Jada Pinkett Smith Mom, Age, Height, Husband, Kids, Family

Jada Pinkett Smith, an American icon blessed with myriad gifts and dynamic talents. Best known as a dancer, singer-songwriter and actress, she is widely revered as the wife of famous black American actor and comedian Will Smith. Their family is one of the most admired in the entertainment industry, as many wonder how they managed to do it for so long. In addition to her ability to maintain her marriage to Will Smith, Jada has also raised some very successful children who are ahead of their peers in the entertainment industry.

Jada Pinkett Smith Bio (Age)

Mrs. Smith was born Jada Koren Pinkett on September 18, 1971, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, she is named after her mother’s favorite soap opera actress, Jada Rowland. Growing up in Baltimore, Jada attended the School of the Arts in Baltimore where she majored in dance and acting. She graduated in 1989. She then went on to study at the North Carolina School of the Arts, before moving to Los Angeles for acting.

Jada started acting in 1990 when she starred in an episode of True Colours, before appearing in a television pilot for a drama titled Moe’s World which never aired. After that, the starlet received guest roles on television shows such as Doogie Howser, MD (1991) and 21 Jump Street (1991) and had a role in the NBC television comedy about comedian Bill Cosby, A Different World in 1991 as college freshman Lena James.

In 1993 she landed her first film role – Society Menace II – and in 1994 she starred with Keenen Ivory Wayans in the action film, A Dirty Shame. Following a role in Demon Knight (1995), Jada co-starred with actor and comedian Eddie Murphy in the 1996 science fiction film, The Nutty Professor. Next, she had a role in Turning It Off (1996) with Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise.

In 1997, she had a role in Scream 2 as Maureen Evans, a college student who is brutally murdered in front of hundreds of onlookers. In 2000, Pinkett starred in the Spike Lee film Bamboo (2000), as Sloan Hopkins. The film won the National Board of Review’s Freedom of Speech Award.

In 2002, Jada Smith formed metal band WickedWisdom under the stage name Jada Koren with Pocket Honore, Cameron Graves and Rio as band members. She then worked with the human rebels Niobé in the films, The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003), following 1999’s The Matrix. The character was said to have been written specifically for Pinkett Smith.

Jada was the voice of Gloria the hippopotamus in the popular 2005 animated film, Madagascar and its sequels. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) and Madagascar III: Europe’s Most Wanted (2012).

In 2008, she showed more of her creative skills and talent as a director with her independent drama film debut. The Human Contract. The film – which she also wrote and starred in – starred Paz Vega and Idris Elba, and debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May of that year.

In January 2009, Jada Pinkett Smith began working on TNT’s medical drama Hawthorne, in which she served as an executive producer and a main cast member. She later received nominations for the NAACP Image Award and the Prism Award following her performance on the TV show.

In the spring of 2012, Jada launched a web series called Red Talk featuring her daughter and her mother, to encourage dialogue within families. In 2013, the film actress then appeared in a music video for Gucci’s “Chime for Change” campaign to raise funds and awareness for women’s issues globally.

In 2014, the veteran actress starred in the first season of Fox’s crime drama Gotham as Gotham City mobster Fish Mooney. Two years later, in 2016, she reprized her role as Mooney in many episodes of the second and third seasons of Gotham. The same year, the singer-turned-actress had a supporting role as Stacy in the comedy film Bad Moms. She then starred as Lisa Cooper in the 2017 comedy film Girls Trip

As of 2018, the movie star and wife of Will Smith hosts a Facebook Watch talk show, Red Talk which is based on his 2012 web series. The show which features his mother and daughter covers a wide range of subjects.

mom, family

Jada Pinkett Smith is a Black American of Jamaican descent on her mother’s side and African American on her father’s side. His parents are Adrienne Banfield-Jones and Robsol Pinkett, Jr.

When Banfield-Jones became pregnant in high school, the couple married; but divorced after several months.

Banfield-Jones raised Pinkett with the help of his own mother, Marion Martin Banfield; who noticed her granddaughter’s passion for the performing arts and enrolled her in piano, tap and ballet lessons. Jada is not an only child; she has a brother called Caleeb Pinkett, an actor like her.

husband and children

Jada Pinkett Smith’s husband is the popularHollywood actor and musician, Will Smith. The couple met in 1994 when Jada auditioned for the role of the character’s girlfriend, Lisa Wilkes in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Although Jada was deemed too short for the role (the role given to Nia Long), a true love story ensued and the couple became friends in 1995. They married two years later, on the 31 December 1997, at the Cloisters Mansion in Baltimore, with a hundred guests. They have since become one of Hollywood’s hottest couples.

Jada has two children with Will Smith; JadenSmith (son: born in 1998) and Willow Smith (daughter: born in 2000). Their children have also found their way into stardom with Jaden becoming a rapper, singer-songwriter and actor, while Willow is a dancer, singer and actress. Pinkett Smith is also stepmother to Trey Smith, Will’s son from a previous marriage to Sheree Zampino.

the size

Jada Pinkett Smith is not very tall, she is 4 years feet 11 inches (1.52m) tall and she weighs 49 kg. Her disadvantaged height is more evident than that of her husband Will, who is 6ft 2in.