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My Take
Jada Pinkett Smith has spent three decades refusing to be just one thing, and that is exactly what I find compelling about her. The acting résumé alone would satisfy most careers — Ali, Collateral, the Matrix films, scene-stealing voice work in Madagascar — but her most radical act may be Red Table Talk, where she turned family vulnerability into a new kind of television and won a Daytime Emmy for it. Plenty of stars curate an image; she dismantles hers in public, repeatedly, on purpose. I do not always agree with her choices, but I never doubt her nerve, and the Time 100 nod in 2021 felt entirely logical to me.
Overview
Jada Koren Pinkett Smith (née Pinkett; born September 18, 1971) 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. Pinkett Smith landed her big break on the sitcom A Different World in 1991.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jada Pinkett Smith
- Name (Japanese)
- ジェイダ・ピンケット・スミス
- Reading
- じぇいだ・ぴんけっと・すみす
- Born
- September 18, 1971 (age 54)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Boar
- Origin
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 153 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / singer / voice actor / television actor / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Awards & achievements
- David Angell Humanitarian Award
- 2010 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series
- 2006 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children
- 2021 Time 100
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Enter the Matrix | — | |
| Notable work | Madagascar | — | |
| Notable work | Gotham | — | |
| Notable work | Collateral | — | |
| Notable work | The Matrix Revolutions | — | |
| Notable work | Ali | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.