Jada Takes Front and Center As Tv's New Anti-Antihero (Daily Break‪)‬

Jada Pinkett Smith - actress, producer, headbanger and wife to one of the most popular movie stars in the world - is zeroing in on her discomfort zone. // As the lead of TNT's new medical drama, "HawthoRNe," in which she plays the chief nursing officer of a Richmond hospital, the petite actress is making a rare solo turn. In more than 20 films that include "The Matrix" franchise, "Collateral," "The Nutty Professor" and "Scream 2," Smith usually has worked with talented ensembles and had her showy moments, but has rarely been the headliner. Rather, in recent years, much of the attention swirling about Smith has spun around her marriage to Will Smith, their storybook romance and tabloid speculation about their private life and their supposed ties to Scientology.