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 on December 13, 1967, in Terrell, Texas.

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).

in Dreamgirls (2006), Detective Ricardo Tubbs in the 2006 film adaptation of TV series Miami Vice, Django Freeman in the film Django Unchained (2012), the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and Marvel Studios' Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Will Stacks in Annie (2014), gangster Leon 'Bats' Jefferson III in Baby Driver (2017) and as Walter McMillian in Just Mercy (2019), where he received a SAG Award nomination.įoxx is also a Grammy Award-winning musician, producing four albums, which have charted in the top ten of the U.S. 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, Foxx was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film Collateral. He subsequently 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 in a Leading Role, becoming the second actor to win all five major lead actor awards for the same performance. 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. In 1991 he joined the cast as a featured player in the sketch comedy show In Living Color until the show's end in 1994. Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, comedian, and singer.

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