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