Jamie Foxx
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 cocreated 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 SpiderMan 2 2014 and SpiderMan No Way Home 2021 and Walter McMillian in Just Mercy 2019 Foxx also embarked on a successful career as an RB singer in the 2000s He earned two numberone 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 RB Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals Four of his five studio albums have charted in the top ten of the US 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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