Jamie Foxx
Biography
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.
Acting (94 movies)
Jarhead
2005
Miami Vice
2006
Dreamgirls
2006
Collateral
2004
Ray
2004
Stealth
2005
The Kingdom
2007
Booty Call
1997
Law Abiding Citizen
2009
I'm Still Here
2010
Toys
1992
Ali
2001
Any Given Sunday
1999
Valentine's Day
2010
Due Date
2010
Rodman: For Better or Worse
2019
Shade
2003
Bait
2000
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
Strays
2023
Breakin' All the Rules
2004
Rio
2011
The Soloist
2009
Django Unchained
2012
Held Up
1999
You're Watching Video Music Box
2021
Horrible Bosses
2011
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
White House Down
2013
Rio 2
2014
Annie
2014
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022
Tin Soldier
2025
Back in Action
2025
Laffapalooza! #2
2004
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
Horrible Bosses 2
2014
The Concert for Valor
2014
Not Another Church Movie
2024
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
David Blaine: Real or Magic
2013
Genius. A Night for Ray Charles
2004
TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy
2024
Robin Hood
2018
Sleepless
2017
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
2012
Baby Driver
2017
American Rap Stars
2002
City of Night: The Making of 'Collateral'
2004
Jamie Foxx: I Might Need Security
2002
The Players Club
1998
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
2004
Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life
2017
Dying Laughing
2017
The Truth About Cats & Dogs
1996
The Great White Hype
1996
Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!!
2003
Thunder Soul
2010
A Man's Story
2011
Jamie Foxx: Straight from the Foxxhole
1993
Eddie Murphy: One Night Only
2012
Sesame Street: Elmo's Christmas Countdown
2007
Jamie Foxx Unleashed: Lost, Stolen and Leaked!
2003
Always Whitney Houston
2012
Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!
2017
Just Mercy
2019
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Kanye West: College Dropout [Video Anthology]
2005
The Apollo
2019
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
2019
Project Power
2020
Shaq's All Star Comedy Roast 2: Emmitt Smith
2003
The Black Godfather
2019
It's Black Entertainment
2002
Hitsville: The Making of Motown
2019
Soul
2020
The Wages of Heroism: Making The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion
2018
This Is Stand-Up
2020
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2009
Any Given Tuesday
2013
On the Shoulders of Giants
2011
They Cloned Tyrone
2023
Day Shift
2022
The Burial
2023
God Is a Bullet
2023
QT8: The First Eight
2019
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was...
2024
Jamie Foxx: Secret to Success
2022
A Motown Christmas
2024
Luther: Never Too Much
2024
Groove Tails
2025
Dad Stop Embarrassing Me - The Afterparty
2021
Being Eddie
2025
Directing (1 movie)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Jamie Foxx: Straight from the Foxxhole | 1993 | Writer |
| Jamie Foxx: I Might Need Security | 2002 | Executive Producer |
| Jamie Foxx: I Might Need Security | 2002 | Writer |
| Jamie Foxx Unleashed: Lost, Stolen and Leaked! | 2003 | Writer |
| Thunder Soul | 2010 | Executive Producer |
| Rodman: For Better or Worse | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Hip Hop Family Christmas | 2021 | Producer |
| Day Shift | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| Hip Hop Family Christmas Wedding | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| They Cloned Tyrone | 2023 | Producer |
| Story Ave | 2023 | Producer |
| The Burial | 2023 | Producer |
| Luther: Never Too Much | 2024 | Producer |
| Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was... | 2024 | Writer |
| Back in Action | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| Tin Soldier | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| Groove Tails | 2025 | Producer |
| Happy Birthday | 2025 | Producer |