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Jamie Foxx
Foxx promoting Stealth in July 2005
Born	Eric Marlon Bishop December 13, 1967 (1967-12-13) (age 41) Terrell, Texas, United States
Occupation	Actor, comedian, singer
Years active	1985–present

Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and singer. For his work in the film Ray, Foxx won the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor. He has also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical/comedy and has been nominated for several Grammy Awards.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Early career and In Living Color 2.1 Film career 2.2 Music career 3 Personal life 3.1 Controversy 3.2 Legal issues 4 Discography 5 Tours 6 Filmography 7 Awards and nominations 7.1 Television awards 7.2 Music awards 8 References 9 External links

Early life

Foxx was born Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967, in Terrell, Texas.¹ He is the son of Louise Annette Talley Dixson and Darrell Bishop, a stock broker who changed his name to Shahid Abdula after converting to Islam. Foxx was abandoned seven months after birth and was raised by his mother's adoptive parents, Estelle and Mark Talley, in Terrell, Texas, a racially segregated community at the time.² He had a strict Baptist upbringing.³⁴ Foxx began piano lessons at the age of five by his grandmother's orders. As a teenager, he was a part-time pianist and choir leader in Terrell's New Hope Baptist Church.²

Foxx attended Terrell High School, where he received top grades, played basketball and football as quarterback, and had an ambition to play for the Dallas Cowboys. He was the first player in the school's history to pass for more than 1,000 yards.²⁵ He also sang in a band called Leather and Lace.² After completing high school, Foxx received a scholarship to United States International University, where he studied classical music and composition.²⁶ He has often cited his adoptive grandmother's influence on his life.³⁷

Early career and In Living Color

After accepting a girlfriend's dare, Foxx told jokes and did impressions at a comedy club's open mic night in 1989. When he found that female comedians were often called first to perform, he changed his name to Jamie Foxx, feeling that it was an ambiguous enough name to disallow any biases.²⁸ He chose his surname as a tribute to comedian Redd Foxx.⁸

Foxx joined the cast of In Living Color in 1991 and subsequently had a recurring role in the comedy-drama sitcom Roc.⁹ In 1996, Foxx was given his own sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show. The following year, he made his film debut.

Film career

Foxx made his film debut in the 1997 comedy, Booty Call.² His first dramatic role came in Oliver Stone's 1999 film Any Given Sunday, where he played a heavy-partying American football player.³ He was cast in the role in part because of his background as a football player.³ Foxx has since evolved into a respected dramatic actor. Following Any Given Sunday, Foxx was featured as taxi driver Max Durocher in the film Collateral alongside Tom Cruise, for which he received outstanding reviews and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.³ His standout performance, however, was his portrayal of Ray Charles in the biopic Ray (2004), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.³

Foxx is the second male, and the first African American, in history to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the same year for two different movies, Collateral and Ray. The only other male actor to achieve this was Al Pacino. In 2005, Foxx was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.¹⁰

Following this success, Foxx appeared in three more movies: Jarhead, Miami Vice, and Dreamgirls which were hits at the box office and lifted Foxx even higher as a bankable star in Hollywood. 2007 brought him the lead role in the film The Kingdom, opposite Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner and Ashraf Barhom.

In September 2007, Foxx was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He said, upon receiving the honor, "[it was] one of the most amazing days of my life."¹¹ In May of 2009 Foxx had a lead role in the film The Soloist.

Music career

Foxx began piano lessons at age five. In 1994, Foxx released an album (on the Fox record label) entitled Peep This. In 2001, he hosted the MTV Video Music Awards. His music career went into a higher gear when, in 2004, he was featured on rapper Twista's song, "Slow Jamz", which also featured Kanye West. The song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, as well as number three on the UK singles chart. Foxx's second collaboration with Kanye West, "Gold Digger", in which he sang the "I Got a Woman" Ray Charles-influenced hook, went straight to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and remained there for 10 weeks. In 2005, Foxx was featured on the single "Georgia" by Atlanta rappers Ludacris and Field Mob. The song sampled Ray Charles' hit "Georgia on My Mind".

