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Willard Carroll "Will" Smith Jr. (English: Willard Carroll "Will" Smith Jr., September 25, 1968 -) is an American actor, film producer, and hip-hop singer. Will Smith has made remarkable achievements in the music, television and film industries. He has won 4 Grammy Awards, 1 British Academy Film Award, 1 Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor, 1 Golden Globe Award and 1 Academy Award. His representative works include "Jedi Men" (1995), "ID4 Star Terminator" (1996), "MIB Star Wars" (1997), "Will Smith: The King of Storm" (2001), "Mechanical Enemy" "(2004), "The Pursuit of Happiness" (2006), "I Am Legend" (2007), "Concussive Effect" (2015), "Suicide Squad" (2016) and "King Richard" (2021), etc. Among them, "Will Smith: The King", "The Pursuit of Happiness" and "Richard" earned him three Oscar nominations for Best Actor. In the end, he successfully won the Academy Award for the first time in 2022 with "Richard". At the same time, Will Smith was also rated as the world's most profitable movie star by Forbes. As of 2014, he has starred in seventeen roles in his twenty-four films, with cumulative global box office revenue exceeding $3.1 billion.

Category
Musicians
Nationality
United States
Born
1968-09-25
Wikidata
Q40096
Occupations television actormovie actoractorfilm directorsingerrapperfilm producercharacter actormusic producercomposerdirectorvoice actorsongwritersinger-songwriterexecutive producerwriterphilanthropistentrepreneurmerchanttelevision producerproducermusician
Aliases Will SmithWillard Smithwill smithWill Smithwill smithWill SmithWay SmithSmith

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