he’s been labeled the most powerful
actor on the planet welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be taking
a look at the career of a list actor
Will Smith do you ever have a normal day
yeah once who’s a Thursday
born Willard Christopher Smith jr. on
September 25th 1968 in West Philadelphia
his early aspirations did not include
attending college instead he developed
an early love of rap before becoming the
MC of a hip hop duo soon after NBC hired
him to create and star in a sitcom which
would later become a television
phenomenon called The Fresh Prince of
bel-air the role of a sassy street smart
kid coping with life and one of Los
Angeles’s richest areas helped him find
the legs he needed to market himself as
a movie actor he then appeared in the
Bleak and melodramatic film where the
day takes you as a crippled homeless
beggar shortly afterward he was given
the chance to play the friend of Whoopi
Goldberg’s on-screen daughter in the
comedy made in America okay no that’s
fine that’s fine okay you can go and
plot your fun bags any way you please
however in 1993 critics finally took
notice of him in the lead role of a
manipulative impostor in the
oscar-nominated film six degrees of
separation I pick a name you tell me
anything about them where they live
secrets everything and very name
you get a piece of my clothes pulling
into bigger box office fair Smith then
starred as a narcotics detective
opposite fellow comedian Martin Lawrence
in the big-budget action thriller bad
boys I’m gonna reach for my badge okay
bitch
topping this success Smith then played
the part of a Marine Corps captain in
Roland Emmerich’s alien disaster movie
Independence Day continuing his ride to
the top of Hollywood’s a-list
he then dazzled audiences by starring in
the sci-fi hit men in black and the
conspiracy thriller enemy of the state
miraculously his career was unaffected
by his ill-fated decision to turn down
the role of neo in the matrix in favor
of starring in the 1999 summer stinker
wild wild west pressing on Smith became
a mystical caddy in The Legend of Bagger
Vance before starring in the biopic
Halle replicating Muhammad Ali’s
character traits Smith secured himself
an Oscar nomination for Best Actor Smith
then returned to co-star in both the men
and black sequel and bad boys 2 while
both were moderate successes
neither matched 2004’s film adaptation
of I Robot I think you murdered him
because he was teaching you to simulate
emotions and things got out of control
next he lent his voice to the animated
feature shark tail offered his services
as a dating doctor in the romantic
comedy hitch and starred in the American
biographical drama The Pursuit of
Happyness in 2007
Will Smith found himself alone with his
dog in a post-apocalyptic future trying
to undo a viral plague in his
unprecedented worldwide success I am
Legend this was a triumph he quickly
repeated with his offbeat drunken
superhero flick Hancock and in 2008 he
set out to change the lives of seven
people in seven pounds of all the talent
on the red carpet few can claim the same
level of rapid success as this rapper
turned Hollywood a-lister and over the
years he has continued to create music
and even sit in the producer chair such
as his involvement in 2010’s the Karate
Kid starring his own son Jaden Smith
continuing to thrill audiences as only
he can will
myth is set to reprise his role in the
upcoming third entry in the Men in Black
franchise
actor on the planet welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be taking
a look at the career of a list actor
Will Smith do you ever have a normal day
yeah once who’s a Thursday
born Willard Christopher Smith jr. on
September 25th 1968 in West Philadelphia
his early aspirations did not include
attending college instead he developed
an early love of rap before becoming the
MC of a hip hop duo soon after NBC hired
him to create and star in a sitcom which
would later become a television
phenomenon called The Fresh Prince of
bel-air the role of a sassy street smart
kid coping with life and one of Los
Angeles’s richest areas helped him find
the legs he needed to market himself as
a movie actor he then appeared in the
Bleak and melodramatic film where the
day takes you as a crippled homeless
beggar shortly afterward he was given
the chance to play the friend of Whoopi
Goldberg’s on-screen daughter in the
comedy made in America okay no that’s
fine that’s fine okay you can go and
plot your fun bags any way you please
however in 1993 critics finally took
notice of him in the lead role of a
manipulative impostor in the
oscar-nominated film six degrees of
separation I pick a name you tell me
anything about them where they live
secrets everything and very name
you get a piece of my clothes pulling
into bigger box office fair Smith then
starred as a narcotics detective
opposite fellow comedian Martin Lawrence
in the big-budget action thriller bad
boys I’m gonna reach for my badge okay
bitch
topping this success Smith then played
the part of a Marine Corps captain in
Roland Emmerich’s alien disaster movie
Independence Day continuing his ride to
the top of Hollywood’s a-list
he then dazzled audiences by starring in
the sci-fi hit men in black and the
conspiracy thriller enemy of the state
miraculously his career was unaffected
by his ill-fated decision to turn down
the role of neo in the matrix in favor
of starring in the 1999 summer stinker
wild wild west pressing on Smith became
a mystical caddy in The Legend of Bagger
Vance before starring in the biopic
Halle replicating Muhammad Ali’s
character traits Smith secured himself
an Oscar nomination for Best Actor Smith
then returned to co-star in both the men
and black sequel and bad boys 2 while
both were moderate successes
neither matched 2004’s film adaptation
of I Robot I think you murdered him
because he was teaching you to simulate
emotions and things got out of control
next he lent his voice to the animated
feature shark tail offered his services
as a dating doctor in the romantic
comedy hitch and starred in the American
biographical drama The Pursuit of
Happyness in 2007
Will Smith found himself alone with his
dog in a post-apocalyptic future trying
to undo a viral plague in his
unprecedented worldwide success I am
Legend this was a triumph he quickly
repeated with his offbeat drunken
superhero flick Hancock and in 2008 he
set out to change the lives of seven
people in seven pounds of all the talent
on the red carpet few can claim the same
level of rapid success as this rapper
turned Hollywood a-lister and over the
years he has continued to create music
and even sit in the producer chair such
as his involvement in 2010’s the Karate
Kid starring his own son Jaden Smith
continuing to thrill audiences as only
he can will
myth is set to reprise his role in the
upcoming third entry in the Men in Black
franchise
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