Will Smith is another actor who doesn't get enough credit for his ability to play across genres. He's stereotyped as 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' a role which was close to his real-life personality, and also got tarred with the sci-fi brush by doing 'Independence Day,' 'Men in Black' and the critically-panned 'Wild Wild West' in quick succession. That means many people gloss over his role as Paul in 1993's 'Six Degrees of Separation.'
Smith is famously married to Jada Pinkett-Smith, and has been since 1997, but in this film, he was the mysterious 'Paul,' a serial conman who professed to be rich and straight but was actually poor and gay. The film is based on a Pulitzer-Prize winning book by John Guare, which is itself based on the real-life story of professional fraudster David Hampton.