The Big Picture: Will Smith Career & Biographical Notes: Met wife Jada Pinkett when she tried out for a part on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Turned down scholarship to MIT Turned down role of Muhammad Ali eight times before receiving a call from the former boxer himself Recently took DJ Jazzy Jeff off speed dial

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Will Smith Trivia Quizzes
at HowWellDoYouKnow.com:

• 1/21/11-1/27/11
• 10/14/11-10/20/11
• 5/27/11-6/2/11
• 5/6/11-5/12/11
• 8/19/11-8/25/11
• Actors and Their Roles II
• Bad Boys
• Enemy of the State
• Hitch
• I Am Legend
• Independence Day
• Men in Black
• Six Degrees of Separation

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Upcoming Movies: Release Date Film No release date The Mark

Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
Seven Pounds	12/19/08				43.69	Info
Hancock	7/2/08				222.63	Info
I Am Legend	12/14/07				249.46	Info
The Pursuit of Happyness	12/15/06		2852	26.54	162.59	Info
Hitch	2/11/05	PG-13	3575	43.14	177.58	Info
Shark Tale	10/1/04	PG	4016	47.60	160.76	Info
I, Robot	7/16/04	PG-13	3420	52.18	144.80	Info
Jersey Girl	3/26/04	PG-13	1520	8.32	25.27	Info
Bad Boys II	7/18/03	R	3186	46.52	137.26	Info
Men in Black II	7/3/02	PG-13	3557	52.15	192.40	Info
Ali	12/25/01	R	2446	14.71	58.18	Info

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Awards:

2006
The Pursuit of Happyness

• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Screen Actors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Actor - Drama, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Broadcast Film Critics Association
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Chicago Film Critics

2001
Ali

• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Academy Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Actor, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Actor - Drama, Golden Globes

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