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Willard Carroll Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor and rapper. Known for variety of roles, Smith has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award and four Grammy Awards. Smith began his acting career starring as a fictionalized version of himself on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996). He first gained recognition as part of a hip hop duo with DJ Jazzy Jeff, with whom he released five studio albums and the US Billboard Hot 100 top 20 singles "Parents Just Don't Understand", "A Nightmare on My Street", "Summertime", "Ring My Bell", and "Boom! Shake the Room" from 1984 to 1994. He released the solo albums Big Willie Style (1997), Willennium (1999), Born to Reign (2002), and Lost and Found (2005), which contained the US number-one singles "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" and "Wild Wild West". He has received four Grammy Awards for his rap performances. Smith achieved wider fame as a leading man in films such as the action film Bad Boys (1995), its sequels Bad Boys II (2003) and Bad Boys for Life (2020), and the sci-fi comedies Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002), and Men in Black 3 (2012). After starring in the thrillers Independence Day (1996) and Enemy of the State (1998), he received Academy Award for Best Actor nominations for his portrayal as Muhammad Ali in Ali (2001), and as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006). He then starred in a range of commercially successful films, including I, Robot (2004), Shark Tale (2004), Hitch (2005), I Am Legend (2007), Hancock (2008), Seven Pounds (2008), Suicide Squad (2016) and Aladdin (2019). For his portrayal of Richard Williams in the biographical sports drama King Richard (2021), Smith won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor.
Season 1 — "No Rain" New Canaan City hasn't had a real rainstorm in nearly three years. Meteorologists call it a climate anomaly. Mayor Victor Bahl calls it an opportunity — water scarcity has made his family's infrastructure holdings worth billions. Only Eli Stone, 40s, a weathered, hawk-faced former civil rights lawyer turned street minister, insists it is something else: a reckoning. When he publicly declares before news cameras that "not a drop falls on this city until this house of corruption is torn down," he becomes overnight mockery — and overnight threat. The Bahls, led by the iron-willed Queen Isabeau Bahl, begin a systematic campaign to erase him. Season 2 — "The Prophets of Aharon" A forced showdown at the city's great civic arena — the Mount Karmel Stadium — between Eli and 450 of Isabeau's most powerful spiritual and political allies. A public contest of legitimacy. The fire that follows changes everything. But victory unmoors Eli in ways defeat never could. He flees into the desert outside the city, alone, suicidal, and utterly spent. Season 3 — "Still Small Voice" Eli's restoration in the wilderness. A mysterious figure — only ever called The Quiet One — feeds him, tends to him, and speaks to him in a voice that is barely above a whisper and yet fills the space entirely. Eli is given a commission he doesn't want and sent back to the city with new names on his lips: enemies to face and a successor to find. Season 4 — "The Vineyard" The Bahls' most brutal act yet — the judicial murder of an innocent man, Nathan Benet, for a plot of land Isabeau covets. Eli confronts Victor directly. The city begins to crack from within. Season 5 — "Ascending" Eli's final days. He moves through the city for the last time, anointing his successor Elias-Two (called simply Two), and walking toward something no camera can capture and no witness can fully explain. The rain finally comes.
