Karyn Parsons, Actress: Major Payne. Karyn Parsons decided to go into acting at the age of 13. She had her first TV role in the NBC drama The Bronx Zoo (1987), but she made her big break as Will Smith's cousin "Hilary Banks" on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990).
Parsons played Hilary Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The role first called for a model type, but Parsons says she couldn't do that. So, she says, she made Hilary self-centered: a "real brat."
Hilary Banks was kind of an icon for teenage girls in the 90s. Okay so she was vacuous and spoilt, but she was also driven, feisty and always there for her younger siblings.
Karyn Parsons, Actress: Major Payne. Karyn Parsons decided to go into acting at the age of 13. She had her first TV role in the NBC drama The Bronx Zoo (1987), but she made her big break as Will Smith's cousin "Hilary Banks" on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990).
Parsons played Hilary Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The role first called for a model type, but Parsons says she couldn't do that. So, she says, she made Hilary self-centered: a "real brat."
Hilary Banks was kind of an icon for teenage girls in the 90s. Okay so she was vacuous and spoilt, but she was also driven, feisty and always there for her younger siblings.
