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Jamie Foxx
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Eric Marlon Bishop, 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.
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Eric Marlon Bishop, 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.
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Golden Globe Awards
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Today
Saturday Night Live
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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
Number One on the Call Sheet
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
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
The Oscars
TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy
MTV Video Music Awards
Toys
The Black Godfather
Rio
Valentine's Day
Horrible Bosses 2
Horrible Bosses
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Spider-Man: No Way Home
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
Pixar Popcorn
Any Given Sunday
God Is a Bullet
Baby Driver
Rio 2
The Truth About Cats & Dogs
Due Date
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Just Mercy
The Concert for Valor
Collateral
Robin Hood
Strays
They Cloned Tyrone
Tin Soldier
Jarhead
Miami Vice
The Apollo
White House Down
The Burial
Annie
Soul
The Kingdom
Ray
Django Unchained
Project Power
Day Shift
Dreamgirls
Back in Action
Law Abiding Citizen
Sleepless
Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!
King Spawn
Production Credits
They Cloned Tyrone
The Burial
Number One on the Call Sheet
Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!
Million Dollar Wheels
Tin Soldier
Annie
Day Shift
Back in Action
Alert: Missing Persons Unit
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