Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as
Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, comedian,
television presenter, and record producer. Foxx became widely known
for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film Ray,
for which he won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award,
Critics' Choice Movie 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. Since
spring 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the
Fox game show Beat Shazam.Other acting roles include Staff Sergeant
Sykes in Jarhead (2005), record executive Curtis Taylor Jr. in
Dreamgirls (2006), Detective Ricardo Tubbs in the 2006 film adaptation
of TV series Miami Vice, the title role in the film Django Unchained
(2012), the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014),
Will Stacks in Annie (2014), gangster Bats / Leon Jefferson III in
Baby Driver (2017) and as Walter McMillian in Just Mercy (2019), where
he received a SAG Award nomination. In 1991, Foxx joined the cast as a
featured player in the sketch comedy show In Living Color until the
show's end in 1994. Following this success, Foxx was given his own
television sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, in which he starred, co-created
and produced, airing for five highly rated seasons from 1996 to 2001
on The WB Television Network.
Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, comedian,
television presenter, and record producer. Foxx became widely known
for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film Ray,
for which he won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award,
Critics' Choice Movie 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. Since
spring 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the
Fox game show Beat Shazam.Other acting roles include Staff Sergeant
Sykes in Jarhead (2005), record executive Curtis Taylor Jr. in
Dreamgirls (2006), Detective Ricardo Tubbs in the 2006 film adaptation
of TV series Miami Vice, the title role in the film Django Unchained
(2012), the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014),
Will Stacks in Annie (2014), gangster Bats / Leon Jefferson III in
Baby Driver (2017) and as Walter McMillian in Just Mercy (2019), where
he received a SAG Award nomination. In 1991, Foxx joined the cast as a
featured player in the sketch comedy show In Living Color until the
show's end in 1994. Following this success, Foxx was given his own
television sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, in which he starred, co-created
and produced, airing for five highly rated seasons from 1996 to 2001
on The WB Television Network.
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