Early life. Willard Carroll Smith II was born on September 25, 1968, in Philadelphia, to Caroline (née Bright), a school board administrator, and Willard Carroll Smith Sr., a US Air Force veteran and refrigeration engineer.
Smith was born in West Philadelphia, the son of Caroline (Bright), a Philadelphia school board administrator, and Willard Carroll Smith, Sr., a refrigeration engineer. He grew up in West Philadelphia's Wynnefield neighborhood, and was raised Baptist.
Will Smith's path to superstardom began in West Philadelphia, where he was raised by his single mother, Caroline Bright. With determination and talent, Smith rose to fame as an actor and rapper, becoming one of the most beloved figures in Hollywood.
She may be married to one of the richest men in showbiz, but Jada has earned herself a pretty impressive fortune during her expansive career as an actress. Some of her biggest roles include The Matrix franchise, The Nutty Professor, the Madagascar films, Bad Moms and Girls Trip.
However, on the financial front, Will Smith eclipses his wife's net worth which is estimated to be around $50 million as of 2021. The disparity is mainly due to Will's longer, more lucrative career in both music and film compared to Jada, who primarily focused on acting.
As of 2023, the Oscar-winning actress has a reported net worth of $90 million, and with thirty years working in Hollywood under her belt, today she can earn up to $10 to $12 million a film.
Smith welcomed his first child, Trey Smith, in 1992 with his first wife, Sheree Zampino. In fact, the actor had met Zampino around the time that he was trying to get his Fresh-Prince of Bel-Air co-star Alfonso Ribeiro to set him up with Pinkett-Smith after meeting her on set when she auditioned for the series.
Early in Will's career, he married his first wife Sheree Zampino and shortly after, they welcomed their son Trey. While Will says that he immediately recognized the profound impact of fatherhood at age 24, he took a step back from his role as a dad when he and Sheree divorced two years later.
Lou is the deadbeat biological father of Will Smith and the ex-husband of Vy. Lou abandoned his family (Will and Viola "Vy" Smith) when Will was five years old and explains his motives for leaving by saying he was scared to be a father and started to feel trapped.
Ahead of his memoir's publication, Will spoke candidly about the loss of his father — including the emotional phone call they shared less than an hour before he died in 2016.
Smith has made a point of sharing tributes to Caroline, whom he affectionally calls "Mom-Mom,' on Instagram in recent years. In 2022, he shared a sweet video of the pair dancing together to Whitney Houston's classic song "I Wanna Dance with Somebody."
Smith also got emotional when reflecting on becoming a father for the first time, at the age of 24. “I think that was my first moment of the real weight of parenting,” he said. “I brought him (Trey) home, and I remember we put him in the bassinet… and it was like stark terror.
Trey Smith was born on November 11, 1992, in Los Angeles, California to Will Smith and Sheree Zampino, who were married from 1992 to 1995. His father went on to marry actress and Red Table Talk host Jada Pinkett Smith in 1997, and shares two more children, Willow and Jaden, with his current wife.
Will is currently 55 years old, while Jada is 52 years old. The duo has been married for nearly three decades since they met on the set of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” They share two kids, Jaden, 25, and Willow, 22, who are both musicians. Will also has a son, Trey, 30, from a previous marriage.
In real life, he's a father to biological offspring Trey, Jaden and Willow but 51-year-old Will Smith is also “grandpa.” Or at least that's how a character in “Bad Boys for Life” refers to the A-lister formerly known as “The Fresh Prince.”
1998. During an interview with Rolling Stone, the Shark Tale actor said the "largest part" of why his first marriage didn't work was because he "didn't trust women" after being cheated on in the past.
She said no, and he said “Cool, you're seeing me now.” Both Will and Jada maintain they began seeing each other after Will and Sheree separated. December 10, 1995: Smith officially divorces his first wife, Sheree Zampino, mother to his oldest son, Trey.
1994. Will and Jada met when she auditioned to play his girlfriend on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She did not get the part, and he was married to Sheree Zampino — with whom he shares son Trey — at the time. “I had a realization I wasn't with the person I was supposed to be with,” he recalled on Red Table Talk in 2018.
Berry, a mom of two, took to Instagram to share photos of her son, Maceo-Robert Martinez, meeting his idol, soccer legend David Beckham. Berry and her 10-year-old son met Beckham Sunday, when his Inter Miami team faced off against the LA Galaxy in Los Angeles, according to the photos.
Speaking with PEOPLE for her October cover story, Jada further detailed the state of her marriage to Will, noting, “We're still figuring it out.” “We've been doing some really heavy-duty work together,” she told PEOPLE. “We just got deep love for each other and we are going to figure out what that looks like for us.”
