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Academy Awards
Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx in the Navy
Birth name	Eric Marlon Bishop
Born	December 13, 1967 (age 39) Terrell, Texas, USA
Notable roles	Ray Charles in Ray Max Durocher in Collateral Willie Beaman in Any Given Sunday

Best Actor 2004 Ray
Golden Globe Awards

Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy 2005 Ray
BAFTA Awards

Best Actor in a Leading Role 2004 Ray

Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967) is an American actor, R&B singer, pianist, and comedian. Foxx won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Ray, a biopic about the life of musician Ray Charles. As such, he is the third African-American in history to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.

[edit] Personal

He came to Los Angeles in the late 1980s to start a music career. He released an album in 1994, called Peep This and later sang the theme for Any Given Sunday. Even as he pursued a music career, Foxx did stand-up at comedy clubs, mostly on open-mic nights. On his name: "I wrote down all these unisex names at this comedy place because they would always choose the girls to go up... So I wrote down Stacy King, Tracy Brown, Jamie Foxx... And they picked Jamie Foxx. I stood up, had a great night and that's how the name stuck." In California, he won the 1991 Oakland Comedy Competition and then joined the cast of In Living Color, which at the time starred Keenen Ivory Wayans.

In 1995, his daughter Corrine Marie Bishop was born. Corrine was Foxx's date to the 2005 Academy Awards.

His first dramatic role came in Oliver Stone's 1999 film Any Given Sunday, where Foxx played a heavy-partying football player. Considering his athletic background, it wasn't much of a stretch. He has since evolved into a respected dramatic actor. Following Any Given Sunday, Foxx was featured as taxi driver Max Durocher in the film Collateral alongside Tom Cruise, for which he received outstanding reviews and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His real standout performance, however, was his portrayal of Ray Charles in the biopic Ray (2004), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Foxx is only the second male, and the first African American, in history to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the same year for two different movies, Collateral and Ray. The only other male actor to achieve this was Al Pacino.

In Miami Vice, Foxx was characterized as unpleasant to work with, mostly due to his ego. Foxx refused to fly commercially, forcing Universal to give him a private jet. Foxx would not participate in scenes on boats or planes. After gunshots were fired on set in the Dominican Republic on October 24, 2005, Foxx packed up and refused to return; this forced Mann to re-write the ending of the film, an ending that some crew members characterized as less dramatic than the original.^[1] Foxx, who won an Academy Award after signing to do Miami Vice, was also reputed to complain about co-star Farrell's larger salary, something Foxx felt didn't reflect his new status as an Oscar winner. Foxx received an increase in salary to match Farrell's. It was also reported that Foxx demanded top billing after winning an Oscar. ^[1]

[edit] In Living Color

Foxx joined the cast of In Living Color in 1991. Here he won over viewers with many unusual characters and impressions, which included: ugly girl Wanda; fictitious boxer, Carl "The Tooth" Williams; and The Dirty Dozens champion T-Dog Jenkins. His impersonation of Garrett Morris would eventually find him starring against the former Saturday Night Live cast member in his sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show.

[edit] Characters

Ace
Carl "The Tooth" Williams
Cornbread Turner (Duke)
T-Dog Jenkins (The Dirty Dozens)
Tyrone (The Dysfunctional Home Show)
Wanda

[edit] Impressions

All impressions were on "In Living Color" (unless otherwise noted)

Arsenio Hall
Bill Cosby
Don King
Eddie Murphy
Garrett Morris
Jaleel White
James Brown
Johnny Gill
JoJo
Lionel Richie
Stevie Wonder (when he hosted SNL)
Louis Farrakhan
Martin Luther King, Jr. (when he hosted SNL)
Martin Lawrence
Mike Tyson
Prince
Sean "Diddy" Combs (when he hosted SNL)
Shaquille O'Neal
Sir Mix-A-Lot
Snoop Dogg
Tito Jackson
Tony Blair (in an episode of Chappelle's Show)
Coko Beware

[edit] Music career

Jamie Foxx
Background information
Genre(s)	R&B Hip-hop
Instrument(s)	Keyboard
Years active	1994–present
Label(s)	Sony BMG, J
Website	[1]

Jamie Foxx is a singer and accomplished musician. He started playing piano at a young age, and later took classical piano lessons while attending college. In 1994, Foxx released an album (on the FOX record label) entitled Peep This. In 2001, he hosted the MTV Video Music Awards.

