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Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress, businesswoman, talk show host and singer. She is co-host of the Facebook Watch talk show Red Table Talk, for which she has won a Daytime Emmy Award. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021.
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Born 18 September 1971 · Q228787
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so that's what I'm really playing with right now. And I love the juxtaposition of going from beauty to rough, the balance of both.
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“For every woman it's important that we recognize that we have the right to figure out what works for us personally. We don't have to do what everyone else is doing. If we are good, our family is going to be good.”
“so that's what I'm really playing with right now. And I love the juxtaposition of going from beauty to rough, the balance of both.”
“You cannot make a cake with all sugar. In one lifetime, we've lived about 20...If I had to say what kind of art piece our union is, I would say it is a tapestry.”
“I think everybody's life is their own work of art and then we have many pieces within it. I have a lot of ideas around marriage and I think it can be one of the most powerful dynamics.”
“if we so CHOOSE to bond with someone from this space … we will erect monumental love and give birth to treasures.”
“We mere mortal women are worthy simply because we exist!,”
“If you really want to know, I'm thankful for the Hollywood scrutiny, that that's my problem. There are mothers out there losing their sons, their husbands, their daughters. I'm blessed. So scrutinize me. I'll take that any day over what the majority of my people are dealing with on a daily basis. I dare not complain.”
“I've always believed a woman's superpower is how deep she can love, you know? And one of the things growing up in Baltimore, I grew up around a lot of Black women that didn't have, necessarily, resources to give, right? But they had their strength and they had their love to offer.”
“The ego will never fail to strangle the love out of one's heart if we allow it to take center stage in our relationships. Transferring our trust to our hearts from our egos is a painful process in learning HOW to love. BUT… through it all… when we finally get to the place where we can give and receive love in its most pure state… ego free… it is only ever… beauty.”
“When you've walked through the darkness of your own heart and mind ... there is no shadow you fear.”
“I really thought happiness had a lot to do with pleasure, and I realized that happiness is about peace.”
DigitEye India rated the claim “Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are reportedly getting a divorce.” The claim is false. No credible evidence supports an impending or filed divorce as of April 2026. The couple has been living separately since 2016 but have not filed for divorce legally..
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Several videos that surfaced in 2024 accurately reported that Willow Smith and Jaden Smith revealed their parents had sold them to music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs.” Unfounded.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph authentically shows Tupac Shakur posing next to Jada Pinkett Smith in high school.” True.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Video Does Show Jada Pinkett Smith Promoting Health Spending Card” Phishing Ruse.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A YouTube video posted on Oct. 16, 2023, accurately reported that Willow Smith "bashed" her mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, for "humiliating" her father, Will Smith.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “A YouTube video posted on Oct. 14, 2023, accurately reported that actor Will Smith had filed for divorce from his wife, fellow actor Jada Pinkett Smith, after she had admitted she loved the late rapper Tupac Shakur more.” Unfounded (retired).
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Video shows Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith advertising “$5,600 health spending cards.”” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “An online video accurately reported that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith had a "sickening role" in benefitting from the August 2023 Maui wildfires.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Disney cast actor Jada Pinkett Smith to portray Rapunzel in a live-action version of "Tangled."” Labeled Satire.
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“A man can CHOOSE to belong to someone. And if he does...he is considered noble. A woman is told she MUST belong to someone or...she is not worthy.”
Full Fact rated the claim “Chris Rock has issued a statement in which he said he crossed a line at the Oscars and apologises to Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.” This statement is not real..
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Published video “Smith Family viewing party at the oscars”.
Published video “Storytime! Hair in Hollywood ! ✨Crown Act✨ Be proud of your crown ❣️”.
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Published video “You never really know a person until you meet them on the battlefield ! | by Jada Pinkett Smith”.
Awarded Time 100 (2021).
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Published video “Skincare - The Avocado, Olive Oil and Honey Mask + Saran Wrap”.
Published video “My Foot Care Routine”.
Published video “HOT OIL TREATMENT ROUTINE”.
Will Smith stated that Pinkett Smith "never believed in conventional marriage" and that both of them have had sexual relationships outside of their marriage
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“It's more of a life partnership… I don't own him. He doesn't own me. He has to be his own person first, and vice versa… Love is freedom.”
“never believed in conventional marriage”
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Red Table Talk won a Daytime Emmy Award in the outstanding informative talk show category
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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
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Published video “Jada Pinkett's skincare routine”.
Published video “How do i know when i love someone? I Jada Pinkett Smith”.
Published video “Jada Pinkett Smith about Forgiveness and learning how to love...”.
“You gotta trust who you're with, and at the end of the day, I'm not here to be anybody's watcher. I'm not his watcher. He's a grown man. I trust that the man that Will is is a man of integrity. HE's got all the freedom in the world, and as long as Will can look at himself in the mirror and be OK, I'm good.”
Through which she has produced various media
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Westbrook Entertainment was acquired by Mark Gillespie's Three Six Zero, diversifying that talent management company
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Pinkett Smith revealed that she had been diagnosed with the autoimmune disease alopecia areata
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have purchased the BET channel.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith donated $150,000 to a "black Muslim" who called for the murder of all whites.” Mixture.
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Starred in the comedy Magic Mike XXL, as the manager of a star stripper club, opposite Channing Tatum and Joe Manganiello
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The Smith couple were among the founding investors of an energy storage company
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Pinkett Smith starred in the first season of the FOX crime drama Gotham, as Gotham City gangster Fish Mooney
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Appeared in a video clip for Gucci's "Chime for Change" campaign that aims to raise funds and awareness of women's issues globally
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“s mayor, asking that the visiting Ringling Brothers Circus”
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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
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Awarded NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for Hawthorne (2010).
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Earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the Broadway musical Fela
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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
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On their parenting styles: "We're not strict but we definitely believe it's a very important component for rearing children
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Played the wife of an affluent dentist in the drama Reign Over Me, with Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland
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At the 4th Annual Lupus Foundation of America Awards
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Awarded NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children (2006).
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By Pinkett Smith's production company 100% Womon and Suburban Noize Records
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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
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Published a children's book, Girls Hold Up This World, which landed at number two on The New York Times Best Seller list
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Sharon Osbourne saw Wicked Wisdom perform at a small nightclub in Los Angeles
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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
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Pinkett Smith and Smith helped to create the television series All of Us, which aired on UPN/The CW
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“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.”
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Pinkett Smith portrayed a loud-mouthed wife in the moderately successful comedy Kingdom Come, with LL Cool J, Vivica A
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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
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While Jada was three months pregnant, about 100 guests attended their wedding at The Cloisters, near her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland
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Pinkett had a cameo role in Scream 2 as a college student who is brutally murdered in front of hundreds of filmgoers
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Pinkett Smith was the emcee of the Million Woman March in Philadelphia
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Pinkett played a convict on work release in the horror film Demon Knight
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Contributed $100,000 towards Shakur's bail as he awaited an appeal on his sexual abuse conviction
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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
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Pinkett acted with Keenen Ivory Wayans in the action and comedy film A Low Down Dirty Shame
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Also starred as a title character in Doug McHenry's romantic drama Jason's Lyric, opposite Allen Payne
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Pinkett appeared in her first film, Menace II Society
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When she starred in an episode of True Colors
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Born 1971-09-18.
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