Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx , is an American actor, singer, songwriter, record producer, film producer and comedian. She won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in Main Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, for her role as Ray Charles in the 2004 biopic Ray. In the same year, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for her role in the crime film Warranty . In spring 2017, Foxx serves as the host and executive producer of the Beat Shazam Fox game show .
Other acting roles include Staff Sergeant Sykes at Jarhead (2005), recording executive Curtis Taylor, Jr. on Dreamgirls (2006), Detective Ricardo Tubbs in the 2006 TV series adaptation film > Miami Vice , role titles in the movie Django Unchained (2012), Electro supervillain at The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), and Gangster Bats/Leon Jefferson III at Baby Driver (2017). Foxx also starred in the comedy show "In Living Color" and his own television show from 1996 to 2001, The Jamie Foxx Show, where he plays Jamie King, Jr. Foxx also starred movie 2014 Annie , where she plays Will Stacks.
Foxx is also a Grammy Award-winning musician, producing four albums in the top ten list of US Billboard 200 Unredited Version (2005), which topped the charts, Intuition (2008), The Best Night of My Life (2010), and Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses (2015).
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Eric Marlon Bishop was born in Terrell, Texas on December 13, 1967. He was the son of Darrell Bishop (renamed Shahid Abdula after he converted to Islam), who sometimes worked as a stockbroker, and Louise Annette Talley Dixon. Shortly after his birth, Foxx was adopted and raised by his mother's adoptive mother, Esther Marie (Nelson), a domestic worker and a nursery operator, and Mark Talley, a yard worker. She has little contact with her biological parents, who are not part of her parenting. Foxx grew up in the black quarter of Terrell, which at that time was a racially segregated community. She often acknowledged the influence of her grandmother in her life as one of the biggest reasons for her success.
Foxx started playing the piano when he was five years old. She has a strict Baptist education, and as a teenager she is a part-time pianist and choral leader at New Hope Terrell Baptist Church. His natural talent for telling jokes is already evident as a third grader, when his teacher will use him as a reward: if the class behaves, Foxx will tell a joke. Foxx attended Terrell High School, where he received top marks and played basketball and football (as a quarterback). His ambition was to play for the Dallas Cowboys, and he was the first player in school history to pass over 1,000 yards. He also sings in a band called Leather and Lace. After finishing high school, Foxx received a scholarship to the International University of the United States, where he studied music and classical composition.
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Careers
1989-2003: Beginning and acting debut
Foxx first told a joke on the comic mic open night club in 1989, after receiving the courage of a boyfriend. When he discovers that female comedians are often called first to perform, he changes his name to Jamie Foxx, feeling that it is a pretty ambiguous name to ban bias. He chose his family name as a tribute to black comedian Redd Foxx. Foxx joined the Live In 1991 color cast, in which Wanda's recurring character also shared names with Redd's friends and co-workers LaWanda Page. Following the recurring role in comedy-drama comedy, Rocx went on to star in his own sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show , from 1996 to 2001.
Foxx made his film debut in the 1992 Toys comedy. His first dramatic role came in the 1999 Oliver Stone Movie Any Given Sunday , in which he plays an American footballer who partied hard, partly because of his own football background. In 2001, Foxx starred in Will Smith in the biopic of Michael Mann, Ali. Three years later, Foxx played Max Durocher's taxi driver in Collateral with Tom Cruise, where he received amazing reviews and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
In 1994, Foxx released an album (on the Fox record label) titled Peep This , which was not commercially successful. In 2003, Foxx made a cameo in the Benzino music video for "Would You", featuring LisaRaye McCoy and Mario Winans.
2003-2006: Ray , Unpredictable , and Dreamgirls
In 2003, Foxx performed on the rapper Twista song, "Slow Jamz", along with Kanye West, who reached # 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and # 3 on the UK Singles chart. Her second collaboration with Kanye West, "Gold Digger," in which Foxx sings the "I Got a Woman" hook influenced by Ray Charles, then goes straight to # 1 on Billboard Hot 100, stays there for 10 Sunday. In 2005, Foxx appeared in the single "Georgia" by Atlanta rappers Ludacris and Field Mob, who took Ray Charles 'hit' Georgia on My Mind "sample.
Foxx will also play Ray Charles in the biography of Ray (2004), where he won an Academy Award for Best Actor and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in the Main Role. Foxx is the third male in history to receive two Oscar acting nominations in the same year for two different movies, Warranty and Ray (other male actors to achieve achievement this being Barry Fitzgerald and Al Pacino). In 2005, Foxx was invited to join the Mobile Image Arts Academy and Science.
