He had a strict Baptist upbringing, and as a teenager he was a part-time pianist and choir leader in Terrell's New Hope Baptist Church. įoxx began playing the piano when he was five years old. He has often acknowledged his grandmother's influence in his life as one of the greatest reasons for his success. Foxx was raised in the black quarter of Terrell, which at the time was a racially segregated community. He has had little contact with his birth parents, who were not part of his upbringing. Shortly after his birth, Foxx was adopted and raised by his mother's adoptive parents, Esther Marie (Nelson), a domestic worker and nursery operator, and Mark Talley, a yard worker. He is the son of Darrell Bishop (renamed Shahid Abdula following his conversion to Islam), who sometimes worked as a stockbroker, and Louise Annette Talley Dixon. 2.5 2013–present: White House Down, Baby Driver, Hollywood and Project PowerĮric Marlon Bishop was born in Terrell, Texas, on December 13, 1967.2.4 2010–2012: Best Night of My Life and Django Unchained.2.2 2003–2006: Ray, Unpredictable, and Dreamgirls.2.1 1989–2003: Beginnings and acting debut.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). Following this success, Foxx was given his own television sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, in which he starred, co-created and produced, airing for five highly rated seasons from 1996 to 2001 on The WB Television Network.įoxx is also a Grammy Award-winning musician, producing four albums, which have charted in the top ten of the U.S. In 1991, Foxx joined the cast as a featured player in the sketch comedy show In Living Color until the show's end in 1994.
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in Dreamgirls (2006), Detective Ricardo Tubbs in the 2006 film adaptation of TV series Miami Vice, the title role in the film Django Unchained (2012), the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Will Stacks in Annie (2014), gangster Bats / Leon Jefferson III in Baby Driver (2017) and as Walter McMillian in Just Mercy (2019), where he received a SAG Award nomination. Other acting roles include Staff Sergeant Sykes in Jarhead (2005), record executive Curtis Taylor Jr. Since spring 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the Fox game show Beat Shazam. That same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film Collateral.
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Foxx became widely known for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film Ray, for which he won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, comedian, television presenter, and record producer.
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