
Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, stand-up comedian, and talk radio host. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical/comedy. He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing two albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, and Intuition. Foxx was abandoned seven months after birth, and was subsequently adopted and raised in Terrell by his mother's adoptive parents, Estelle and Mark Talley. Foxx had a strict Baptist upbringing and began piano lessons at the age of five by his grandmother's orders. He has often acknowledged his grandmother's influence in his life as one of the greatest reasons for his success. 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. He chose his surname as a tribute to comedian Redd Foxx. From 1996 to 2001, Foxx starred in his own sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, and in 1992 he made his film debut in Toys a comedy directed by Barry Levinson. Following Toys, his first dramatic role came in Oliver Stone's 1999 film Any Given Sunday, where he portrayed a hard-partying American football player. Foxx has since evolved into a respected dramatic actor. 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. 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 and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Foxx is the second male in history to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the same year for two different movies, Collateral and Ray. In September 2007, Foxx was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Film | Spawn | Albert Francis "Al" Simmons / Spawn | 2020 |
Film | All-Star Weekend | Malik / Xavier | 2020 |
Film | Kane & Lynch | Lynch | 2019 |
Film | Robin Hood | Little John | 2018-11-21 |
Film | Sleepless | Vincent Downs | 2017-01-12 |
Film | Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life | Himself | 2017-06-08 |
Film | Dying Laughing | Himself | 2017-02-24 |
Film | Baby Driver | Leon "Bats" Jefferson III | 2017-06-28 |
Serial | Jamie Foxx: Straight from the Foxxhole | Unknown | 2016 |
Serial | Jamie Foxx: I Might Need Security | Unknown | 2016 |
Film | Jackie Robinson | Jackie Robinson (Voice) | 2016-04-11 |
Film | Annie | William "Will" Stacks | 2014-12-19 |
Film | Horrible Bosses 2 | Dean "MF" Jones | 2014-11-26 |
Film | Rio 2 | Nico (voice) | 2014-03-19 |
Film | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Max Dillon / Electro | 2014-04-16 |
Film | A Million Ways to Die in the West | Django (uncredited) | 2014-05-22 |
Film | The Concert for Valor | Himself | 2014-11-11 |
Film | David Blaine: Real or Magic | Himself | 2013-11-19 |
Film | White House Down | President James Sawyer | 2013-06-27 |
Serial | Circus Halligalli | Unknown | 2013-02-25 |
Film | Eddie Murphy: One Night Only | Himself | 2012-11-14 |
Film | Always Whitney Houston | 2012-01-01 | |
Film | Django Unchained | Django Freeman | 2012-12-25 |
Film | A Man's Story | Himself | 2011-10-08 |
Film | Horrible Bosses | Motherfucker Jones | 2011-07-08 |
Film | Rio | Nico (voice) | 2011-04-03 |
Film | Thunder Soul | 2010-03-13 | |
Film | Plies: Goon In the Trap | 2010-02-09 | |
Film | Valentine's Day | Kelvin Moore | 2010-02-10 |
Film | I'm Still Here | Himself | 2010-09-10 |
Film | Due Date | Darryl | 2010-11-04 |
Film | Law Abiding Citizen | Nick Rice | 2009-10-15 |
Film | DJ Juice - The King is Back Mixtape Blend Dvd Vol. 70 | 2009-07-06 | |
Film | Mistarello Presents: Hard Body Blends Volume 4 | 2009-05-27 | |
Film | The Soloist | Nathaniel Ayers | 2009-04-24 |
Film | DJ SWB Volume 6 - This Is How We Do | 2009-02-09 | |
Film | Sesame Street: Elmo's Christmas Countdown | Himself | 2007-12-23 |
Film | The Kingdom | Ronald Fleury | 2007-08-22 |
Film | Dreamgirls | Curtis Taylor Jr. | 2006-12-25 |
Film | Miami Vice | Detective Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs | 2006-07-27 |
Film | Jarhead | Staff Sgt. Sykes | 2005-11-04 |
Serial | The Tyra Banks Show | Unknown | 2005-09-12 |
Film | Stealth | Lt. Henry Purcell | 2005-07-27 |
Film | Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story | 2004-03-03 | |
Film | Breakin' All the Rules | Quincy Watson | 2004-05-14 |
Film | Genius. A Night for Ray Charles | Himself | 2004-10-07 |
Film | Ray | Ray Charles | 2004-10-29 |
Film | Collateral | Max Durocher | 2004-08-04 |
Serial | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
Film | Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!! | 2003-01-01 | |
Film | Jamie Foxx Unleashed: Lost, Stolen and Leaked! | 2003-03-25 | |
Film | Shade | Larry Jennings | 2003-05-18 |
Serial | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Unknown | 2003-09-08 |
Film | Jamie Foxx: I Might Need Security | 2002-02-23 | |
Serial | BET Awards | Unknown | 2001-06-19 |
Serial | Hard Knocks | Unknown | 2001-08-01 |
Film | Ali | Drew 'Bundini' Brown | 2001-12-11 |
Film | Bait | Alvin Sanders | 2000-09-14 |
Serial | 106 & Park | Unknown | 2000-09-11 |
Film | Held Up | Michael | 1999-10-08 |
Film | Any Given Sunday | Willie Beamen | 1999-12-16 |
Serial | TRL | Unknown | 1998-09-14 |
Film | The Players Club | 1998-04-08 | |
Serial | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
Film | Booty Call | Bunz | 1997-02-26 |
Serial | Moesha | Unknown | 1996-01-23 |
Film | The Truth About Cats & Dogs | 1996-04-26 | |
Serial | The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
Serial | The Jamie Foxx Show | Jamie King | 1996-08-28 |
Film | The Great White Hype | 1996-05-03 | |
Serial | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-06-01 |
Film | Jamie Foxx: Straight from the Foxxhole | 1993-01-01 | |
Serial | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
Film | Toys | Baker | 1992-12-18 |
Serial | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
Serial | In Living Color | 1990-04-15 | |
Serial | MTV Video Music Awards | Host - Himself | 1984-09-14 |
Serial | Live with Regis and Kathie Lee | Unknown | 1983-04-04 |
Serial | Wanna bet, that..? | Unknown | 1981-02-14 |
Serial | Saturday Night Live | Unknown | 1975-10-11 |
Serial | The Grammy Awards | Unknown | 1959-05-04 |
Serial | The Academy Awards | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |
Serial | Today | Unknown | 1952-01-14 |
Serial | Golden Globe Awards | Unknown | 1944-01-20 |