Foxx released his second studio album, Unpredictable, in December 2005. It debuted at number two, selling 598,000 copies in its first week.¹² The following week, the album rose to number one, selling 200,000 copies.¹³ The album has sold 1.98 million copies in the United States and was certified double Platinum by the RIAA.¹⁴¹⁵ The album also charted in the UK Albums Chart, where it peaked at number nine.¹⁶ Foxx became the fourth artist to have won an Academy Award for acting and to have achieved a number-one record album in the US. (The other three to accomplish this feat were Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Barbra Streisand.) Foxx's first single from the album, the title track, "Unpredictable" (featuring Ludacris) samples "WildFlower" by New Birth. The song peaked inside the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and also made the UK top 20 singles chart. The second US single from the album was "DJ Play A Love Song", which reunited Foxx with Twista. In the UK, however, the second single was "Extravaganza", which saw Foxx once again collaborate with Kanye West. He was not, however, featured in the song's music video.

At the 2006 BET Awards, Foxx won Best Duet/Collaboration with Kanye West for "Gold Digger" and Video of the Year for the same video. Kanye's video tied with Mary J. Blige's (Be Without You) for Video of the year. On December 8, 2006, Foxx received 4 Grammy nominations, which included Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for Love Changes feat Mary J. Blige, Best R&B Album for Unpredictable, Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for Georgia by Ludacris & Field Mob feat Jamie Foxx and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for Unpredictable feat Ludacris.

On January 22, 2007, Foxx was on Sirius Satellite Radio, announcing his new channel, The Foxxhole. The channel features comedy and music primarily by African-American performers, and features much of Fox's own material as well. Foxx's own radio talk show, The Jamie Foxx Show airs Friday evenings on The Foxxhole, and features Johnny Mack, Donald "Speedy" Caldwell, Claudia Jordan, The Poetess, and Lewis Dix as his co-hosts. Guests include popular musicians, actors, and fellow comedians.

He recorded a song with country superstars Rascal Flatts entitled "She Goes All The Way" for their album, Still Feels Good. Foxx also did background vocals for artist/songwriter Tank. He and The-Dream are featured on Plies' "Please Excuse My Hands". He also appeared on the remix of Ne-Yo's "Miss Independent", titled "She Got Her Own". The track also features Fabolous. Foxx then collaborated with rapper The Game on the song "Around The World".

Foxx released his third album titled Intuition featuring such artists, Kanye West, T.I., Lil Wayne and T-Pain. The album's first single, "Just Like Me" featuring T.I., was pormoted by a video directed by Brett Ratner and featuring an appearance by Taraji P. Henson. The second single, "Blame It", featured T-Pain and became a top 5 single on the Billboard Hot 100 and a number-one single on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The "Blame It" music video, directed by Hype Williams, features cameo appearances by Forest Whitaker, Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Howard, Quincy Jones, and Jake Gyllenhaal, among others. Foxx was also featured on T.I.'s single "Live in the Sky" from the album Paper Trail.

On April 6, 2009 Foxx performed the song "You Look So Good In Love" by George Strait at the George Strait Artist of the Decade All-Star Concert. Foxx has been a fan of country music for many years.

Jamie Foxx hosted the 2009 BET Awards on June 28, 2009, which featured several ributes to pop star Michael Jackson, who died three days prior to the show. Aside from performing "Blame It" with T-Pain and "She Got Her Own" with Ne-Yo and Fabolous, Foxx opened the show with a rendition of Jackson's "Beat It" dance routine and closed the show with a cover of The Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" with Ne-Yo.

Personal life

This section requires expansion.

Foxx has a daughter, Corinne Bishop, who was born in 1995.²

Jamie Foxx performed a public service announcement for Do Something to promote food drives in local communities.¹⁷

Controversy

In April 2009, Foxx and his co-hosts on The Jamie Foxx Show on Foxxhole Radio made several dispariging comments regarding singer Miley Cyrus which were found to be offensive, in response to a caller's comment on a recent altercation between Cyrus and rock band Radiohead. ¹⁸Foxx issued a public apology on the Jay Leno Show several days later in response to growing public outcry as well as televised criticism by Cyrus's father, country singer, Billy Ray Cyrus. ¹⁹

Legal issues

In April 2003, Foxx was involved in an incident with two police officers who were attempting to escort him and his sister out of Harrah's casino in New Orleans. Employees claimed they had failed to show identification upon entry. Originally charged with trespassing, disturbing the peace, battery on police officers and resisting arrest, Foxx pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace in exchange for the other charges being dropped, and was sentenced to a six month suspended jail term with two years probation and a $1500 fine.²⁰²¹

Discography

• Peep This (1994)
• Unpredictable (2005)
• Intuition (2008)

Tours

7-3-09: The Blame It Tour [Headliner]

