Lesson 26
Starting again
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Translation
Will Smith, American singer and actor, was born in 1968. His mother worked in a school and his father was an engineer. When Will was a teenager, his father and mother separated from one another.
Will started his professional career with singing and in the year 1988 he won a Grammy award, but two years later, because of tax issues, he had almost become bankrupt.
Subsequently, he played in many films and became very famous with the television series ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’. One of his most famous films is ‘Men in Black’. In this film, Will was co-star to Tommy Lee Jones. According to rumours, he may, in the future, play the role of the President of America, Barak Obama.
Will Smith has three children and is very much a family man. His first son, Trey, is an actor, and his second son, Jaden, and his daughter, Willow, are also singers now. Jaden acted with him in the films ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’ and ‘After Earth’.
Alongside acting and singing, Will Smith is also a film producer and is now very wealthy and helps many schools and charitible and cultural centres.