EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning actress, writer, producer, and director Jada Pinkett Smith has signed with Independent Artist Group across the board.
She joins a slew of fellow powerhouse women on IAG‘s roster, including Taraji P. Henson, Regina Hall, Lindsay Lohan, Sharon Stone, and Mary J Blige.
Pinkett Smith is set to star next in the upcoming sequel Girls Trip 2, which will again be directed by Malcolm D Lee, and starring opposite Hall, Queen Latifah, and Tiffany Haddish. All four stars return to their original roles from the first film, Girls Trip, released in 2017. The sequel will go into production at the end of 2026.
Additionally, she has played prominent roles in feature films, including Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, and Matrix Resurrections, Michael Mann’s Collateral, opposite Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx, The Nutty Professor opposite Eddy Murphy, Set It Off with Queen Latifah, and Menace II Society, from first-time directors the Hughes Brothers.
On the TV front, Pinkett Smith is currently working with Lee’s Blackmaled Productions in packaging the series The Big O, which she co-wrote, will direct, and executive produce with Lee. She will next reprise the role of Lena James that she originally played in A Different World in the show’s sequel series from Netflix. All 10 episodes of the new series will drop on September 24. Her prior credits include Fox’s Gotham, CBS’ The Equilizer, and the lead role in the TNT medical drama Hawthorne.
In 2018, Pinkett Smith executive produced the Facebook Watch chat series Red Table Talk, speaking on a panel alongside daughter Willow Smith and mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris, sharing points of view from different generations. The topics discussed included motherhood, addiction, mental illness, and domestic abuse. The core trio hosted celebrity guests across the show’s 5 seasons, like Toni Braxton, Leah Remini, and Pinkett Smith’s husband, Will Smith. She also executive produced the talk show’s spinoff series Red Table Talk: The Estefans, led by Gloria Estefan.
As an executive producer, Pinkett Smith has also been behind produced projects such as 2010’s The Karate Kid, Free Angela, All Political Prisoners, and The Queen Latifah Show.
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