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1992	Toys	Baker
1996	The Truth About Cats & Dogs	Ed
	The Great White Hype	Hassan El Ruk'n
1997	Booty Call	Bunz
1998	The Players Club	Blue
1999	Held Up	Michael
	Any Given Sunday	Willie Beamen	Nominated — BET Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Male Performance
2000	Bait	Alvin Sanders
2001	Date from Heaven
	Ali	Drew 'Bundini' Brown	BET Award for Best Supporting Actor NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
2003	Shade	Larry Jennings
2004	Breakin' All the Rules	Quincy Watson	Nominated — BET Award for Best Actor, Musical or Comedy
	Collateral	Max	BET Award for Best Supporting Actor Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated — NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
	Ray	Ray Charles	Academy Award for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role BET Award for Best Actor Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture National Board of Review Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Seattle Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
	Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story	Tookie	BET Award for Best Actor, Network/Cable Television NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
2005	Stealth	Lt. Henry Purcell
	Jarhead	Staff Sgt. Sykes	Nominated — Black Movie Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor
2006	Miami Vice	Ricardo Tubbs
	Dreamgirls	Curtis Taylor, Jr.	Nominated — BET Award for Best Actor Nominated — NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2007	The Kingdom	Ronald Fleury
2009	The Soloist	Nathaniel Ayers	Skank Robber
2010	Law Abiding Citizen	unknown	forthcoming film

Awards and nominations

Television awards

• Image Awards
  • 1998, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: The Jamie Foxx Show
  • 1999, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: The Jamie Foxx Show (nominated)
  • 2000, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: The Jamie Foxx Show (nominated)
  • 2001, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: The Jamie Foxx Show (nominated)

Music awards

• American Music Awards
  • 2006, Favorite R&B/Soul Male Artist
  • 2006, Favorite R&B/Soul Album: Unpredictable (nominated)

• BET Awards
  • 2006, Best Collaboration ("Unpredictable") with Ludacris (nominated)
  • 2009, Best Collaboration ("Blame It") with T-Pain (Winner)
• Grammy Awards
  • 2007, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Unpredictable") with Ludacris (nominated)
  • 2007, Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group ("Georgia") with Ludacris & Field Mob (nominated)
  • 2007, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group ("Love Changes") with Mary J. Blige (nominated)
  • 2007, Best R&B Album (Unpredictable) (nominated)
  • 2006, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Slow Jamz") with Twista & Kanye West (nominated)
  • 2006, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance ("Creepin") (nominated)

• MOBO Awards
  • 2006, Best R&B Act (nominated)

• MTV Video Music Awards
  • 2006, Best Hip-Hop Video: "Gold Digger" with Kanye West (nominated)
  • 2006, Best Ringtone: "Gold Digger" with Kanye West (nominated)
  • 2006, Best R&B Video: "Unpredictable" featuring Ludacris (nominated)
  • 2004, MTV2 Award: "Slow Jamz" with Twista & Kanye West (nominated)

• Soul Train Awards
  • 2007, Best R&B/Soul Album, Male: Unpredictable
  • 2006, Best Music Video: "Gold Digger" with Kanye West
  • 2006, Best R&B/Soul Dance Cut: "Gold Digger" with Kanye West (nominated)

• Vibe Awards
  • 2005, Best Collabo: "Gold Digger" with Kanye West (nominated)
  • 2004, Best Collabo: "Slow Jamz" with Twista & Kanye West (nominated)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jamie Foxx

• Official Site
• Jamie Foxx at the Internet Movie Database
• Jamie Foxx at MySpace

v • d • e Jamie Foxx Studio albums Peep This · Unpredictable · Intuition Singles "Infatuation" · "Experiment" · "Unpredictable" · "Extravaganza" · "DJ Play a Love Song" · "Can I Take U Home" · "Just Like Me" · "Blame It"  · "Digital Girl" Featured singles "Slow Jamz" · "Gold Digger" · "Georgia" · "Live in the Sky" · "Please Excuse My Hands"  · "She Got Her Own" Filmography Toys · The Truth About Cats & Dogs · The Great White Hype · Booty Call · The Players Club · Held Up · Any Given Sunday · Bait · Ali · Shade · Breakin' All the Rules · Collateral · Ray · Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story · Stealth · Jarhead · Miami Vice · Dreamgirls · The Kingdom · The Soloist Television In Living Color · The Jamie Foxx Show Related articles Discography

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NAME	Foxx, Jamie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bishop, Eric Marlon
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor, singer, comedian
DATE OF BIRTH	December 13, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Terrell, Texas
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH