Will Smith Net Worth 2023

Will Smith Net Worth 2023: Willard Carroll Smith Jr. is an American actor, rapper, and film producer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States 25th September 1968(54 years old).  Smith has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards and has won four Grammy Awards. During the late 1980s, he achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name Fresh  Prince.

He was brought up as a Baptist and lived in West Philadelphia’s Wynnefield area. He has two younger siblings, the identical Harry and Ellen, as well as an older sister called Pamela. Caroline, Will Smith’s mother, worked as a school administrator, and Willard Carroll Smith, Sr. had a refrigerator business. Despite coming from a middle-class background, his charismatic nature and exceptional people skills made him the focus of attention everywhere he went. He quickly attained the title of Prince among his family and friends. In Philadelphia, Smith went to a private Catholic primary school called Our Lady of Lourdes. He was 13 when his parents divorced, although it wasn’t until approximately 2000.

Smith attended Overbrook High School. While it has been widely reported that Smith turned down a scholarship to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he never applied to college, because he “wanted to rap”.Smith says he was admitted to a “pre-engineering [summer] program” at MIT for high school students, but he did not attend.

Will Smith Career

Will Smith successfully transitioned from rap music to an acting career. He allied with his 1981-met deejay and schoolmate Jeffrey Townes. Their debut song, “Girls Ain’t Nothing But Trouble,” which was followed by the album Rock the House, was released in 1986 under the name DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. The band’s ground-breaking track “Parents Just Don’t Understand” from 1988 earned them a Grammy Award (the first Grammy ever presented in the rap performance category).

Smith’s first major roles were in the drama Six Degrees of Separation (1993) and the action film Bad Boys (1995) in which he starred opposite Martin Lawrence. The latter film was commercially successful, grossing $141.4 million worldwide. However, critical reception was generally mixed. In 1996, Smith starred as part of an ensemble cast in Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day. The film was a massive blockbuster, becoming the second highest-grossing film in history at the time and establishing Smith as a prime box office draw.

He played Agent J in the popular Men in a Black movie with Tommy Lee Jones in the summer of 1997. With an estimated 54,616,700 tickets sold in the US, Columbia Pictures’ July 2 release of the movie brought in over $589.3 million worldwide against a $90 million budget, making it the third-highest-grossing movie of the year. It garnered favorable reviews, with reviewers appreciating Jones and Smith’s performances as well as the humor in it.

Smith launched his solo music career in the summer of 1997 with the release of “Men in Black,” the movie’s theme song, which topped singles charts in several countries, including the UK. Later, “Men in Black” and the second track “Just Cruisin'” appeared on Smith’s debut solo album Big Willie Style, which peaked at number 10 on the US Billboard 200 and was given a nine-times platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). When it was released in 1998, “Gettin’ Jiggy wit It,” the third single from the album, earned Smith’s first Billboard Hot 100 number one.

In 1998, Smith starred with Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State. The following year he turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix in favor of Wild Wild West (1999). Despite the disappointment of Wild Wild West, Smith said that he has no regrets about his decision, asserting that Keanu Reeves’ performance as Neo was superior to what Smith himself would have achieved, although in interviews after the release of Wild Wild West he stated that he “made a mistake on Wild Wild West. That could have been better.”

The lead single from Smith’s second album, “Wild Wild West,” which featured Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee and peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, was another film theme song. It was rated gold by the RIAA. The in question album, Millennium, received a double platinum certification from the RIAA and peaked at number five on the Billboard 200. The album’s second song, “Will 2K,” peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Smith’s seven music videos to date were collected in a video album that was published before 1999 concluded. This album peaked at number 25 on the UK Music Video Chart. He also appeared on Tatyana Ali, a co-star on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Airtrack,’s “Boy You Knock Me Out,” which peaked at number one on the UK R&B Singles Chart and peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart.

In the 2001 movie Ali, Smith played a heavyweight boxer, Muhammad Ali. He received nominations for both the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama and the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal.

