Jamie Foxx

Known for ActingBorn 1967-12-13 (age 58)Terrell, Texas, USA

Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, and comedian. He gained his career breakthrough as a featured player in the sketch comedy show In Living Colour until the show's end in 1994. Following this success, he was given his own sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show, in which he starred, co-created, and produced from 1996 to 2001. Foxx received acclaim for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the film Ray (2004), winning the Academy Award, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild 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. He gained prominence for his film roles in Booty Call (1997), Ali (2001), Jarhead (2005), Dreamgirls (2006), Miami Vice (2006), Horrible Bosses (2011), Django Unchained (2012), Annie (2014), Baby Driver (2017), and Soul (2020). He played the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). For playing Walter McMillian in Just Mercy (2019), he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Foxx also embarked on a successful career as an R&B singer in the 2000s. He earned two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with his features on the singles "Slow Jamz" by Twista alongside Kanye West and "Gold Digger" by the former. His single "Blame It" won him the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Four of his five studio albums have charted in the top ten of the U.S. 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Always Whitney Houston

The Concert for Valor

It's Black Entertainment

Kids' Choice Awards

Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Rodman: For Better or Worse

Django Unchained

Soul

Luther: Never Too Much

Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!

The Grammys

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Jackie Robinson

Just Mercy

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Hard Knocks

Roc

Hitsville: The Making of Motown

Million Dollar Wheels

BET Awards

The Masked Singer

MTV Video Music Awards

Alert: Missing Persons Unit

Baby Driver

Inside the Actors Studio

Hollywood Squares

The Wages of Heroism: Making The Amazing Spider-Man 2

In Living Color

Ray

Law Abiding Citizen

Genius. A Night for Ray Charles

Jay Leno's Garage

Strays

QT8: The First Eight

jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy

The Burial

Collateral

The Graham Norton Show

Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

DJ SWB Volume 6 | This Is How We Do

Moesha

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

A Man's Story

Diary

Day Shift