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