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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jamie Foxx, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jamie Foxx, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Golden Globe Awards
The Graham Norton Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Oscars
MTV Video Music Awards
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Today
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Saturday Night Live
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Honest Trailers
The Daily Show
The Tyra Banks Show
The Chris Rock Show
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Kids' Choice Awards
The Grammys
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Hollywood Squares
The Jay Leno Show
The Shop
Last Call with Carson Daly
Evolution of the Black Quarterback
Today with Hoda & Jenna
Hard Knocks
Neo Yokio
The Roseanne Show
The F Word
The Masked Singer
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
Number One on the Call Sheet
White Famous
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
You're Watching Video Music Box
TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy
The Black Godfather
Toys
Valentine's Day
Rio
Horrible Bosses 2
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Horrible Bosses
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Baby Driver
Any Given Sunday
God Is a Bullet
Pixar Popcorn
The Truth About Cats & Dogs
Rio 2
Due Date
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Concert for Valor
Just Mercy
White House Down
Collateral
The Apollo
They Cloned Tyrone
Miami Vice
Annie
Robin Hood
Strays
Jarhead
The Burial
King Spawn
Law Abiding Citizen
Ray
Django Unchained
Soul
Sleepless
Dreamgirls
The Kingdom
Project Power
Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!
Back in Action
Day Shift
Production Credits
Annie
Day Shift
Million Dollar Wheels
Back in Action
They Cloned Tyrone
Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!
The Burial
Alert: Missing Persons Unit
Number One on the Call Sheet
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