Jada Pinkett and Will Smith are worth $208 million as a couple. In one year Will Smith earned $80 million. Various acting jobs have allowed Jada Pinkett to earn $5 million per year. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Jada Koren Pinkett was named after her mother’s favorite soap-opera actress, Jada Rowland. Pinkett-Smith is of African-American, West Indian (from Jamaica and Barbados), Creole, and Portuguese-Jewish ancestry.[4][5] Her parents are Adrienne Banfield-Jones, the head nurse of an inner-city clinic in Baltimore, and Robsol Pinkett, Jr., who ran a construction company. Banfield-Jones became pregnant in high school; the couple married but divorced after several months. Banfield-Jones raised Pinkett with the help of her own mother, Marion Martin Banfield, a social worker. Banfield noticed her granddaughter’s passion for the performing arts and enrolled her in piano, tap dance, and ballet lessons.She has a younger brother, actor/writer Caleeb Pinkett.