1967-12-13 ( 57 years old ) in Terrell, Texas, USA

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.

Movies

Tin Soldier 2025-05-22
Back in Action 2025-01-15
The Burial 2023-10-06
Strays 2023-08-17
Day Shift 2022-08-12
Soul 2020-12-25
Project Power 2020-08-14
Just Mercy 2019-12-25
The Apollo 2019-04-24
Robin Hood 2018-11-03
Baby Driver 2017-06-28
Dying Laughing 2017-02-24
Sleepless 2017-01-12
Annie 2014-12-18
Rio 2 2014-03-19
A Man's Story 2011-10-08
Rio 2011-04-03
Due Date 2010-11-03
I'm Still Here 2010-09-10
Thunder Soul 2010-03-13
The Soloist 2009-04-24
The Kingdom 2007-08-22
Dreamgirls 2006-12-25
Miami Vice 2006-07-27
Jarhead 2005-11-04
Stealth 2005-07-27
Ray 2004-10-29
Collateral 2004-08-04
Shade 2003-05-18
Ali 2001-12-10
Bait 2000-09-15
Held Up 1999-10-08
Booty Call 1997-02-26
Toys 1992-12-18