Will Smith

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Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, film producer and pop rapper. He has enjoyed success in music, television and film. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor on the planet. Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won multiple Grammy Awards.

In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show ran for nearly six years (1990–1996) on NBC and has been syndicated consistently on various networks since then. In the mid-1990s, Smith transitioned from television to film, and ultimately starred in numerous blockbuster films that received broad box office success. In fact, he is the only actor in history to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office as well as being the only actor to have eight consecutive films in which he starred open at the #1 spot in the domestic box office tally.

Fourteen of the 19 fiction films he has acted in have accumulated worldwide gross earnings of over $100 million, and 4 of them took in over $500 million in global box office receipts. His most financially successful films have been Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Independence Day, Men in Black, Men in Black II, I, Robot, The Pursuit of Happyness, I Am Legend, Hancock, Wild Wild West, Enemy of the State, Shark Tale, Hitch and Seven Pounds. He also earned critical praise for his performances in Six Degrees of Separation, Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness, receiving Best Actor Oscar nominations for the latter two.

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Movie		Character	Year
	Made in America	Tea Cake	1993
	Bad Boys	Det. Mike Lowrey	1995
	Independence Day	Captain Steven Hiller	1996
	Men in Black	James Edwards / Agent J	1997
	Enemy of the State	Robert Clayton Dean	1998
	Wild Wild West	Capt. James West	1999
	The Legend of Bagger Vance	Bagger Vance	2000
	Ali	Cassius Clay	2001
	Men in Black II	Agent Jay	2002
	Bad Boys II	Detective Mike Lowrey	2003
	Jersey Girl	Himself	2004
	I, Robot	Del Spooner	2004
	Shark Tale	Oscar (voice)	2004
	Hitch	Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens	2005
	Live 8	Himself	2005
	The Pursuit of Happyness	Chris Gardner	2006
	I Am Legend	Robert Neville	2007
	Hancock	John Hancock	2008
	Seven Pounds	Ben	2008
	Men in Black 3	Agent J	2012
	After Earth	Jack	2013
	Bad Boys 3	Detective Mike Lowrey	2015