Jaden Smith

CTL-E-5815 · Person · other · 1998–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07074 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5815.

Jaden Smith, born Jaden Christopher Syre Smith on 8 July 1998 in Malibu, California, is an American actor, rapper and singer, the son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. He made his film debut at age eight opposite his father in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), winning the MTV Movie Award for breakthrough performance, and starred in the remakes The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) and The Karate Kid (2010), the latter alongside Jackie Chan. His feature on Justin Bieber's "Never Say Never" (2010), recorded for The Karate Kid, reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified five-times platinum by the RIAA. He starred again with his father in After Earth (2013) and led the Netflix series The Get Down (2016). As a recording artist he released the studio albums Syre (2017), Erys (2019) and CTV3: Cool Tape Vol. 3 (2020), each entering the Top 40 of the Billboard 200, and he was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year as a featured artist on Bieber's Justice (2022). In September 2025 he was appointed Christian Louboutin's first men's creative director.

The record

• Also known as: Jaden Christopher Syre Smith

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 8; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Jaden Smith entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5815 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 717 (Movie Actors list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American performer. Vital status: LIVING — interviewed in October 2026 about his first year as Christian Louboutin's men's creative director (People). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): "Never Say Never" reached the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 and is RIAA 5× platinum; Syre (2017), Erys (2019) and CTV3 (2020) each entered the Billboard 200 Top 40 — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5815-jaden-smith.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )

Relationships

• Will Smith — child of
  Jaden Smith is the son of Will Smith (CTL-E-1837) and Jada Pinkett Smith; he made his film debut opposite his father in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006).

Sources

• People, "Jaden Smith Shares Rare Insight on Role at Christian Louboutin" (October 2026) — appointed Christian Louboutin's first men's creative director in September 2025; son of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith; one-year interview on the role; vital-status evidence — https://people.com/jaden-smith-rare-comments-christian-louboutin-mens-creative-director-role-12173192 (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Jaden Smith" — born Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, 8 July 1998, Malibu; film debut in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006); The Karate Kid (2010); "Never Say Never" Top 10 and RIAA 5× platinum; Syre, Erys and CTV3 each Top 40 on the Billboard 200; Grammy Album of the Year nomination as featured artist on Justice (2022) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaden_Smith (build store)

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