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

Known For

Staff Sgt. Sykes

Jarhead

Det. Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs

Miami Vice

Curtis Taylor Jr.

Dreamgirls

Max Durocher

Collateral

Ray Charles

Ray

Henry Purcell

Stealth

Ronald Fleury

The Kingdom

Bunz

Booty Call

Nick Rice

Law Abiding Citizen

Jamie Foxx

I'm Still Here

Baker

Toys

Drew 'Bundini' Brown

Ali

Willie Beamen

Any Given Sunday

Kelvin Moore

Valentine's Day

Darryl

Due Date

Narrator (voice)

Rodman: For Better or Worse

Larry Jennings

Shade

Alvin Sanders

Bait

Self

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Bug (voice)

Strays

Quincy Watson

Breakin' All the Rules

Nico (voice)

Rio

Nathaniel Ayers

The Soloist

Django Freeman

Django Unchained

Michael

Held Up

Self (archive footage)

You're Watching Video Music Box

Motherfucker Jones

Horrible Bosses

Self

DJ SWB Volume 6 | This Is How We Do

Plies: Goon In the Trap

Self (archive footage)

DJ Juice: The King is Back Mixtape Blend DVD Vol. 70

Self (archive footage)

Mistarello Presents: Hard Body Blends Volume 4

Electro / Max Dillon

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

President James Sawyer

White House Down

Nico (voice)

Rio 2

William "Will" Stacks

Annie

Self

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

The Bokushi

Tin Soldier

Matt

Back in Action

Self

Laffapalooza! #2

Django (uncredited)

A Million Ways to Die in the West

Motherfucker Jones

Horrible Bosses 2

Self

The Concert for Valor

God

Not Another Church Movie

Self

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Self

David Blaine: Real or Magic

Self - Host

Genius. A Night for Ray Charles

Self (archive footage)

TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy

Yahya / John

Robin Hood

Vincent Downs

Sleepless

Self

12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief

Bats

Baby Driver

Self

American Rap Stars

Self

City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'

Self

A Man's Story

Himself

Jamie Foxx: I Might Need Security

Himself

Jamie Foxx Unleashed: Lost, Stolen and Leaked!

Blue

The Players Club

Ed

The Truth About Cats & Dogs

Self

Dying Laughing

Stan 'Tookie' Williams

Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

Self

Eddie Murphy: One Night Only

Himself

Jamie Foxx: Straight from the Foxxhole

Self

Sesame Street: Elmo's Christmas Countdown

Hassan El Ruk'n

The Great White Hype

Himself

Thunder Soul

Self

Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!

Self

Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life

Self

Always Whitney Houston

Malik / Xavier / Cleveland A. Smith

All-Star Weekend

Self

Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!

Al Simmons / Spawn

King Spawn

Walter McMillian

Just Mercy

Self (segment "Slow Jamz")

Kanye West: College Dropout [Video Anthology]

Self

The Apollo

George Jefferson

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"

Art

Project Power

Self - Roastmaster

Shaq's All Star Comedy Roast 2: Emmitt Smith

Self

The Black Godfather

Self

It's Black Entertainment

Self

Hitsville: The Making of Motown

Joe Gardner (voice)

Soul

Self

The Wages of Heroism: Making The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Mike Tyson

Untitled Mike Tyson Biopic

Self

CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion

Self

This Is Stand-Up

Self

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

Self

Any Given Tuesday

On the Shoulders of Giants

Slick Charles

They Cloned Tyrone

Bud Jablonski

Day Shift

Willie E. Gary

The Burial

Prentice earl sanders

The Zebra Murders

Simon Hammerstein

Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas

The Ferryman

God Is a Bullet

Self

QT8: The First Eight

Max Dillon / Electro

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Self

Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was...

Jamie Foxx

We Are the World 25 For Haiti

Self

Jamie Foxx: Secret to Success

Self

A Motown Christmas

Self

Luther: Never Too Much

Self (archive footage)

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 10th Anniversary Special

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

102

Gender

Male

Birthday

1967-12-13

Place of Birth

Terrell, Texas, USA

Also Known As

Eric Marlon Bishop