Jaden Smith’s Black & White Photo Shoot
Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (born July 8, 1998) is an American child actor, rapper, songwriter, dancer, and the son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. He is the elder brother of singer Willow Smith. His breakthrough role was in the 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness, and he has also starred in the remakes of The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Karate Kid.
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[hide]* 1 Career
* 2 Personal life
* 3 Discography
* 4 Filmography
* 5 Awards and nominations
* 6 References
* 7 External links
CareerJaden Smith made his film debut in the 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness as Christopher, the son of Will Smith's character, Chris Gardner.[3] For his role, Smith won the award for the Best Breakthrough Performance at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards. At the 79th Academy Awards, Smith presented the award for the Best Animated Short and the Best Live Action Short, along with acting nominee Abigail Breslin. Smith next appeared as Jacob in the 2008 Scott Derrickson science fiction film, The Day the Earth Stood Still, a remake of the 1951 classic of the same name
In 2010, along with Jackie Chan, Smith starred in The Karate Kid, a remake of the 1984 film.Smith rapped alongside Canadian singer Justin Bieber in the song "Never Say Never" He will also be featured in the new film Amulet. His character will be called Navin, which is supposed to be aired sometime in 2012.
Personal life
Smith was born in Malibu, California, to Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. He is the half-brother of Trey Smith. Smith, along with his sister Willow and with his elder brother Trey, are youth ambassadors for Project Zambia in conjunction with the Hasbro corporation-which helps children orphaned by AIDS in Africa.Along with his younger sister, he was homeschooled, and also attends the New Village Leadership Academy – which was co-founded by his parents in the Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas, California.Smith is African-American, and has more distant Portuguese-Jewish, West Indian, and Creole ancestry from his mother's side.
With Jaden Smith's new film "The Karate Kid" hitting theaters on June 11th, and Justin Bieber being nominated for Best New Artist at the BET Awards, it seems apropos that these two teenage stars would team up in the recording studio.
Bieber and Smith are featured on the lead single off the soundtrack to the film "The Karate Kid." Entitled "Never Say Never," the song lends itself to the theme of perseverance that permeates throughout the upcoming movie.
Will Smith's son Jaden stars in a remake of the popular 1984 film of the same name. The original film starred Ralph Macchio as Daniel Larusso and Pat Morita played the sage karate teacher in Mr. Miyagi. The latter role now rests in the hands of Jackie Chan in the remake.
Since the new film was announced, fans of the original have not had nice things to say about the Jaden Smith vehicle. Some continue to sound off about Hollywood's inability to come up with fresh ideas, while others simply don't believe that Will Smith's son is capable of pulling off the role.
Looking for the Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith on Never Say Never Video? Well a lot of people are in search of the motivational song from the Karate Kid movie starring Jaden Smith. Remember the kid that was with Will Smith in this movie about the rubic cube. Now we are seeing him in his very own movie, Check out how the Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith Collaboration video went out. We have it right below. Justin Bieber ’s Never Say Never Video will be surely loved by all his fans at the same time we get to meet a new face, Jaden Smith.
