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.
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 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
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
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...
Self
Jamie Foxx: Secret to Success
Self
A Motown Christmas
Self
Luther: Never Too Much
Fight for '84
(voice)
Groove Tails
Self
Dad Stop Embarrassing Me - The Afterparty
Self
Being Eddie
Self
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
Self
Renaldo and Alexi
Self
The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
105
Gender
Male
Birthday
1967-12-13
Place of Birth
Terrell, Texas, USA
Also Known As
Eric Marlon Bishop