just picked up his for his role as the dad of tennis icons Venus and Serena Williams in King Richard.
Of course, that isn’t the only reason why the 53-year-old Fresh Prince star is in the headlines – as many are still reeling from the moment he at Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony.
The altercation , and was preceded by a joke about Will’s wife’s shaved head, which is the result of her struggle with alopecia.
Post-ceremony, the Smiths appeared together at the Vanity Fair afterparty, .
But who are Will’s kids, and what are they up to today?
Who are Will Smith’s children?
Trey Smith
Will’s eldest son is 29-year-old Trey Smith, whom he shares with his first wife Sheree Zampino.
Trey – born Willard Carroll Smith III – was born on November 11, 1992. Will and Sheree divorced in 1995.
Aged 5, young Trey popped up in dad’s music video for song Just The Two Of Us, and later appeared in 2003 sitcom All Of Us.
The elder Smith son reportedly works as a DJ these days, and has appeared on several episodes of stepmum Jada Pinkett Smith’s popular Facebook talk show Red Table Talk.
He often refers to Jada as his ‘bonus mom’ in the captions of Instagram posts.
Back in 2018, an emotional Will – after the latter called his dad his best friend during a one-on-one trip to watch F1 racing in Abu Dhabi.
Will added in the caption: ‘We struggled for years after my divorce from his mother. He felt betrayed and abandoned.
‘It is a wild blessing to recover and restore a loving relationship with my beautiful son.’
Jaden Smith
was born on July 8, 1998 as Jaden Christopher Syre Smith.
Now aged 23, Jaden first made waves in Hollywood as an actor when was just eight years old, appearing opposite his dad in the 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness.
He also had starring roles in 2008’s The Day The Earth Stood Still, 2010’s The Karate Kid, and 2013 flick After Earth, in which he appeared alongside his dad once more.
Unfortunately, the latter film didn’t do well at the box office, which dad Will later wrote in his eponymous memoir resulted in ‘vicious’ attacks on his son in the media.
Will penned: ‘Fans and the press were absolutely vicious; they said and printed things about Jaden that I refuse to repeat. Jaden had faithfully done everything that I’d instructed him to do, and I had coached him into the worst public mauling he’d ever experienced.’
The book also touched upon , a legal decision Will wrote that Jaden ultimately decided not to pursue.
Meanwhile, during a break from acting Jaden focused his attention on music instead. He’s released three full albums as a rapper so far: Syre, Erys, and Cool Mix Tape 3.
And he returned to the screen in 2017, on Netflix series The Get Down.
Also, who could ever forget a young Jaden’s rap verse of Justin Bieber’s 2010 song Never Say Never?
Willow Smith
Will’s youngest is , who was born Willow Camille Reign Smith on October 31, 2000.
The now-21-year-old is a singer and rapper with four albums under her belt.
Many will remember Willow’s catchy first single, Whip My Hair, which – and stormed the charts in the US, UK, and beyond.
She was signed to Roc Nation, Jay-Z’s record label, as their youngest artist ever, and toured the world with the song – prompting the youngster to tell dad Will mid-tour that she needed a break, shaving her now-famous hair off to get the point across.
In his memoir, Will : ‘My jaw nearly dislocated, dislodged, and shattered on the kitchen floor.
‘My world-dominating, hair-whipping, future global superstar was totally bald. During the night, Willow had shaved her entire head.
‘Before I could respond, I felt something slowly turning, shifting, until it clicked into place: In a moment of divine connection and revelation, she had reached me. I leaned down, peered deeply into her eyes, and said, ‘I got it. I am sorry. I see you.’
Willow found her way back to music, releasing debut album Ardipithecus in 2015, and sophomore effort The 1st in 2017.
Self-titled third album Willow was released in 2019 – while 2021 brought the pop-punk record Lately I Feel Everything.
Like her brothers, Willow also dabbled in acting as a child, appearing in the 2008 film I Am Legend alongside dad Will.
In the same year, she appeared in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, and voiced Baby Gloria in Madagascar 2.
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