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Character Bio
JADA PINKETT SMITH was most recently seen in her Image Award-nominated role as Sonji in the Academy Award®-nominated Ali, starring Will Smith. She also recently starred opposite LL Cool J, Whoopi Goldberg and Vivica A. Fox in Kingdom Come. Additional credits include Spike Lee’s Bamboozled for which she received an Image Award nomination, the title role for director Daisy Von Scherler Meyer’s film Woo co-starring Tommy Davidson, the teen thriller Scream 2 opposite Neve Campbell, and had a cameo role as the young journalist in the critically acclaimed film A Return To Paradise starring Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche and Joaquin Phoenix.
Among her additional film credits are: The Nutty Professor opposite Eddie Murphy; Set It Off opposite Vivica A. Fox and Queen Latifah; Demon Night, director Ernest Dickerson’s big screen adaptation of the popular HBO series Tales From The Crypt; Keenen Ivory Wayans’ A Low Down Dirty Shame; Jason’s Lyric and The Inkwell. Pinkett Smith made her film debut in 1993 in Menace II Society, directed by Allen and Albert Hughes.
A native of Maryland, Pinkett Smith studied dance and acting at the Baltimore School of Arts and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Her big break came when she landed a role on the long-running NBC series A Different World. Off screen, Pinkett Smith is busy with her production company 100% WOMON, and is producing a project titled The Coldest Winter Ever along with Sista Souljah and James Lassiter for HBO.
Filmography (23)
Madagascar (2005) (filming) (voice) .... Gloria the Hippo
Matrix Revolutions, The (2003) (post-production) .... Niobe
Enter the Matrix (2003) (VG) (voice) .... Niobe
Matrix Reloaded, The (2003) .... Niobe
... aka Matrix Reloaded: The IMAX Experience, The (2003) (USA: IMAX version)
Maniac Magee (2003) (TV) .... Narrator
Ali (2001) .... Sonji
Kingdom Come (2001/I) .... Charisse Slocumb
Bamboozled (2000) (as Jada Pinkett-Smith) .... Sloan Hopkins
Return to Paradise (1998) .... M.J. Major
... aka All for One (1998) (USA: alternative title)
Woo (1998) .... Woo
Blossoms and Veils (1997) .... Mary
Scream 2 (1997) (as Jada Pinkett) .... Maureen Evans
Mononoke-hime (1997) (voice) .... Toki
... aka Princess Mononoke (1999) (USA: US version)
Set It Off (1996) (as Jada Pinkett) .... Lida 'Stony' Newsom
If These Walls Could Talk (1996) (TV) (as Jada Pinkett) .... Patti (segment "1996")
Nutty Professor, The (1996) (as Jada Pinkett) .... Professor Carla Purty
Demon Knight (1995) (as Jada Pinkett) .... Jeryline
... aka Demon Keeper (1995)
... aka Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (1995) (USA: complete title)
Low Down Dirty Shame, A (1994) (as Jada Pinkett) .... Peaches Jordan
... aka Mister Cool (1994)
Jason's Lyric (1994) (as Jada Pinkett) .... Lyric
Inkwell, The (1994) (as Jada Pinkett) .... Lauren Kelly
... aka No Ordinary Summer (1994)
Menace II Society (1993) (as Jada Pinkett) .... Ronnie
"Different World, A" (1987) TV Series (as Jada Pinkett) .... Lena James (1991-1993)
Moe's World (1990) (as Jada Pinkett)
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