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Jamie Foxx

Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, stand-up comedian, and talk radio host. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical/comedy. He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing two albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, and Intuition. Foxx was abandoned seven months after birth, and was subsequently adopted and raised in Terrell by his mother's adoptive parents, Estelle and Mark Talley. Foxx had a strict Baptist upbringing and began piano lessons at the age of five by his grandmother's orders. He has often acknowledged his grandmother's influence in his life as one of the greatest reasons for his success. When he found that female comedians were often called first to perform, he changed his name to Jamie Foxx, feeling that it was an ambiguous enough name to disallow any biases. He chose his surname as a tribute to comedian Redd Foxx. From 1996 to 2001, Foxx starred in his own sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, and in 1992 he made his film debut in Toys a comedy directed by Barry Levinson. Following Toys, his first dramatic role came in Oliver Stone's 1999 film Any Given Sunday, where he portrayed a hard-partying American football player. Foxx has since evolved into a respected dramatic actor. Foxx was featured as taxi driver Max Durocher in the film Collateral alongside Tom Cruise, for which he received outstanding reviews and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His standout performance, however, was his portrayal of Ray Charles in the biopic Ray (2004), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Foxx is the second male in history to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the same year for two different movies, Collateral and Ray. In September 2007, Foxx was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


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Born:
Dec 13, 1967 In Terrell, Texas, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
124
First Appeared:
In the movie All-Star Weekend
Latest Project:
Movie Tin Soldier 2025-02-06
Known For
Poster of Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!
Poster of Beat Shazam
Poster of The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Poster of Driven
Filmography
Movie All-Star Weekend Malik / Xavier / Cleveland A. Smith 2025
Movie King Spawn Al Simmons / Spawn 2025
Movie Back in Action Matt 2025-01-17
Movie Tin Soldier The Bokushi 2025-02-06
Movie TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy Self (archive footage) 2024-04-28
Movie Not Another Church Movie God 2024-05-10
Movie They Cloned Tyrone Slick Charles 2023-06-14
Movie The Burial Willie E. Gary 2023-10-06
Movie Strays Bug (voice) 2023-08-17
Movie God Is a Bullet The Ferryman 2023-06-22
Movie 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Self 2022-11-19
Movie Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home Self 2022-05-03
Movie Day Shift Bud Jablonski 2022-08-12
Series Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! Brian Dixon 2021-04-14
Movie 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Self 2021-11-20
Movie You're Watching Video Music Box Self (archive footage) 2021-12-03
Movie Spider-Man: No Way Home Max Dillon / Electro 2021-12-15
Movie Project Power Art 2020-08-14
Movie This Is Stand-Up Self 2020-04-12
Movie Soul Joe Gardner (voice) 2020-12-25
Movie The Apollo Self 2019-04-24
Movie Just Mercy Walter McMillian 2019-12-25
Movie Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" George Jefferson 2019-05-22
Movie The Black Godfather Self 2019-06-07
Movie QT8: The First Eight Self 2019-10-21
Movie Rodman: For Better or Worse Narrator (voice) 2019-09-01
Movie Hitsville: The Making of Motown Self 2019-08-24
Movie Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas Simon Hammerstein 2018-12-07
Movie CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion Self 2018-10-05
Movie Robin Hood Yahya / John 2018-11-03
Movie Dying Laughing Self 2017-02-24
Movie Sleepless Vincent Downs 2017-01-12
Series Beat Shazam Himself - Host 2017-05-25
Series The F Word Himself 2017-05-31
Series White Famous Jamie Foxx 2017-10-15
Movie Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic! Self 2017-11-22
Movie Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life Self 2017-06-08
Movie Baby Driver Bats 2017-06-28
