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Jamie Foxx

13 Dec, 1967 in Terrell, Texas, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jamie Foxx, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also Known As:

جيمي فوكسДжейми Фокс제이미 폭스ジェイミー・フォックスเจมี ฟ็อกซ์傑米·福克斯Eric Marlon BishopΤζέιμι Φοξ杰米·福克斯ג'יימי פוקס

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Jarhead
67% (2005)
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Dreamgirls
68% (2006)
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Ray
75% (2004)
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Booty Call
53% (1997)
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Ali
68% (2001)
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Due Date
64% (2010)
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Shade
62% (2003)
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Bait
57% (2000)
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Strays
73% (2023)
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The Soloist
67% (2009)
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Held Up
55% (1999)
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Annie
63% (2014)
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Today
58% (1952)
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The View
45% (1997)
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106 & Park
60% (2000)
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Moesha
68% (1996)
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Roc
78% (1991)
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The Shop
56% (2018)
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The Oscars
70% (1953)
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TRL
55% (1998)
Driven
0% (2002)
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BET Awards
77% (2001)
Tyson
0% (1970)
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Hollywood Squares
65% (1998)
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Beat Shazam
55% (2017)
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The F Word
34% (2017)
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White Famous
50% (2017)
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Roc
78% (1991)
Diary
0% (2000)
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Honest Trailers
63% (2012)
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TV Total
61% (1999)