While he continued to perform stand-up comedy in several cable specials, Foxx reached the top of his career with a defining and unforgettable performance as music legend Ray Charles in the biopic, 'Ray' (2005), which earned Foxx the best notices of his career and an Academy Award. He offered glimmers of things to come with a strong performance in 'Any Given Sunday' (1999), which allowed him to show off the gridiron prowess he developed as a star high school quarterback. Not satisfied with being confined to strictly comedy, Foxx surprised many when he began displaying considerable talents both as a dramatic actor and as a classically trained musician. In September 2007, Foxx was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2021, he released his autobiography Act Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me.First discovered by audiences as a confident, fresh-faced comic who was proficient at playing outrageous characters and sending up famous celebrities, actor Jamie Foxx cut his teeth on the small screen when he joined the popular television sketch comedy, 'In Living Color' (Fox, 1990-94) after its first season. In January 2007, Foxx started The Foxxhole channel on Sirius Satellite Radio, he hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in 2012, and in 2017, he began hosting the music game show Beat Shazam, where his oldest daughter Corinne served as the show’s DJ since its second season. He also released several albums and singles, including his 2008 hit “Blame It” with T-Pain, which won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group in 2010. In December 2005, Foxx released his second album, Unpredictable, which achieved double platinum status after it topped the Billboard 200 chart one week after debuting at #2.įoxx has appeared in several hit movies such as Dreamgirls, Django Unchained and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

He also experienced success musically with Kanye West, joining him and Twista for the #1 single “Slow Jamz” in 2003 and reprising his Ray Charles role on Kanye’s #1 single “Gold Digger” in 2005. The 2000s saw Jamie Foxx’s star rise as he portrayed music legend Ray Charles in the 2004 biopic Ray, which the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, BAFTA, Critics' Choice and Screen Actors Guild all awarded him with the Best Actor award. From 1996 to 2001, Foxx starred in his own WB sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show, and he made memorable appearances in the movies Any Given Sunday (1999) and Ali (2001) during the show’s run. Two months later, Foxx released his debut album Peep This but it didn’t generate much attention. His breakthrough came in 1991 when he joined the cast of the hit FOX comedy sketch show In Living Color, where he remained until the show’s end in May 1994. Seeing how women would get preferential treatment, he chose different unisex stage names and got the best response with Jamie Foxx, where “Foxx” was used as an homage to comedian Redd Foxx.

After high school, he was offered a scholarship to study music composition at United States International University in San Diego, California.įoxx began his comedy career in 1989 after he was dared by his girlfriend to perform at an open mic night. He began playing piano at the age of five and was a member of his local church’s choir as a teenager. One of the greatest entertainers of all time, Jamie Foxx is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer as well as an Oscar-winning actor and comedian.īorn Eric Marlon Bishop on Decemin Terrell, Texas, Foxx was raised by his mother’s adoptive parents, Estelle Marie Talley and Mark Talley.

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