Jada Smith Trivia | 40 facts about the actress

Jada Pinkett is an actress and the co-host of the Facebook Watch talk show Red Table Talk, for which she has received a Daytime Emmy Award.

Let’s find out more her!

1. Ironically auditioned for the role of future husband Will Smith’s girlfriend, Lisa (played by Nia Long), on The Fresh Prince of Bell- Air (1990) but was told she was too short.
2. Has been with Will Smith since 1995, two years before their marriage.
3. She attended the Baltimore School for the Arts at the same time as Tupac Shakur, where they became close.
4. They made a video together at the amusement park King’s Dominion, where they lip-synced to Will Smith’s & DJ Jazzy Jeff’s «Parents Just Don’t Understand.» Tupac acts like an MC, and Jada acts like a dancer.
5. Josh Charles was also her classmate in elementary school and BSA.
6. She and husband Will Smith own a house in Howard County, Maryland. Smith often plays basketball with children who attend Homewood High School, a school for troubled children.
7. Five days before shooting Woo (1998), Jada’s close friend, Tupac Shakur, was killed.
8. Has been good friends with Carrie-Anne Moss since the filming of The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).
9. She & Will opened a Planet Hollywood in her hometown, Baltimore on March 1998.
10. Lead singer of the pop/rock band Wicked Wisdom. Wicked Wisdom is well-known for being both mainstream pop and brutal heavy metal.
11. She and her husband, Will Smith, were both cast in DC comics projects in 2014 – Will as “Deadshot” in the film, Suicide Squad (2016) and Jada in the television show, Gotham (2014).
12. Is a huge fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) and Angel (1999) along with husband Will Smith.
13. Is part-owner of the skin-care line Carol’s Daughter.
14. Sent director Wes Craven a set of steak knives after appearing in Craven’s film, Scream 2 (1997).
15. Jada first met lifelong friend and then fledgling rapper Queen Latifah in 1987 when she introduced her as the opening act for hip-hop group Public Enemy at Baltimore’s Palladium club. Jada and Latifah were respectively 16 and 17-years-old at the time.
16. Her father’s family is African-American and her mother’s family is Afro-Caribbean.
17. Her maternal grandfather was from Barbados and her maternal grandmother’s parents were from Jamaica.
18. Attended the North Carolina School Of The Arts for one year but did not graduate because she left for California to pursue acting. She is a honorary Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority member.
19. As a child, she took piano, tap, and ballet classes.
20. Is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated.
21. She and Will Smith were married in Baltimore when he was on location shooting Enemy of the State (1998) for Tony Scott.
22. In May 2018, she revealed on her Facebook talk show, Red Table Talk, that she was diagnosed with Alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease in which hair is lost from some or all areas of the body.
23. In December 2021, she shared a video on her Instagram account saying she had shaved her head due to her Alopecia.
24. Auditioned unsuccessfully for a ‘vocal’ spot in Lion’s King (1994).
25. Is a self-professed comic book geek.
26. Suffers from thalassophobia (fear of sea, boats and sailing) and acrophobia (fear of heights).
27. Has a stepson: Trey Smith (b. November 11, 1992) with husband, Will Smith.
28. She once auditioned for, and landed, the role of Six LeMeure on the series Blossom (1990) but ultimately reneged because, at age 18, she felt she’d be miserable playing a 12-year-old girl. Within two weeks she landed the role of Lena James on A Different World (1987).
29. Her mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones went from being a teenage mom, through years of battling, and eventually kicking, a heroin addiction, to being a successful nurse and finally becoming co-host of Red Table Talk (2018) with her extended family.
30. Despite her fear of heights, Jada volunteered to perform her first skydive over Dubai for husband Will, his only birthday gift request of her for his 50th birthday celebration. Will celebrated his big day by bungee-jumping from a helicopter over the Grand Canyon just prior to Jada’s plunge.
31. Has 2 children: son, Jaden Smith (b. July 8, 1998) & daughter, Willow Smith (b. October 31, 2000) with husband, Will Smith.
32. Received a Tony award nomination in 2010 for Best Musical as part of the producing team of “Fela!”.
33. In 2000, she was voted by the readers of Black Men Magazine as one of the 10 sexiest women of the year.
34. Touring the US with her heavy metal band Wicked Wisdom, promoting their first single “Something Inside of Me”, which they also performed live on Late Show with David Letterman (1993) on Jan 25, 2006. (January 2006)
35. Is passionate about oil painting in her spare time.
36. Is in pre-production for the film version of Sister Souljah’s novel “The Coldest Winter Ever,” where she will serve as executive producer. (May 2005)
37. She and Will Smith were forced to leave their home in California, because a bush fire threatened to destroy it and several other houses in that area. (October 2005)
38. Portrayed by Kat Graham in All Eyez on Me (2017).
39. Was among the guests at Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’s wedding.
40. Counts Girls Trip (2017) co-star MC Lyte as one of her closest friends.