LL Cool J LL Cool J James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), known professionally as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American hip hop recording artist, record producer, actor, author and entrepreneur from Queens, New York. He is known for such hip hop hits as "Going Back to Cali", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", "Rock the Bells" and "Mama Said Knock You Out", as well as romantic ballads such as "Doin' It", "I Need Love", "All I Have", "Around the Way Girl" and "Hey Lover". A two-time Grammy Award winner, LL Cool J has released 13 studio
James Smith (actor) Watkins in the 2017 mockumentary, "Carnage". James Smith (actor) James Smith (born 1948) who trained at LAMDA, is an English actor well known for his part in the BBC's "The Thick of It" (22 episodes) as senior special adviser Glenn Cullen and as Michael Rodgers, Director of Diplomacy at the Foreign Office in "In the Loop", the film spin off of "The Thick of It". From 9 August 2010 Smith plays Clive in the BBC comedy "Grandma's House". He also took a minor non-speaking role as Lord Carrington in the 2011 film "The Iron Lady". In 2014 he appeared in