Jamie Foxx
Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, comedian, singer, and film producer. He achieved his career breakthrough as a featured player on the sketch comedy show In Living Colour from 1991 to 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 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 further prominence for his film roles in Ali (2001), Jarhead (2005), Dreamgirls (2006), Miami Vice (2006), Horrible Bosses (2011), Django Unchained (2012), Annie (2014), Baby Driver (2017), and Soul (2020). He also played Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) and Walter McMillian in Just Mercy (2019). 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 latter. 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.
Filmography (45)
Back in Action
Tin Soldier
God Is a Bullet
They Cloned Tyrone
Strays
The Burial
Day Shift
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Soul
Project Power
Just Mercy
Robin Hood
Baby Driver
Sleepless
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Horrible Bosses 2
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Annie
Rio 2
White House Down
Django Unchained
Horrible Bosses
Rio
Due Date
Valentine's Day
I'm Still Here
Law Abiding Citizen
The Soloist
The Kingdom
Miami Vice
Dreamgirls
Jarhead
Stealth
Collateral
Ray
Shade
Ali
Bait
Any Given Sunday
Held Up
The Players Club
Booty Call
The Truth About Cats & Dogs
The Great White Hype
