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Born in Philadelphia in 1968, Smith began his entertainment career as part of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, transferring his Fresh Prince alter ego in 1990 to a sitcom that seemed to run forever on NBC and BBC2. He became a movie star with Bad Boys (1995) and the mega-hits Independence Day and Men In Black. After achieving fame as an actor he resumed his music career with a popular brand of commercial hip-hop, seemingly in a bid to take over the world (he even tried to make the year 2000 known as the "Willennium"). He flopped by his standards in Wild Wild West and The Legend Of Bagger Vance before landing the title role in Michael Mann's immense Muhammad Ali biopic.
