Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx

Biography

Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, and comedian. He gained his career breakthrough as a featured player in the sketch comedy show In Living Colour until the show's end in 1994. Following this success, he was given his own sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show, in which he starred, co-created, and produced from 1996 to 2001.

Foxx received acclaim for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the film Ray (2004), winning the Academy Award, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. That same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in the crime film Collateral. He gained prominence for his film roles in Booty Call (1997), Ali (2001), Jarhead (2005), Dreamgirls (2006), Miami Vice (2006), Horrible Bosses (2011), Django Unchained (2012), Annie (2014), Baby Driver (2017), and Soul (2020). He played the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). For playing Walter McMillian in Just Mercy (2019), he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

Foxx also embarked on a successful career as an R&B singer in the 2000s. He earned two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with his features on the singles "Slow Jamz" by Twista alongside Kanye West and "Gold Digger" by the former. His single "Blame It" won him the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Four of his five studio albums have charted in the top ten of the U.S. Billboard 200: Unpredictable (2005), which topped the chart; Intuition (2008); Best Night of My Life (2010); and Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses (2015). Since 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the Fox game show Beat Shazam. In 2021, he wrote his autobiography Act Like You Got Some Sense.

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Personal info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1967-12-13

Place of birth

Terrell, Texas, USA

Images

Cast

Jarhead

Jarhead

2005

6.70

Miami Vice

Miami Vice

2006

6.01

Dreamgirls

Dreamgirls

2006

6.73

Collateral

Collateral

2004

7.23

Ray

Ray

2004

7.45

Stealth

Stealth

2005

5.40

The Kingdom

The Kingdom

2007

6.70

Booty Call

Booty Call

1997

5.20

Toys

Toys

1992

5.30

Ali

Ali

2001

6.76

Due Date

Due Date

2010

6.40

Shade

Shade

2003

6.20

Bait

Bait

2000

5.69

Strays

Strays

2023

7.24

Rio

Rio

2011

6.75

The Soloist

The Soloist

2009

6.70

Held Up

Held Up

1999

5.50

Rio 2

Rio 2

2014

6.50

Annie

Annie

2014

6.20

Tin Soldier

Tin Soldier

2025

4.94

Robin Hood

Robin Hood

2018

5.91

Sleepless

Sleepless

2017

5.90

Baby Driver

Baby Driver

2017

7.45

Thunder Soul

Thunder Soul

2010

6.80

Just Mercy

Just Mercy

2019

7.86

The Apollo

The Apollo

2019

6.50

Soul

Soul

2020

8.11

Day Shift

Day Shift

2022

6.78

The Burial

The Burial

2023

7.11