Foxx released its second studio album, Unpredictable, in December 2005. It debuted at # 2, sold 598,000 copies in its first week, climbed to # 1 the following week and sold an additional 200,000 copies. To date, the album has sold 1.98 million copies in the United States, and is certified double Platinum by the RIAA. The album also charted on the UK Albums Chart, where it peaked at # 9. Foxx became the fourth artist to win an Academy Award for acting roles and has reached # 1 album in the US, joining Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Barbra Streisand. Foxx's first single from the album, the title song "Unpredictable" (featuring Ludacris), culminated in the Billboard Hot Top 10 single and also made the UK Top 20 single chart; sample song "Wildflower" by New Birth. The second US single from the album was "DJ Play a Love Song," which reunited Foxx with Twista. In the UK, the second single is "Extravaganza", which sees Foxx once again collaborating with Kanye West, although Foxx does not appear in the song's music video.
At the 2006 B Entertainment Awards, Foxx won Best Duet/Collaboration with Kanye West for "Gold Digger" and tied up with "Be Without You" from Mary J. Blige for Video of the Year. On December 8, 2006, Foxx received four Grammy Award nominations, including Best R & amp; B Performance by Duo or Group with Vocals for Love Changes featuring Mary J. Blige, R & B Best for Unpredictable , Best Rap Performance by Duo or Group for Georgia by Ludacris & amp; Field Mob displays Jamie Foxx, and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for Unpredictable featuring Ludacris.
Following on from this success, Foxx went on to appear in box-office hit Jarhead Miami Vice and Dreamgirls, which raised its profile even higher as stars bank in Hollywood.
2007-2009: Intuition
2007 brought her a major role in the thriller thriller The Kingdom opposite Chris Cooper, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner and Ashraf Barhom. In September 2007, Foxx was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: "It was one of the most amazing days of my life," Foxx said. In April 2009, Foxx played a major role in the dramatic film The Soloist . A few months later in October 2009, he played a leading role with Gerard Butler in the movie thriller Law Abiding Citizen .
Foxx released their third album titled Intuition in 2008, featuring Kanye West, T.I., Ne-Yo, Lil 'Kim and T-Pain. The album's first single, "Just Like Me" featuring T.I., was promoted by a video directed by Brett Ratner featuring performances by actress Taraji P. Henson. The second single "Blame It" featured T-Pain and became the top 5 singles on Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Billboard Hot R & amp; B/Hip-Hop Songs. The music video "Blame It", directed by Hype Williams, features cameo appearances by Forest Whitaker, Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Howard, Quincy Jones and Jake's colleague Jake Gyllenhaal, among others.
Foxx's music career also includes a number of collaborations. In 2007, he recorded the song "She Goes All the Way" with country superstar Rascal Flatts for their Still Feels Good album. Foxx did backing vocals for artist/songwriter Tank. She appeared with The-Dream on Plies' "Please Excuse My Hands." He also appeared with Fabolous on Ne-Yo's remix "Miss Independent". Foxx collaborated with The Game rappers on the track "Around the World". Foxx also appeared on single T.I. "Live in the Sky" from the album King .
On January 22, 2007, Foxx launched The Foxxhole, a channel on Sirius Satellite Radio featuring talk-radio programs, comedy and stand-up music albums mainly by African-American artists, as well as many of Foxx's own material. Foxx's own variety-radio program The Jamie Foxx Show airs Friday night at The Foxxhole with guests including musicians, actors and comedians; The co-hosts have included Johnny Mack, Speedy, Claudia Jordan, The Poetess, Lewis Dix, Yvette Wilson, T.D.P and Tyrin Turner. On the April 17, 2009 episode of The Jamie Foxx Show, Foxx and his colleagues made some jokes that were sexually suggestive and dismissive about teenage singer Miley Cyrus. A few days later Foxx issued a public apology about The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in response to increasing public outrage and criticism aired on television by Cyrus's father, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus.
On April 6, 2009, Foxx, a long-time country music buff, performed George Strait's "You Look So Good in Love" George Strait Artist of the Decade All-Star Concert. Jamie Foxx hosted a 2009 BET Awards ceremony on June 28, 2009, which featured several awards to pop star Michael Jackson, who died three days before the show. As well as doing "Blame It" with T-Pain and "She Got Her Own" with Ne-Yo and Fabolous, Foxx opened the show with Jackson's "Beat It" dance dance and closed the cover with The Jackson 5's cover of "I'll Be There "with Ne-Yo. "We want to celebrate this black man He is ours and we share with others," said Foxx during the ceremony.
2010-2012: The Best Night of My Life and < i> Django Unchained
In April 2011, Foxx voiced Nico, a walnut in the movie Rio . During the summer of 2011, Foxx was involved as a producer at In Flow with Affion Crockett in Fox.
Foxx released their fourth album, Best Night of My Life, on December 21, 2010, featuring the single "Winner" (featuring Justin Timberlake and TI), "Living Better Now" (featuring rapper Rick Ross) and "Fall for Your Type "(featuring rapper Drake). On October 7, RCA Music Group announced that it dissolved J Records along with Arista Records and Jive Records, meaning that all artists (including Foxx) who previously signed a contract with three labels will release their future material on the RCA Records brand. In 2011, Jamie Foxx also appeared on the rapper Pitbull Planet Pit album, in the song "Where Do We Go".
