Jamie Foxx
- Acting
- December 13, 1967 · Terrell, Texas, USA
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Jamie Foxx: Take Care of Yourself
- Girl Dad · Producer
- Being Eddie · Self
- Happy Birthday · Producer
- Tin Soldier · The Bokushi, Executive producer
- Number One on the Call Sheet · Self, Producer
- Back in Action · Matt, Executive producer
- A Motown Christmas · Self
- Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was... · Self, Writer
- Luther: Never Too Much · Self, Producer
- Evolution of the Black Quarterback · Self
- Not Another Church Movie · God
- TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy · Self
- Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- The Burial · Willie E. Gary, Producer
- Story Ave · Producer
- Strays · Bug (Voice)
- God Is a Bullet · The Ferryman
- They Cloned Tyrone · Slick Charles, Producer
- Alert: Missing Persons Unit · Executive producer, Story
- Hip Hop Family Christmas Wedding · Executive producer
- 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony · Self
- Day Shift · Bud Jablonski, Executive producer
- Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home · Self
- Jamie Foxx: Secret to Success · Self
- Million Dollar Wheels · Executive producer
- jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy · Self
- Spider-Man: No Way Home · Max Dillon / Electro
- Hip Hop Family Christmas · Producer
- You're Watching Video Music Box · Self
- 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony · Self
- Dad Stop Embarrassing Me - The Afterparty · Self
- Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! · Brian Dixon, Executive producer
- Soul · Joe Gardner (Voice)
- The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration · Self
- Project Power · Art
- This Is Stand-Up · Self
- Just Mercy · Walter McMillian
- QT8: The First Eight · Self
- Rodman: For Better or Worse · Narrator (Voice), Executive producer
- Hitsville: The Making of Motown · Self
- The Black Godfather · Self
- Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" · George Jefferson
- The Apollo · Self
- Today with Jenna & Sheinelle · Self
- The Masked Singer · Self
- Robin Hood · Yahya / John
- CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion · Self
- The Shop · Self
- Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic! · Self
- White Famous · Jamie Foxx
- Carpool Karaoke: The Series · Self
- Baby Driver · Bats
- Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life · Self
- The F Word · Self
- Beat Shazam · Self
- Dying Laughing · Self
- Sleepless · Vincent Downs
- Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party · Self
- Movies with Ali Plumb · Self
- Jackie Robinson · Jackie Robinson (Voice)
- Jay Leno's Garage · Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- The Late Late Show with James Corden · Self
- Annie · William "Will" Stacks
- Horrible Bosses 2 · Motherfucker Jones
- The Concert for Valor · Self
- The Wages of Heroism: Making The Amazing Spider-Man 2 · Self
- A Million Ways to Die in the West · Django (uncredited)
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 · Electro / Max Dillon
- Rio 2 · Nico (Voice)
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- David Blaine: Real or Magic · Self
- Any Given Tuesday · Self
- White House Down · President Sawyer
- Circus Halligalli
- Django Unchained · Django Freeman
- 12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief · Self
- Eddie Murphy: One Night Only · Self
- Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee · Self