 Regarding her marriage Jada said that they are private people and told one interviewer I will throw my career away before I let it break up our marriage 108 I made it clear to Will I d throw it away completely 109 The couple produce films through their joint production company Overbrook Entertainment and Westbrook Inc 110 106 They have two children Jaden Christopher Syre Smith born 1998 107 111 and Willow Camille Reign Smith born 2000 She is also the stepmother of Trey Smith her husband s son from a previous marriage 7 107 Will commented in 2008 on their parenting styles We re not strict but we definitely believe it s a very important component for rearing children It creates safety for them They understand that they need guidance 112 The family resides in a 27 000 square foot 2 500 m2 home on 100 acres 40 ha in Malibu 104 In May 2014 Moises Arias who was 20 at the time was photographed shirtless in a bed with then 13 year old Willow Smith 113 The photo triggered an investigation into the family by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services 114 In April 2013 Pinkett Smith caused many to believe she and her husband were in an open marriage after stating in an interview I ve always told Will You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay Because at the end of the day Will is his own man I m here as his partner but he is his own man However she denied such clarifying her statements on Facebook writing Open marriage The statement I made in regard to Will can do whatever he wants has illuminated the need to discuss the relationship between trust and love and how they co exist 106 In June 2020 singer and rapper August Alsina a friend of Pinkett Smith s son Jaden said that he and Pinkett Smith had been involved in an adulterous affair in 2016 when he was 23 years old and she was 44 115 He also claimed that the affair happened with Will Smith s permission 115 A spokesman for Pinkett Smith denied the claims saying they were absolutely not true 115 On July 10 during an episode of Red Table Talk featuring her husband Pinkett Smith confirmed an entanglement with Alsina during their separation although not with his permission 116 Pinkett Smith said that Alsina misconstrued it as permission because she and her husband were separated amicably She eventually got back with her husband after breaking off the relationship with Alsina and stated she has not spoken to him since 117 After Pinkett Smith s use of the word entanglement went viral on the Internet Alsina released a collaboration titled Entanglements with rapper Rick Ross on July 19 2020 singing lines such as the definition of entanglement is when you get tangled in the sheets and you left your man just to fuck with me and break his heart 118 In 2021 Will Smith stated that Pinkett Smith never believed in conventional marriage and that both of them have had sexual relationships outside of their marriage 119 Filmography EditFilm Edit Year Title Role Notes1993 Menace II Society Ronnie1994 The Inkwell Lauren KellyJason s Lyric LyricA Low Down Dirty Shame Peaches1995 Demon Knight Jeryline1996 The Nutty Professor Carla PurtyIf These Walls Could Talk Patti Made for television movieSet It Off Lida Stony Newsom1997 Scream 2 Maureen Evans CameoCredited as Jada Pinkett 1998 Woo WooBlossoms and Veils Raven Short filmReturn to Paradise M J MajorWelcome to Hollywood Jada Pinkett Smith Cameo1999 Princess Mononoke Toki VoiceEnglish dub2000 Bamboozled Sloan Hopkins2001 Kingdom Come Charisse SlocumbAli Sonji Roi2003 Maniac Magee Amanda Beale Made for television movieThe Matrix Reloaded NiobeThe Matrix Revolutions2004 Collateral Annie Farrell2005 Madagascar Gloria VoiceA Christmas Caper Uncredited voice2007 Reign Over Me Janeane Johnson2008 The Women Alex FisherThe Human Contract Rita Debuted at Cannes Film Festival in May 2008 46 Written and directed by Pinkett SmithMadagascar Escape 2 Africa Gloria Voice2009 Merry Madagascar2012 Men in Black 3 Party Guest UncreditedMadagascar 3 Europe s Most Wanted Gloria Voice2013 Madly Madagascar2014 Penguins of Madagascar Voice cameo2015 Magic Mike XXL Rome2016 Bad Moms Stacy2017 Girls Trip Lisa Cooper2019 Angel Has Fallen FBI Agent Helen Thompson2021 The Matrix Resurrections NiobeTelevision Edit Year Title Role Notes1990 True Colors Beverly Episode Life with Fathers Credited as Jada Pinkett 1990 Moe s World Natalie Television movie1991 21 Jump Street Nicole Episode Homegirls Credited as Jada Pinkett 1991 Doogie Howser M D Trish Andrews Episode Air Doogie Credited as Jada Pinkett 1991 1993 A Different World Lena James 46 episodes2009 2011 Hawthorne Christina Hawthorne Lead role2014 2017 Gotham Fish Mooney Series regular season 1 Special guest star seasons 2 3 2017 Carpool Karaoke The Series Herself Episode Queen Latifah amp Jada Pinkett Smith 2018 present Red Table Talk Herself Host and executive producer2019 Today 120 Herself Jada Pinkett Smith Opens Up About Red Table Talk And Her Family Jimmy Kimmel Live Herself Jada Pinkett Smith on Aladdin Vacations with Husband Will amp Pornography The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Herself Jada Pinkett Smith Happiness Is About Peace CBS This Morning Herself Jada Pinkett Smith speaks to her 20 year old self talks new movie and Red Table Talk 2022 The Equalizer Jessie The Worm Cook 121 Episode Legacy Video games Edit Year Title Role Notes2003 Enter the Matrix Niobe Live action cutscenes voice and motion capture performanceAwards and nominations EditYear Award Category Work Result Ref2001 NAACP Image Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Ali Nominated2003 Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie Actress Drama Action Adventure The Matrix Reloaded NominatedNAACP Image Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture The Matrix Revolutions Nominated2006 NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Literary Work Children s Girls Hold Up This World Won2010 NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series Hawthorne Won 122 Prism Awards Performance in a Drama Episode NominatedTony Awards Best Musical Fela Nominated 123 2013 Behind the Voice Actors Awards Best Vocal Ensemble in a Feature Film Madagascar 3 Europe s Most Wanted Nominated2015 NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Gotham Nominated 124 People s Choice Awards Favorite Actress in a New TV Series Nominated 125 126 2019 Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Informative Talk Show Red Table Talk Nominated 127 MTV Movie amp TV Awards MTV Trailblazer Award Jada Pinkett Smith Won 128 NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Host in a Talk Reality News Information or Variety Series or Special Red Table Talk Won 129 2020 NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Host in a Talk Reality News Information or Variety Series or Special Won 130 Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Informative Talk Show Nominated 131 Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host Nominated2021 NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Host in a Talk Reality News Information or Variety Series or Special Nominated 132 Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Informative Talk Show Won 133 Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host Nominated 134 Outstanding Informative Talk Show Red Table Talk The Estefans NominatedOutstanding Daytime Non fiction Special Red Table Talk Will Smith s Red Table Takeover Resolving Conflict NominatedSee also EditWill Smith Chris Rock slapping incidentReferences Edit a b Jada Pinkett Smith Biography TV Guide OpenGate Capital Archived from the original on May 14 2008 Retrieved October 6 2008 a b Haddish Tiffany The 100 Most Influential People of 2021 Adrienne Banfield Norris Willow Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith Time Retrieved April 1 2022 The New York Times gt Books gt Best Seller Lists archive nytimes com Retrieved December 22 2021 a b Jada Pinkett Smith bio Madagascar Escape 2 Africa 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