Jamie Foxx
USINFO | 2014-06-18 15:38

Born Eric Marlon Bishop
December 13, 1967 (age 46)
Terrell, Texas, United States
Alma mater Alliant International University
Occupation
  • Actor
  • singer-songwriter
  • musician
Years active 1989–present
Known for Ray
Collateral
Dreamgirls
Horrible Bosses
Django Unchained
Television In Living Color
The Jamie Foxx Show
Children 2


Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, and musician. As an actor, his work in the film 2004 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 or comedy. The same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the action film Collateral.

He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing three albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, Best Night of My Life, and Intuition. Foxx starred in his own television show, The Jamie Foxx Show, as Jamie King. In 2012, Foxx starred in the film Django Unchained, and in 2014, he played the villain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

At the 2006 Black Entertainment Television(BET) Awards, Foxx won Best Duet/Collaboration with Kanye West for "Gold Digger" and tied with Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You" for Video of the Year. On December 8, 2006, Foxx received four Grammy Award® nominations, which included Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for Love Changes featuring Mary J. Blige, Best R&B Album for Unpredictable, Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for Georgia by Ludacris&Field Mob featuring Jamie Foxx, and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for Unpredictable featuring Ludacris.

On November 25, 2012 at BET’s Soul Train Awards, Foxx joked "It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our lord and savior Barack Obama." The joke led to condemnation from some Christians, to which Foxx responded by saying "I'm a comic [and] sometimes I think people get a little too tight." While hosting NBC's Saturday Night Live on December 9, 2012 and promoting Django Unchained, Foxx joked about being excited "to kill all the white people in the movie". Appearing at the 2013 NAACP Image Awards, Foxx praised the achievements of black people, saying that "black people are the most talented people in the world".

In 2014, Foxx appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, as the main antagonist Electro, and will co-star with Quvenzhané Wallis in Annie, the update of the comic strip-turned-musical that Sony is making with producers Will Smith and Jay-Z. Foxx was also confirmed by director Oliver Stone to be cast as Martin Luther King Jr. in his upcoming biopic produced by Steven Spielberg.

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