Mother of actor Jada Pinkett Smith and co-host of their intergenerational Facebook talk show Red Table Talk. Her granddaughter Willow Smith also hosts.
She worked as a nurse in Baltimore, Maryland.
On the show's first episode, she and her daughter publicly admitted that Pinkett-Smith started dating Will Smith before he was divorced from his first wife.
She is of Jamaican descent on her mother's side, and her mother Marion helped her raise Pinkett-Smith after she and Pinkett-Smith's father divorced. Jaden and Willow Smith are her two grandchildren.
She is Will Smith's mother-in-law and Gabrielle Union appeared on an early episode of Red Table Talks.