Jamie Foxx profile
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Jamie Foxx

13th December 1967 Terrell, Texas, USA Acting

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.

105 Movies 58 TV Shows 163 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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Strays 17th August 2023 as Bug (voice)
Soul poster
Soul 25th December 2020 as Joe Gardner (voice)
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Annie 18th December 2014 as William "Will" Stacks
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Rio 2 19th March 2014 as Nico (voice)
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Rio 3rd April 2011 as Nico (voice)
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Miami Vice 27th July 2006 as Det. Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs
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Jarhead 4th November 2005 as Staff Sgt. Sykes
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Stealth 27th July 2005 as Henry Purcell
Ray poster
Ray 29th October 2004 as Ray Charles
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Shade 18th May 2003 as Larry Jennings
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Ali 10th December 2001 as Drew 'Bundini' Brown
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Bait 15th September 2000 as Alvin Sanders
Toys poster
Toys 18th December 1992 as Baker
Diary poster
Diary 16th February 2000 as Self
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TRL 14th September 1998
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Moesha 23rd January 1996 as Woody
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Roc 25th August 1991 as Crazy George
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Today 14th January 1952 as Self