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https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/jada_pinkett_smith_worthyThe Brown Lecture series is pleased to welcome Jada Pinkett Smith to the Pratt.
Jada Pinkett Smith's new unconventional memoir Worthy is an invitation to join her adventure in search of love and self-worth. During this special event, Jada will recount her story in an intimate conversation with readers. She will share her journey from a challenging childhood in Baltimore to her controversial life in Hollywood, where she navigates complicated, false narratives about her marriage, her family, and herself. Through it all, Jada has learned to embrace her own worth fully and inspires us to do the same.
About the Author:
Jada Pinkett Smith is an actor, producer, musician, host, author and advocate whose career has spanned over 30 years. Raised in Baltimore by her mother, Pinkett Smith attended the Baltimore School for the Arts where she majored in dance and theater. She continued her studies at the North Carolina School of the Arts before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. In 1987, she landed her breakthrough role as Lena James on the groundbreaking NBC series, A Different World. Her acting career continued to evolve when in 1993 she made it to the big screen in her first feature film, Menace II Society, which took her from Hollywood across the globe to the Cannes Film Festival.
Pinkett Smith had officially become a global star garnering roles in films such as The Nutty Professor, Set It Off, Scream 2, Ali, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix Resurrections, Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, and Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted and comedies such as Bad Moms and Girls Trip, to name a few. At the same time, Pinkett Smith also lends her talents behind the camera producing projects including The Secret Life of Bees starring Queen Latifah and Dakota Fanning, the Tony Award winning Broadway musical Fela! and executive producing King Richard, The Karate Kid, the documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, the CBS syndicated talk show The Queen Latifah Show, Red Table Talk: The Estefans as well as Queen Cleopatra and Queen Njinga for Netflix.
In 2018, Pinkett Smith added a new element to her multi-hyphenate talents, one of host, on the Emmy award-winning talk show titled Red Table Talk. On the series, Jada, alongside her daughter, Willow Smith and mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, take a multi-generational approach to discussions that speak to social and cultural issues, which have encouraged open discussions and dialogue among people of all ages.
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The Brown Lecture Series is supported by a generous grant from the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Foundation.
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