Will Smith
Birth Name: Willard Carroll Smith, Jr.
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date of Birth: September 25, 1968
Ethnicity: African-American
Will Smith, also known as The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, rapper, songwriter, and producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for King Richard (2021). He has starred on the show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and in the films Where the Day Takes You, Made in America (1993), Six Degrees of Separation, Bad Boys, and its sequels; Independence Day, Men in Black, and its sequels; Enemy of the State, Wild Wild West, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Ali, I, Robot; Shark Tale, Hitch, The Pursuit of Happyness, I Am Legend, Hancock, Seven Pounds, After Earth, Winter’s Tale, Focus (2015), Concussion, Suicide Squad (2016), Collateral Beauty, Bright, Aladdin (2019), Gemini Man, Spies in Disguise, and Emancipation. He co-created the show All of Us, which he also wrote for, and has hosted the shows One Strange Rock, Amend: The Fight for America, and Welcome to Earth. He was part of hip hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, with DJ Jazzy Jeff, with whom he released the songs “Parents Just Don’t Understand,” “A Nightmare on My Street,” “Summertime,” “Ring My Bell,” and “Boom! Shake the Room.” He later had solo hits “Gettin’ Jiggy wit It” and “Wild Wild West.”
Will is the son of Caroline (Bright), a school board administrator, and Willard Carroll Smith, a refrigeration engineer, who was in the Air Force. His parents were/are both African-American. He was raised in Wynnefield, Philadelphia. Will is married to actress and musician Jada Pinkett Smith. He has a son, actor and disc jockey Trey Smith, with his former wife, actress and fashion designer Sheree Fletcher; and two children, actors and singers Jaden Smith and Willow Smith, with Jada.
Will’s paternal grandfather was Wilmon Lee Smith (the son of John Edward Smith and Mariah B. Holley). George was born in North Carolina. John was the son of Miles A. Smith and Margaret Ann Johnson. Mariah was the daughter of Gregory Holley and Mary Ellen Woodhouse.
Will’s paternal grandmother was Ellen Frances Washington (the daughter of Thomas Holcomb Washington and Conolia Lottie “Estelle” Lee). Ellen was born in Virginia. Thomas was the son of William Washington and Mary Frances Scott. Conolia was the daughter of George Washington Lee and Ellen Frances Gannaway.
Will’s maternal grandmother is named Helen.
Sources: Obituary of Will’s father – http://www.legacy.com
Genealogies of Will Smith (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
https://www.wikitree.com
http://www.legacy.com/ns/willard-smith-obituary/182405835
Will Smith looks Griffe (60-80% SSA & 20-40% European) he can pass in some Latin American nations like Dominican Republic, since he belongs to the Mulatto Spectrum.
Going by Surreal below, you could say the avg black American could fit in the DR. You guys crack me up with this stuff like he could fit in. It wouldn’t be very hard to fit in the DR, you have Black to White to Asians there. I’ve seen Dominicans that are just as dark as any African
* According to Ancestry.com, the average African American is 65 percent sub-Saharan African, 29 percent European and 2 percent Native American.
* According to 23andme.com, the average African American is 75 percent sub-Saharan African, 22 percent European and only 0.6 percent Native American.
* According to Family Tree DNA.com, the average African American is 72.95 percent sub-Saharan African, 22.83 percent European and 1.7 percent Native American.
* According to National Geographic’s Genographic Project, the average African American is 80 percent sub-Saharan African, 19 percent European and 1 percent Native American.
* According to AfricanDNA, the average African American is 79 percent sub-Saharan African, 19 percent European and 2 percent Native American.
It’s funny how the DNA results vary a lot. African-Americans in the South (generally speaking) tend to be more black, at least from the results I’ve seen.
Will Smith looks like 70-75% SSA.
Correction; Alfonso Ribeiro is Trinidadian. Check on his page.
Im black and have the same skin tone