Name: Jamie Foxx

Birth Name: Eric Morlon Bishop

Birthdate: Dec. 13, 1967

Birthplace: Terrell, Texas

Foxx worked the stand-up comedy circuit for years before finally getting his break on the sketch-comedy show In Living Color in 1990. His popularity soared with wacky characters like way-ugly Wanda, helping Foxx score his own sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show, on the WB in 1996. Film roles in Booty Call, The Players Club and Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday soon followed. It was his turn as blind musician Ray Charles in 2004's Ray, however, that made this Texan comic into a Hollywood superstar. Foxx won every major acting award he was nominated for that year, including a Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Actor honors. That same year, Foxx was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Collateral. Foxx is squarely among the A-list now, landing roles in both credible dramas (2005's Jarhead) and bankable (2006's Miami Vice).


1. He released a music album in 1994 called Peep This.
2. Foxx was a talented football quarterback in high school.
3. The prolific musician attended Juilliard, where he studied classical piano.
4. His favorite song is "Do Me, Baby" by Prince.
5. He was the first African-American to be nominated for two Oscars in the same year.



On getting into character: "I like to go do it, flip it on like a light switch and then flip it off. Then, when we come back in the next morning I flip it back on. That's what keeps things fresh for me."


Daughter: Corrine, born 1995

2005: Academy Award: Best Actor, Ray; Academy Award nomination: Best Supporting Actor, Collateral; Golden Globe: Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama), Ray; Golden Globe nomination: Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama), Collateral; Golden Globe nomination: Best Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television, Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

 

FILMS

The Kingdom - (2007) - Actor
Miami Vice - (2006) - Actor
Laffapalooza! #8 - (2006) - Actor
Dreamgirls - (2006) - Actor
Laffapalooza! #5 - (2005) - Actor
The Best of V.I.P. Access - (2005) - Featured
Stealth - (2005) - Actor
Laffapalooza! #7 - (2005) - Actor
Stealth/XXX - State of the Union - (2005) - Actor
Jarhead - (2005) - Actor
Shade - (2004) - Actor
In Living Color - Season 2 - (2004) - Actor
Laffapalooza! #4 - (2004) - Actor
Ray - (2004) - Actor
Foxx Boxx - (2004) - Actor
Richard Pryor - I Ain't Dead Yet #%$#@!! Uncensored - (2004) - Featured
Laffapalooza! # 3 - (2004) - Actor
Breakin' All the Rules - (2004) - Actor
Laffapalooza! #2 - (2004) - Host
Shaq's All Star Comedy Roast II: Emmitt Smith - (2003) - Actor
Laffapalooza! #1 - (2003) - Host
Alex Thomas: Straight Clownin' - (2002) - Featured
Jamie Foxx Unleashed: Lost Stolen and Leaked! - (2002) - Actor
Best of Def Comedy Jam, The - Collection Box Set 1: Volumes 1-6 - (2002) - Featured
Ali - (2001) - Actor
Jamie Foxx: I Might Need Security - (2001) - Actor
Held Up - (2000) - Actor
Bait - (2000) - Actor
Any Given Sunday - (1999) - Actor
All Jokes Aside - (1999) - Actor
The Players Club - (1998) - Actor
Booty Call - (1997) - Actor
The Truth About Cats and Dogs - (1996) - Actor
Jamie Foxx - Straight From the Foxxhole - (1993) - Actor