If Will Smith is not the most famous actor on the planet, he's in the top five. He's also one of the best-paid, pulling salaries estimated at $20 million
per movie.
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an actor and rapper. West
Philadelphia born and raised,
on the playground is where he spent most of his
days, chillin' out, maxin' relaxin' all cool, until Smith first entered the public eye as part of "DJ Jazzy Jeff and the The Fresh Prince", a lighthearted hip-hop duo know for such songs as "Parents Just Don't Understand" and "Summertime". He really came to fame with the NBC
Sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air before moving into what has become a very successful acting career, including two
Academy Award nominations.
His
Uncle Tomfoolery days are
pretty much gone, with Smith playing semi-serious or serious roles most of the time now, and his comedic acting not being race-based. (It also helps that he is the undisputed lead in any movie he's in — one of the few black actors who regularly does this.)
In any given movie, expect a
Shirtless Scene and expect him as well to say "
AW HELL NAW!" at some point.
The 44th President of the United States wouldn't mind being portrayed by him in a movie.
His most famous roles… well,
the list is sort of legendary.
◊ Want proof?
Just have a look at his IMDB profile. Add to this, even his stinkers tend to suck in tons of money. The failure of
Wild Wild West prompted Smith to observe: "That's how big I am. I
bomb over $100 million."
Not to be confused with legendary tough-guy actor
William Smith. Or Will Smith of Whiskey Media's "Tested" site (as much as they like to joke he's the same person).
Filmography
Discography
With DJ Jazzy Jeff- Rock the House (1987)
- He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper (1988)
- And in This Corner... (1989)
- Homebase (1991)
- Code Red (1993)
Solo- Big Willie Style (1997)
- Willennium (1999)
- Born to Reign (2002)
- Lost and Found (2005)
- TBA (2013)
Associated Tropes
- Action Hero: Has played several of them in his career, including:
- Actor Allusion: "You don't get it, Will. Parents just don't understand" had this on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
- Action Survivor:Dean in Enemy of the State.
- Anti-Hero: Hancock.
- Badass Baritone
- Belly Dancer: In Wild Wild West.
- Biopic: Portrayed Muhammed Ali in Ali and portrayed Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness. Has a latent wish to portray Barack Obama.
- Black and Nerdy: Those Beast Wars action figures he showed off in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? Those were his personal toys.
- Black Viking: Jim West as a U.S. Army Captain in 1869.
- The Casanova: Will in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the eponymous Hitch and Mike Lowry in Bad Boys.
- Catch Phrase: "Aw, hell naw!", usually uttered in a This Is Gonna Suck moment.
- Darker and Edgier: A lot of his more recent roles have been quite somber.
- Discussed Trope: In "Just the Two Of Us"
- Deadpan Snarker: A lot.
- Good Father: In The Pursuit of Happyness as Chris Gardner.
- Also, in real life. Will and family were in Beijing for The Karate Kid, but Trey had to stay in California for school. Will flew out to be with him for all of his football games.
- I Am Not Leonard Nimoy: Admit it, it's much easier to think of his character as "Will Smith".
- Turned out he was straight out invoking this with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He choose to go by his actual name so that he would never be "associated" with the character's name.
- Jerkass: Hancock.
- Just for Pun: "The new millennium — excuse me, Willennium."
- Ladykiller In Love: Hitch.
- Mr. Fanservice: Aforementioned shirtless scenes!
- Nice Guy: Known as one of the nicest, friendliest actors in Hollywood.
- One Head Taller: Than a lot of his co-stars, especially Alfonso Ribeiro.
- Soul Brotha: Agent J in Men In Black, especially the second one.
- Self-Deprecation: Most of his humor is this.
- Shout Out: He got one from Eminem. Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell records / Well, I do / So fuck him and fuck you too! Ironically, Eminem and Dr. Dre appeared on the Wild Wild West soundtrack.
- Star Making Role: "Now this is the story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down, and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there; I'll tell you how I became the Prince of a town Called Bel Air."
- The Cover Changes The Meaning: Will turned "Just the Two of Us", Bill Withers' song about a man's love for his woman, into a song about a man's love for his son.
- Theme Naming: The aforementioned Trey is Will's son from his previous marriage - his two children with Jada are named Willow and Jaden.
- Tom Hanks Syndrome: Started off as a comical coming actor now he is becoming more of a drama actor taking on more serious roles.
- Uncle Tom Foolery: Started his career like this especially as Will in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air also as Agent J in the first Men In Black kind of fit this type of character and also when he voiced Oscar the fish in Shark Tale the animated movie fits this type of characterization .
- Verbal Tic: "Ha-ha!", 'WOOO!", Whaaat whaaat", and "Uuhhh" (that last one was actually a song title on Willenium).
- Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: Sometime comedic sci-fi actor, some serious actor, and some sitcom actor, sometime singer/rapper, sometime producer (This Means War).
◊ Want proof? Just have a look at his IMDB profile
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