Will Smith a.k.a The Fresh Prince

Born in Philadelphia on September 25, 1968, Will Smith began his career as a rapper a.k.a The Fresh Prince with friend Jeff Townes a.k.a. DJ Jazzy Jeff.

The teen duo would go on to produce two platinum albums - with such megahits as Girls Ain't Nothin' But Trouble, Summertime, Parents Just Don't Understand, and Gettin' Jiggy Wit It.

They also happened to distinguish themseles as the first recipients ever to win a Grammy Award for rap.

Intelligent and charismatic, Smith caught the attention of television producers who cast him in a starring role in the sitcom series “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” in 1990, an instant hit that ran for six years.

Meanwhile, Smith was also expanding his acting career in film, with his first screen appearance in Where the Day Takes You in 1992, followed by Made in America in 1993. That same year, it was his starring role in Six Degrees Of Separation that secured his reputation as a serious actor.

Two years later, Smith first major commercial success was in the action movie, Bad Boys and the following year he achieved superstar status in the sci-fi hit, Independence Day.

Smith's career continued to skyrocket with appearances opposite Tommy Lee Jones in the Men in Black sci-fi comedy films, and alongside Gene Hackman in the thriller, Enemy of the State.

He later won an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in the title role in Ali, a much-anticipated biopic about boxing great Muhammad Ali.

In 2005, Smith could be seen in another big budget sci-fi role in I, Robot and that same year was the voice of "Oscar", the little fish who dreams big in the animated Shark Tale.

In 2006, the actor won for Favorite Male Action Movie Star at the 2005 People's Choice Awards for his performance in the sci-fi thriller I, Robot.

In 2007, He was nominated Best Actor at the Golden Globe Awards for his serious acting turn in "The Pursuit of Happyness" and, for the same performance, won a nod at the Oscars. In 2007, another serious performance came in the futuristic thriller, I Am Legend, followed by an offbeat comedy in which Smith plays a down-on-his-luck super hero in Hancock.

Late in 2008, the actor performed to less- than-glowing reviews in the Hollywood drama, "Seven Pounds."

Off-screen, Smith is married to actress Jada Pinkett Smith. Together they have a son, Jaden (his co-star in "The Pursuit of Happyness") and daughter, Willow. Smith also has a son, Willard "Trey" Smith III, from a previous marriage to actress Sharee Zampino.

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TV Series Actress: Victoria Pratt

Victoria grew up in a small town in northern Ontario, Canada called Chesley. From an early age Victoria decided she was going to change all that and put Chesley on the map. Being a tomboy she dreamt of becoming a star the only way she knew how, through sports.

This fair-haired actress Victoria Pratt was set on quite a different career path before becoming interested in acting. She attended York University in Toronto, where she earned a degree in Kinesiology, and she went on to work in the University's Human Performance Lab, testing athletes from teams like the Toronto Maple Leafs and the San Jose Sharks. She was even offered a scholarship for the Physiotherapy master's program at the University of Toronto, but so she turned it down. She co-authored a book on fitness with one of her University professors, and worked as a professional fitness model, which is how she met Robert Kennedy, the publisher of MuscleMag. He suggested that Pratt enroll in acting classes, and soon after taking his advice, the model turned actress scored a role on the sci-fi tv series Cleopatra 2525 as Rose, otherwise known as "Sarge." She stuck with science fiction, later scoring roles on the series Mutant X and Day Break, and the female lead, opposite Rick Schroder, in the TV adaptation Journey to the Center of the Earth in 2008.

Victoria has been in talks with Fireworks Entertainment and Tribune Entertainment about their new Marvel TV series Mutant X. Both co-producing companies are very interested in Victoria for a series lead part called Shalimar Fox. In fact they have written the role with Vicky in mind. The upside is that the show has been green lit for two seasons without a pilot. There are only two catches. There is not a script yet to read and Victoria must test for the part and the testing is scheduled at the very end of pilot season. What to do? It's not really a bird in the hand, its just feathers.

Mutant X has great ratings and consequently more and more magazines are calling to book pictorials and cover shoots with Victoria. She is a woman who was meant to share her life with us, by being in front of the camera.

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Jerry O'Connell: Child Star Actors TV Series

A veteran of the stage and screen from an early age, actor Jerry O’Connell had his first career breakthrough at 11 years old when he co-starred alongside other soon-to-be stars like River Phoenix and Corey Feldman in the coming of age drama, “Stand By Me (1986)”. In his Junior year, Jerry auditioned for two TV pilots, "Sliders" and "Party of Five." He was offered the role of Quinn Mallory in the TV series "Sliders" which ran for three seasons on Fox and two seasons on the Sci Fi Channel. He served as producer during his fourth and final season with the show, and is credited with writing and directing several episodes.

Sliders series was produced by Tracy Torme and Robert Weiss. It was premiered on March 1995 and lasted on February 2000. For the first three years of Sliders were shown by the FOX Network, the television series was an intelligent, very original and fascinating example of a perfect sci-fi tv series. It has five seasons with eighty-eight episodes. The acting was mostly above the average and the writings were what really made the show.

The main characters are played by:

• Jerry O'Connell
• Sabrina Lloyd
• Cleavant Derricks
• John Rhys-Davies
• Kari Wührer
• Charlie O'Connell
• Robert Floyd
• Tembi Locke

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Summary For Sliders

Quinn Mallory played by Jerry O'Connell, while working on an anti-gravity machine, accidentally creates a portal to a parallel universe. Eventually, his friends and an unwilling participant accidentally get stuck traveling among parallel worlds, trying to survive, and learning that sliding can lead to fatal results. Meanwhile, among many changes in their group, they try to rescue the multiverse from the Kromagg Dynasty.

While trying to develop an anti-gravity device, physics genius Quinn Mallory instead creates a device that opens portals to alternative realities. After an accident leaves them lost, Quinn Mallory and his companions: his physics professor, Professor Maximillian Arturo played by John Rhys-Davies, his work colleague and potential love, Wade Wells played by Sabrina Lloyd , and a washed-up soul singer, Rembrandt Brown played by Cleavant Derricks , "slide" from reality to reality in search of home.

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