Jaden followed up his big screen debut with a small role in the remake of 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' (2010), before taking on his first starring role, alongside martial arts legend Jackie Chan, in a big budget remake of 'The Karate Kid' (2010).

The film was a minor box office success, earning Will Smith his second Best Actor nomination at that year's Academy Awards, and critics were overall impressed with the younger Smith's nascent efforts at acting. When he was just eight years old, Jaden made his acting debut alongside his father in the inspirational drama 'The Pursuit of Happyness' (2006). He attended New Village Leadership Academy, but had difficulties making friends, which lead to him being homeschooled by his parents. Jaden has spoken at length about how being the offspring of two famous parents kept him from having a normal childhood. Born on Jin Malibu, CA, Jaden was the son of Hollywood superstars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, the middle child of the couple's three children (Will had an older son, Trey, born in 1992, from a previous relationship, and Jaden's sister, Willow, was born in 2000).

Jaden Smith was an American actor and musician who rose to prominence through a famous family, but still managed to cut his own, highly idiosyncratic, sometimes odd, but always compelling path to stardom on his own terms.