His music career went into a higher gear when, in 2004, he was featured on rapper Twista's song, "Slow Jamz", which also featured Kanye West. The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart, as well as number three on the UK singles chart. Foxx's second collaboration with Kanye West, "Gold Digger", in which he sang the "I Got a Woman" Ray Charles-influenced hook, went straight to #1 on the Billboard Top 100, and remained there for 10 weeks straight. In 2005, Foxx was featured on the hit single "Georgia" by Atlanta rappers Ludacris and Field Mob. The song sampled Ray Charles' hit "Georgia on My Mind".

Unpredictable is Jamie Foxx's second studio release. It sold over 598,000 copies in its first week but reached the U.S. number one spot in its 2nd week.

After debuting in the first week at number two, Unpredictable rose to the top of the Billboard pop album chart, with 2nd-week sales of 200,000 copies in the United States. The album also charted in the UK top 10 album chart, peaking at number nine. It has since been certified silver.

Foxx became the fourth artist to have won an Academy Award for acting and to have achieved a number-one record album in the US. (The other three to accomplish this feat were Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Barbra Streisand.) Foxx's first single from the album, the title track, "Unpredictable" (featuring Ludacris) samples "WildFlower" by New Birth. The song peaked inside the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and also made the UK top 20 singles chart. The second US single from the album was "DJ Play A Love Song", which reunited Foxx with Twista. In the UK, however, the second single was "Extravaganza", which saw Foxx once again collaborate with Kanye West. He was not, however, featured in the song's music video.

At the 2006 BET Awards , Foxx won two awards: Best Duet/ Collaboration w/ Kanye West for "Gold Digger" and Video of the Year for the same video. Kanye's video tied with Mary J. Blige's (Be Without You) for Video of the year.

On 8 Dec 06, Foxx received a 4 Grammy nominations:

Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for Love Changes feat Mary J. Blige.
Best R&B Album for Unpredictable.
Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for Georgia by Ludacris & Field Mob feat Jamie Foxx.
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for Unpredictable feat Ludacris.

On January 22, Jamie Foxx was on Sirius Satellite Radio, announcing his new "Foxxhole" channel.

[edit] Trivia

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No relation to Redd Foxx whose real name was John Sanford. However, Jamie used the last name Foxx as a tribute to Sanford.
His selection for the title role in Ray was personally approved by Ray Charles himself. Charles had helped train Foxx in understanding his process at the piano.
Hosted Saturday Night Live's first episode of the year 2000 (January 8, 2000). The musical guest was pop-punk band Blink-182.
While hosting SNL, Foxx impersonated Martin Luther King, Jr., Stevie Wonder (on a Weekend Update segment about Stevie Wonder's surgery to correct his vision and realizing how ugly everything is when he finally can see), and Puff Daddy.
He had a very minor role as a soldier in Eddie Murphy's 1988 comedy motion picture, Coming to America.
He claims in a comedic way that he was the person who covered Janet Jackson's breast in a semi-nude photo shoot including his own nude photo with his genitalia covered by "Michael Jackson's" hand. The photos he presented in MTV Icon are obviously digitally edited. The special does not repeat anymore due to the Jackson trial.
Cousin of Michael Bishop, a quarterback in the Arena Football League and Canadian Football League with the Chicago Rush and the Toronto Argonauts respectively.
Jamie Foxx is listed as an alumnus of Alliant International University
In April of 2003 Foxx was involved in an incident with two police officers who were attempting to escort him and his sister out of Harrah's casino in New Orleans. Employees claimed they had failed to show identification upon entry. [2] Originally charged with trespassing, disturbing the peace, battery on police officers and resisting arrest, Foxx pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace in exchange for the other charges being dropped, and was sentenced to community service.
In the Kid N' Play movie House Party 3 Foxx plays one of the members of Ras Posse
He is the first person to have been nominated for three acting awards at the Golden Globes in the same year.
Has joked on his Unpredictable show that he "didn't" like kissing co-star Beyonce Knowles because he kept on thinking how she was Jay-Z's girl and when they did do the on-screen kiss, 'Jiggg-aahh!' was going through the back of his mind the whole time
Foxx plays for the Kings in the NBA Entertainment League.[3]
On February 11, 2007, Jamie Foxx opened the 2007 Grammies with a joke about The Police, Snoop Dog, and the crip walk that was met with a cold welcome from the audience. It appeared that he was going to go into a longer comedic monologue for a moment but froze up as if he was receiving instructions to stop.