In 2002, following a four-year musical hiatus, Smith returned with his third album Born to Reign, which reached number 13 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the RIAA. The album’s lead single was the theme song from Smith’s film Men in Black II, called “Black Suits Comin’ (Nod Ya Head)”, which reached number three on the UK Singles Chart. Later in the year, Smith’s first compilation album Greatest Hits was released, featuring songs from his three solo albums as well as those produced with DJ Jazzy Jeff.

2003 saw Smith return for Bad Boys II, the sequel to the 1995 film Bad Boys; the film follows detectives Burnett and Lowrey investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Despite receiving generally negative reviews, the film was a box office success, grossing $270 million worldwide. In the following year, he starred in the animated film Shark Tale and the science fiction film I, Robot; both films were box office successes despite mixed reviews.

2005 saw the release of Smith’s most recent album, Lost and Found, which peaked at number six on the Billboard 200. Switch, the album’s lead song debuted in the top ten of both the UK Singles Chart and the Billboard Hot 100. Smith’s attendance at three premieres in 24 hours earned him a spot in the Guinness World Records in 2005.

In the 2006 biographical drama, The Pursuit of Happiness, Smith and his son Jaden portrayed a father and son. Smith plays Chris Gardner in the movie. Gardner appeared on 20/20 when Smith originally developed an interest in producing a movie about him. Smith later grew close to Gardner while filming the movie. Smith’s acting and the movie both won accolades.

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Smith played a con man in the thriller Focus from 2015 and a doctor in the movie Concussion which exposed the chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) pandemic among NFL players. He portrayed Deadshot, an assassin, in the Suicide Squad action movie, and a bereaved father in Collateral Beauty in 2016. He played a police officer in the Netflix action movie Bright the following year, which is set in Los Angeles where both people and fantastical animals live. In the family comedy Aladdin, Smith was then chosen to play the genie (2019). In Gemini Man (2019), he played two roles: a retired assassin and his younger clone, the latter of which was a computer-generated image of Smith when he was in his 20s. Smith’s other credits from 2019 included the animated Spies in Disguise, in which he supplied the voice of a spy who is turned into a pigeon. He then starred in Bad Boys for Life (2020), a sequel to his 1995 breakthrough film. In 2021 Smith took the title role in King Richard, a biopic about the father of tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams.

Smith continued to release albums, Born to Reign (2002) and Lost and Found (2005), although neither of them was as popular as his earlier works. Along with acting in several of the movies he produced in the early 21st century, Smith also co-created and produced the comedy All of Us with his wife, actress Jada Pinkett Smith (2003–07). He served as the anchor of the Earth-focused documentary TV series One Strange Rock in 2018. Will, Smith’s autobiography which he co-wrote with Mark Manson, was published in 2021.

Will Smith’s personal life

Smith married actress Jada Koren Pinkett in 1997. They met when Pinkett auditioned for a role as Smith’s character’s girlfriend in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The pair produce films through their joint production company Overbrook Entertainment and Westbrook Inc. Together they have two children: Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (born 1998), his co-star in The Pursuit of Happyness and After Earth; and Willow Camille Reign Smith (born 2000), who appeared as his daughter in I Am Legend.

Before Jada Pinkett Smith came into the picture, Will Smith was married to Sheree Zampino from 1992 to 1995. Together, Smith and Zampino have a son named Trey, now 28, and Zampino believes that she and Smith were always meant to co-parent and never to parent within a marriage or relationship. The shift from married couple to co-parents “wasn’t difficult,” she said.

Smith and his brother Harry own Treyball Development Inc., a Beverly Hills-based company named after Trey Smith, and his family resides in Los Angeles, California. In 2018, Smith celebrated his 50th birthday by performing a bungee jump from a helicopter in the Grand Canyon. Smith was insured by Lloyd’s of London for $200 million for the jump which raised money for the charity Global Citizen.

Will Smith’s net worth

Will Smith’s net worth is estimated at $350 million, making him one of the wealthiest actors in the world.