Stephen A Smith was born in the year 1967 and he is American sports television personality, a sports journalist and a sports radio host. He is also an actor. He works as a commentator for ESPN First take and he appeared at Molly Qerim and Max Kellerman. He also made some appearance at SportsCenter and NBA analyst.

Smith was born in the city of New York City in Bronx Borough. He got raised in Hollis section in the Queens. He is a second last of the six children. He grew up with four older sister with one younger brother called Basil and died because of car accident in the year 1992. From his father, he has a half brother. His parents originated from Saint Thomas in US Virgin Islands. The father was a manager for a hardware store. The maternal grandmother is white but other family members are black. He finished his schooling at Thomas Edison high school found in queens.

Stephen A Smith attended Fashion Institute of Technology for a year and he got a scholarship to go to Winston-Salem State University to play basketball. At this university, he was playing the basketball with Coach Clarence Gaines. He is an Omega Psi Phi member.

Smith worked in the print media and started with New York daily News, Greensboro News and Record and Winston-Salem Journals. He worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer as a general sports columnist and NBA Columnist. However, after sometime he was demoted and her job terminated. However, after winning a case against the Inquirer, he was reinstated and he had to agree to remove all the political views from her cable news show and website.

From his biography, Stephen A Smith worked for WEPN radio for New York City and was working together with Brandon Tierney. He ended the show to join television career. He become the on air contributor of the Fox Sports Radio and he was the one who talked about the retirements of Allen Iverson. He became the host of the Fox Sports Radio morning show in the year 2010 and he was replacing Steve Czaban.

Stephen A Smith started the television career with SI and CNN in the year 1999. He is now working like a talk show host and analyst of ESPN and on ESPN First take. He was the host of the daily hour long show called Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith. After cancellation of the show, he started to work completely as a NBA analyst.

As an actor, Stephen A Smith made his debut at General Hospital, ABC soap operate in the cameo role. He also appeared in the Chris Rock Motion picture: I Think I Love My Wife. Stephen A Smith keeps most of her life private and everything about if he is married or not, is just rumors and never commented to anything. He also maintains that he has no children.