Will Smith
Willard Carroll Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor and rapper. Known for variety of roles, Smith has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award and four Grammy Awards. Smith began his acting career starring as a fictionalized version of himself on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996). He first gained recognition as part of a hip hop duo with DJ Jazzy Jeff, with whom he released five studio albums and the US Billboard Hot 100 top 20 singles "Parents Just Don't Understand", "A Nightmare on My Street", "Summertime", "Ring My Bell", and "Boom! Shake the Room" from 1984 to 1994. He released the solo albums Big Willie Style (1997), Willennium (1999), Born to Reign (2002), and Lost and Found (2005), which contained the US number-one singles "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" and "Wild Wild West". He has received four Grammy Awards for his rap performances. Smith achieved wider fame as a leading man in films such as the action film Bad Boys (1995), its sequels Bad Boys II (2003) and Bad Boys for Life (2020), and the sci-fi comedies Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002), and Men in Black 3 (2012). After starring in the thrillers Independence Day (1996) and Enemy of the State (1998), he received Academy Award for Best Actor nominations for his portrayal as Muhammad Ali in Ali (2001), and as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006). He then starred in a range of commercially successful films, including I, Robot (2004), Shark Tale (2004), Hitch (2005), I Am Legend (2007), Hancock (2008), Seven Pounds (2008), Suicide Squad (2016) and Aladdin (2019). For his portrayal of Richard Williams in the biographical sports drama King Richard (2021), Smith won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor.
171 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 171
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Top Gear
2002
The One Show
2006
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Hot Ones
2015
Great Performances
1971
El hormiguero
2006
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Tony Awards
1956
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Wetten, dass..?
1981
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1990
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
The Oscars
1953
The Reichen Show
2005
Bel-Air
2022
Blossom
1990
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
2024
The Pursuit of Happyness
2006
GMTV
1993
I Am Legend
2007
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
ABC Afterschool Special
1972
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
Aladdin
2019
Independence Day
1996
All of Us
2003
Skavlan
2009
TRL
1998
Men in Black
1997
Kids' Choice Awards
1987
I, Robot
2004
Sarah Kuttner – Die Show
2004
Suicide Squad
2016
The Shop
2018
Bad Boys for Life
2020
Rove
1999
Men in Black 3
2012
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
Men in Black II
2002
Red Table Talk
2018
Bad Boys II
2003
Bad Boys
1995
Enemy of the State
1998
Today
1952
Shark Tale
2004
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
2018
Late Night Berlin
2018
Yo! MTV Raps
1988
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
2018
Domenica In
1976
Gemini Man
2019
Focus
2015
The BRIT Awards
1977
Spies in Disguise
2019
Hancock
2008
American Chopper
2003
This Is Pop
2021
Hitch
2005
King Richard
2021
Pole to Pole with Will Smith
2026
Amend: The Fight for America
2021
Bright
2017
Emancipation
2022
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
2013
The True Story of...
2017
After Earth
2013
Smash Hits Poll Winners Party
1988
Wild Wild West
1999
One Strange Rock
2018
Seven Pounds
2008
Ali
2001
The Magic Hour
1998
Rock Concert
1973
Collateral Beauty
2016
Welcome to Earth
2021
BET Awards
2001
Concussion
2015
The Oprah Conversation
2020
The Legend of Bagger Vance
2000
America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001
Will Smith's Bucket List
2019
The Early Show
1999
Winter's Tale
2014
Jersey Girl
2004
Student of the Year 2
2019
I Am Legend 2
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MADtv
1995
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
This Morning
1988
DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
2016
Quincy
2018
Feeding America Comedy Festival
2020
The Earth Day Special
1990
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Six Degrees of Separation
1993
Made in America
1993
Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration
1990
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
1999
Howard
2018
Where the Day Takes You
1992
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
A GRAMMY Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop
2023
This Joka
2022
Live 8
2005
Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion
1996
Dads
2019
Jackie Chan: Building an Icon
2021
Will Smith Budapest
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David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion
2020
National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony
2016
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
Best Shape of My Life
2021
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
1998
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996
A Man's Story
2011
You're Watching Video Music Box
2021
Teen Choice Awards
1999
Live from Studio Five
2009
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
2012
The Chipmunks Rockin' Through The Decades
1990
Star Wars: Greatest Moments
2015
Club Oscar
2005
The Grammys
1959
Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream
2007
After Earth: A Father's Legacy
2013
It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West'
1999
Wild Wild West: Wardrobes of the West
1999
The Making of Men in Black
1997
Kids' TV: The Surprising Story
2022
MIB ADR
2002
Inside the Golden Statue
1998
Hormigueddon
2020
Torrance Rises
1999
After Earth: 1,000 Years in 300 Seconds
2013
Father and Son: On Screen and Off
2007
El cuarto round
2024
Lily Topples The World
2021
Quincy Jones, Music Man
2025
David Blaine: Ascension
2020
Tina Turner : Celebrate!
1999
Resistor
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Andrea Bocelli - The Celebration：30th Anniversary
2025
Metamorphosis of 'Men in Black'
2000
Fast and Loose
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Will Smith: Live in Concert
2005
Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies
2000
Barry Sonnenfeld's Intergalactic Guide to Comedy
2002
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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Design in Motion: The Look of 'Men in Black II'
2002
Putting the Boom & Bang in 'Bad Boys'
2000
Will Smith: The Prince of Hollywood
2020
The Making of 'Ali'
2001
Roswell Top Secret
1998
One Strange Rock
2018
Bigflo & Oli: Hip Hop Frenzy
2020
Free Child
2020
Chameleon Street: The Black Film They Could Not Sell
1991
Jon Bellion | Behind the Scenes of 'Glory Sound Prep'
2019
Wild Wild West: Good Guys Gadgets
1999
Blind Ref
2013
Supermax
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