--- title: Will Smith Goes on Bungee Jump for Birthday description: Will Smith celebrated his 50th birthday by bungee jumping out of a helicopter into the Grand Canyon on Tuesday afternoon. canonical: https://time.com/5406337/will-smith-bungee-jump-birthday/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-25T21:13:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T17:25:03.000Z og:title: Will Smith Bungee Bravely Jumps Into the Grand Canyon og:description: Many happy returns of the day to the actor og:url: https://time.com/5406337/will-smith-bungee-jump-birthday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4dbc4aa8672ee64a/69893b18bc6cfcc6033e706c/will-smith-birthday-bungee-jumping-grand-canyon-youtube.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Premiere Of Netflix's "Bright" - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Will Smith Bungee Bravely Jumps Into the Grand Canyon twitter:description: Many happy returns of the day to the actor twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4dbc4aa8672ee64a/69893b18bc6cfcc6033e706c/will-smith-birthday-bungee-jumping-grand-canyon-youtube.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Will Smith Bungee Jumped Into the Grand Canyon to Celebrate His 50th Birthday > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Frazer Harrison—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Updated: Dec 12, 2023 5:25 PM UTCPublished: Sep 25, 2018 9:13 PM UTC [Will Smith](http://time.com/4784198/will-smith-cannes-2017/) rang in his birthday on Tuesday by bungee jumping out of a helicopter into the depths of the [Grand Canyon](http://time.com/4283873/grand-canyon-1947/), as one does. The beloved actor, who’s celebrating his 50th birthday this year, live-streamed the entire adventure on his YouTube channel as a part of his [YouTube Original special](http://time.com/4087307/youtube-red/), _Will Smith: The Jump_. As part of the series, Smith has been accomplishing goals on his bucket list at the behest of YouTube stars, Yes Theory, who challenged him to conquer his biggest fears. > [](https://twitter.com/YesTheory/status/1044295172673228800) Smith’s big birthday jump is a gift to others too; his memorable jump raised donations and awareness for Global Citizen’s education campaigns. You can watch Smith’s fearless dive into the heart of the Grand Canyon in full below. People were impressed. > [](https://twitter.com/935KDAY/status/1044730329104175105) > [](https://twitter.com/djbling/status/1044728187354136582) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5406337/will-smith-bungee-jump-birthday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5406337/will-smith-bungee-jump-birthday/"},"headline":"Will Smith Bungee Jumped Into the Grand Canyon to Celebrate His 50th Birthday","datePublished":"2018-09-25T21:13:46.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T17:25:03.000Z","description":"Many happy returns of the day to the actor","url":"https://time.com/5406337/will-smith-bungee-jump-birthday/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4dbc4aa8672ee64a/69893b18bc6cfcc6033e706c/will-smith-birthday-bungee-jumping-grand-canyon-youtube.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4dbc4aa8672ee64a/69893b18bc6cfcc6033e706c/will-smith-birthday-bungee-jumping-grand-canyon-youtube.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Premiere Of Netflix's \"Bright\" - Arrivals","caption":"Premiere Of Netflix's \"Bright\" - Arrivals","creditText":"Frazer Harrison—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5406337/will-smith-bungee-jump-birthday/","name":"Will Smith Bungee Jumped Into the Grand Canyon to Celebrate His 50th Birthday"}}]}] ```