by Willard Carroll (Will) Smith the Second (English: Willard Carroll “Will” Smith II; born September 25, 1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American actor, director, and hip-hop performer. September 25, 1968, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American actor, director, and hip-hop singer.
He is the recipient of an Academy Award, a BAFTA, a U.S. Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as two Grammy Awards. In 2008, Will Smith topped Forbes’ list of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors, earning $80 million for the year. Smith became the first actor in Hollywood history whose eight consecutive films grossed more than $100 million each at the box office.
For his role as Richard Williams[edit] In the biographical sports drama King Richard (2021), he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. At the 2022 ceremony, shortly before winning, Smith slapped host Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith. The scandalous event received widespread media coverage and criticism of Will’s act, leading to his departure from the Academy along with a ban from attending all of their events for ten years.