Series Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson (Voice) 2016-04-11
Series Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party Himself 2016-11-07
Movie Rio 2 Nico (voice) 2014-03-19
Movie The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Electro / Max Dillon 2014-04-16
Movie A Million Ways to Die in the West Django (uncredited) 2014-05-22
Movie The Concert for Valor Self 2014-11-11
Movie Horrible Bosses 2 Motherfucker Jones 2014-11-12
Movie Annie William "Will" Stacks 2014-12-18
Movie The Wages of Heroism: Making The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Self 2014-08-19
Series Circus Halligalli Unknown 2013-02-25
Movie White House Down President James Sawyer 2013-06-27
Movie David Blaine: Real or Magic Self 2013-11-19
Movie Any Given Tuesday Self 2013-10-17
Movie Always Whitney Houston Self 2012-01-01
Movie Django Unchained Django Freeman 2012-12-25
Movie 12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief Self 2012-12-12
Movie Eddie Murphy: One Night Only Self 2012-11-14
Movie A Man's Story Self 2011-10-08
Movie Rio Nico (voice) 2011-04-03
Movie Horrible Bosses Motherfucker Jones 2011-07-08
Movie Plies: Goon In the Trap 2010-02-09
Movie Thunder Soul Himself 2010-03-13
Movie Valentine's Day Kelvin Moore 2010-02-10
Movie Due Date Darryl 2010-11-03
Movie I'm Still Here Jamie Foxx 2010-09-10
Movie We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial Self 2009-01-18
Movie DJ SWB Volume 6 | This Is How We Do Self 2009-02-09
Movie Law Abiding Citizen Nick Rice 2009-10-15
Movie The Soloist Nathaniel Ayers 2009-04-24
Movie DJ Juice: The King is Back Mixtape Blend DVD Vol. 70 Self (archive footage) 2009-07-06
Movie Mistarello Presents: Hard Body Blends Volume 4 Self (archive footage) 2009-05-27
Movie The Kingdom Ronald Fleury 2007-08-22
Movie Sesame Street: Elmo's Christmas Countdown Self 2007-12-23
Series The Graham Norton Show Himself 2007-02-22
Movie Dreamgirls Curtis Taylor Jr. 2006-12-25
Movie Miami Vice Det. Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs 2006-07-27
Movie Kanye West: College Dropout [Video Anthology] Self (segment "Slow Jamz") 2005-03-22
Movie Jarhead Staff Sgt. Sykes 2005-11-04
Movie Stealth Henry Purcell 2005-07-27
Series The Tyra Banks Show Unknown 2005-09-12
Movie Breakin' All the Rules Quincy Watson 2004-05-14
Movie Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story Stan 'Tookie' Williams 2004-03-03
Movie Collateral Max Durocher 2004-08-04
Movie Genius. A Night for Ray Charles Self - Host 2004-10-07
Movie Ray Ray Charles 2004-10-29
Movie City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral' Self 2004-12-14
Series Jimmy Kimmel Live! Unknown 2003-01-26
Movie Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!! Self 2003-01-01
Movie Shaq's All Star Comedy Roast 2: Emmitt Smith Self - Roastmaster 2003-06-17
Movie Jamie Foxx Unleashed: Lost, Stolen and Leaked! Himself 2003-03-25
Series The Ellen DeGeneres Show Unknown 2003-09-08
Movie Shade Larry Jennings 2003-05-18
Movie American Rap Stars Self 2002-01-01
Movie It's Black Entertainment Self 2002-02-08
Movie Jamie Foxx: I Might Need Security Himself 2002-02-23
Series Driven Unknown 2002-01-16
Series BET Awards Unknown 2001-06-19
Series Hard Knocks Unknown 2001-08-01
Movie Ali Drew 'Bundini' Brown 2001-12-10
Movie Bait Alvin Sanders 2000-09-15
Series 106 & Park Unknown 2000-09-11
Movie Held Up Michael 1999-10-08
Movie Any Given Sunday Willie Beamen 1999-12-22
Series TRL Unknown 1998-09-14
Movie The Players Club Blue 1998-04-08
Movie Booty Call Bunz 1997-02-26
Series The View Unknown 1997-08-11
Series The Jamie Foxx Show Jamie King 1996-08-28
Series The Daily Show Unknown 1996-07-22
Series Moesha Unknown 1996-01-23
Movie The Great White Hype Hassan El Ruk'n 1996-05-03
Movie The Truth About Cats & Dogs Ed 1996-04-26
Series Inside the Actors Studio Unknown 1994-08-14
Movie Jamie Foxx: Straight from the Foxxhole Himself 1993-11-06
Series Late Night with Conan O'Brien Unknown 1993-09-13
Series The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Unknown 1992-05-25
Movie Toys Baker 1992-12-18
Series Roc Unknown 1991-08-25
Series In Living Color Self - Various Characters 1990-04-15
Series LIVE with Kelly and Mark Unknown 1988-09-05
Series MTV Video Music Awards Host - Himself 1984-09-14
Series Wetten, dass..? Unknown 1981-02-14
Series Saturday Night Live Unknown 1975-10-11
Series The Grammy Awards Unknown 1959-11-29
Series The Oscars Unknown 1953-03-19
Series Today Unknown 1952-01-14