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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.
Will Smith
James "Rhodey" Rhodes
for James "Rhodey" Rhodes in Iron Man (2000)
Suggested by coltonhess
Start of a "What if" universe for the mcu that starts in 2000 with all the rights Tony Stark, charismatic billionaire weapons manufacturer and playboy genius, is captured in a war-torn region while demonstrating a new missile system. Forced to build a weapon for his captors, he instead constructs a crude powered armored suit and escapes. Back home he is changed: he shuts down the weapons division of Stark Industries, faces pushback from his longtime partner Obadiah Stane, and begins refining the suit into a high-tech flying weapon of personal accountability. The climax is a confrontation with Stane (in a bigger, bulkier prototype suit) that forces Tony to publicly declare “I am Iron Man.” Post-credits: a one-eyed government operative in a leather coat approaches Tony with an offer involving “a bigger picture.”