In 2012, Foxx starred in the title role of Quentin Tarantino written and directed by Django Unchained . Foxx starred alongside his partner Ray, Kerry Washington, and Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson. In an interview on Django Unchained, Foxx told the magazine Vibe: "As a black person it is always racial... when I go home my other homies like how you day? Well, I just have to be white at least eight hours today, [or] I just have to be white for four hours. "The filmmaking was so emotional as Foxx said," It's a tough shot when you're on the estate and that's where grandma your ancestors were persecuted and killed. "
On November 25, 2012 at BET's Soul Train Awards , Foxx joked: "It's like a church here, first of all, salute God and our Savior and our Barack Obama." The joke leads to the criticism of some Christians, where Foxx answers: "I am a comic [and] sometimes I think people become too tight." While hosting Saturday Night Live on December 8, 2012 to promote Django Unchained , Foxx joked about being excited to "kill all white people in the film". Appearing at the NAACP Picture Award 2013, Foxx praised the achievement of blacks, saying that "blacks are the most talented people in the world". 2013-now: White House Down , Baby Driver, Hollywood , And Spawn Reboot
In 2013, Foxx was elected President James Sawyer at White House Down with Channing Tatum. The following year, Foxx appeared on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Electro villain, and co-starred with QuvenzhanÃÆ' Â © Wallis at Annie , Sony Will Smith and Jay-Z produced an update comic strips that become musical. In 2017, Foxx starred as Bats, a happy-throwing gang member, in the movie Baby Driver . Director Oliver Stone confirmed that Foxx will play Martin Luther King Jr in the upcoming Steven Spielberg biopic.
Foxx's October 2014 Deja Vu duet with Dionne Warwick appeared on the album Feels So Good released by Warwick. She released her fifth studio album, Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses , on May 18, 2015. It debuted on top of the album Top R & amp; B/Hip-Hop Album and at No. 10 on Billboard 200. By 2015, Foxx's voice is featured in the choir on Ariana Grande's song, "Focus".
Starting with his debut on May 25, 2017, Foxx is now the host and executive producer of the Beat Shazam Fox game show, portrayed as a twenty-first century medieval update from the mid-to late-to- 20 ubiquitous TV shows and TV shows Name That Tune . Three sets of two partners trying to beat the computer "Shazam" correctly identify the popular song titles in the shortest amount of time with a higher amount of money gradually, with one team eventually competing for a potential prize of $ 1 million.
On 29 May 2018 Foxx was selected as Al Simmons in Spawn reboot with Todd McFarlane making his direct debut.
Legal incident
In April 2003, Foxx was involved in an incident with two police officers who were trying to escort him and his sister out of the Harrah casino in New Orleans. Employees claim the Foxx party has failed to show identification at login. Initially accused of unauthorized entry, disrupting the peace, battery on police officers and arresting arrests, Foxx did not plead to disrupt the peace in exchange for other charges dropped, and was sentenced to a six-month suspended jail with two years probation and a $ 1,500 fine.
Personal life
Foxx has two daughters: Corinne (born 1994) and Annalize (born August 2009). Corinne made his official debut at Bal des dÃÆ' Â © butantes in November 2014 and was named Miss Golden Globe 2016 on November 18, 2015.
In 2008, Foxx filmed a public service announcement for Do Something to promote food drives in the local community.
Foxx has been involved in hostilities with co-star LL Cool J and Colin Farrell.
On January 18, 2016, Foxx rescued a young man from a burning vehicle that fell outside his home. The driver, Brett Kyle, was driving his truck "at high speed" as the truck left the road, entered the ditch, and rolled over several times. Kyle was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.
Foxx Princess, Corinne, is scheduled to be the star of the Beat Shazam's second season at the Fox Broadcasting Company in 2018. She will replace DJ Gonzalez DJ from the first season of the show.
Discography
- Studio album
- Peep This (1994)
- Abusive (2005)
- Intuitions (2008)
- The Best Night of My Life (2010)
- Hollywood: The Lusin Rose Story (2015)
Tour
- The Unpredictable Tour (2006)
- The Blame It Tour (2009)
Special stand-alone
- Jamie Foxx: Direct from Foxxhole (1993)
- Jamie Foxx: I May Need Security (2002)
- Jamie Foxx Unleashed: Missing, Stolen, and Leaked! (2003)
Filmography
Movies
Television
Videography
Awards and nominations
Also see
- List of winners and black Golden Globe nominations
Reference
External links
- Official Jamie Foxx Music Site
- Jamie Foxx at AllMovie
- Jamie Foxx at AllMusic
- Jamie Foxx on IMDb
- Jamie Foxx in Box Office Mojo
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