[edit] Awards and Nominations

[edit] Academy Award

Nominated: Best Supporting Actor, Collateral (2004)
Won: Best Actor, Ray (2004)

[edit] BAFTA Award

Nominated: Best Supporting Actor, Collateral (2005)
Won: Best Actor, Ray (2005)

[edit] Golden Globe Award

Nominated: Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture Collateral (2005)
Nominated: Best Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television, Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2005)
Won: Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy Ray (2005)

[edit] Filmography

Year	Movie	Role	Other Notes
1988	Coming To America	(extra, name not listed in credits)
1992	Toys	Baker
1993	Straight from the Foxxhole
1996	The Truth About Cats & Dogs	Ed
1996	The Great White Hype	Hassan El Ruk'n
1997	Booty Call	Bunz
1998	The Players Club	Blue
1999	Held Up	Michael
1999	Any Given Sunday	Willie Beamen
2000	All Jokes Aside	Himself
2000	Bait	Alvin Sanders
2001	Ali	Drew 'Bundini' Brown
2002	I Might Need Security	Himself
2003	Shade	Larry Jennings
2004	Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story	Stan 'Tookie' Williams
2004	Breakin' All the Rules	Quincy Watson
2004	Collateral	Max	Academy Award nomination for Performance by an actor in a supporting role
2004	Ray	Ray Charles	Academy Award for Performance by an actor in a leading role
2005	Stealth	Lt. Henry Purcell
2005	Jarhead	Staff Sgt. Sykes
2006	Miami Vice	Det. Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs
2006	Dreamgirls	Curtis Taylor, Jr	Image Award and Black Reel Award nomination.
Upcoming:
2007	The Kingdom	Ronald Fluery
2007	Damage Control
2007	The Ski Mask Way
TBD	The Power of Duff		(rumored)

Awards
Preceded by Sean Penn for Mystic River	Academy Award for Best Actor 2004 for Ray	Succeeded by Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Album cover	Album information
	Peep This Released: July 19, 1994 Chart Positions: #78 U.S. U.S. certification: N/A U.S. Sales: Worldwide sales: 200,000
	Unpredictable Released: December 20, 2005 Chart Positions: #1 U.S., #9 UK U.S. certification: 2x Platinum Worldwide sales: 3 million

[edit] Singles

[edit] As lead artist

Year	Song	U.S. Hot 100	U.S. R&B	UK singles	Album
1994	"Infatuation"	94	36	-	Peep This
1994	"Experiment"	-	88	-	Peep This
2004	"Unpredictable" (featuring Ludacris)	8	1	16	Unpredictable
2004	"Extravaganza" (featuring Kanye West)	-	52	43	Unpredictable
2005	"DJ Play a Love Song" (featuring Twista)	45	5	-	Unpredictable
2006	"Can I Take U Home"	-	48	-	Unpredictable

[edit] Collaborations

Year	Song	U.S. Hot 100	U.S. R&B	UK singles	Album
2004	"Slow Jamz" (Twista featuring Jamie Foxx and Kanye West)	1	1	3	Kamikaze / The College Dropout
2005	"Gold Digger" (Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx)	1	1	2	Late Registration
2005	"Georgia" (Ludacris featuring Jamie Foxx and Field Mob)	39	31	-	Light Poles and Pine Trees
2006	"Live in the Sky" (T.I. featuring Jamie Foxx)	-	76	-	King

[edit] Guest Vocals

[edit] Album appearances

1998: Adina Howard, "T-Shirt And My Panties On" (from the album Woo: Music From The Motion Picture)
2002: Busta Rhymes, "Pass the Courvoursier" (from the album Genesis)
2003: MC Lyte, "Where Home Is" (from the album Da Undaground Heat, Vol. 1)
2004: Twista, "Slow Jamz" (from the album Kamikaze)
2005: 50 Cent, "Build You Up" (from the album The Massacre)
2005: Kanye West, "Gold Digger" (from the album Late Registration)
2005: Twista, "When I Get You Home" (from the album The Day After)
2005: DTP, "Georgia" (from the album Disturbing tha Peace)
2005: Loon, "No I Aint Gangsta (from the album Loon)
2006: T.I., "Live In The Sky" (from the album King)
2006: LL Cool J, "Best Dress" (from the album Todd Smith)
2006: Diddy, "Partners For Life" (from the album Press Play)
2006: The Game, "Around The World" (from the album Doctor's Advocate)
2006: Snoop Dogg, "Psst!!" (from the album Tha Blue Carpet Treatment}

[edit] Compilation appearances

2005: "Creepin'" (from So Amazing)

[edit] External Links

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