| Jamie Foxx | |
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 Jamie Foxx on the set of Stealth |
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| Birth name | Eric Marlon Bishop |
| Born | December 13 1967 Terrell, Texas, United States |
Jamie Foxx (born December 13 1967) is an American actor, singer, and stand-up comic. Foxx is possibly best known for his portrayal of musician Ray Charles in Ray, and for his collaborations with director Michael Mann. With Ray, he became one of the few African-Americans to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Jamie studied at Juilliard and San Diego's United States International University in music. Foxx received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on September 14 2007.
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Life and career
Foxx was born Eric Marlon Bishop in Dallas, Texas, the son of Louise Annette Talley Dixon and Darrell Bishop, who sometimes worked as a stockbroker and changed his name to Shahid Abdula after converting to Islam.[1][2] Shortly after his birth, Foxx was adopted and raised by his mother's adoptive parents, Esther[3] Marie (née Nelson), a domestic worker and nursery operator, and Mark Talley, a yard worker.[2][4][3] He has had little contact with his birth parents, who were not part of his upbringing.[1] Foxx was raised in the black quarter of Terrell, Texas at the time a racially segregated community.[1] (In The Kingdom, Foxx makes reference to Terrell.) He had a strict Baptist upbringing.[4][5] He has frequently cited his adoptive grandmother's influence on his life.[4][6] At his grandmother's urging, Foxx began piano lessons at age five. He went on to play for church groups in Terrell, and studied classical music in college. He also played football (quarterback) at Terrell High School.[7] Foxx changed his name while doing stand up once he found out that female comedians were often called first to perform. He felt Jamie Foxx was an ambiguous enough name to disallow any biases.[8] His last name was chosen as a tribute to Redd Foxx.
In Living Color
After a small part on the TV series Roc, Foxx joined the cast of In Living Color in 1991.[4] 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.
Acting career
Foxx's first dramatic role came in Oliver Stone's 1999 film Any Given Sunday, where he played a heavy-partying football player.[4] He was cast in the role in part because of his background as a football player.[4] Foxx 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.[4] His standout performance, however, was his portrayal of Ray Charles in the biopic Ray (2004), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.[4] Foxx is the only 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 2005, Foxx was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[9] Following this success, Foxx appeared in three more movies: Jarhead, Miami Vice, and Dreamgirls which were hits at the box office and lifted Foxx even higher as a bankable star in Hollywood. 2007 brought him the lead role in the film The Kingdom, opposite Chris Cooper and Jennifer Garner. In September 2007, Foxx was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He said, upon receiving the honor, "[it was] one of the most amazing days of my life."[10]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Toys | Baker | |
| 1996 | The Truth About Cats & Dogs | Ed | |
| The Great White Hype | Hassan El Ruk'n | ||
| 1997 | Booty Call | Bunz | |
| The Players Club | Blue | ||
| 1999 | Held Up | Michael | |
| Any Given Sunday | Willie Beamen | ||
| 2000 | Bait | Alvin Sanders | |
| 2001 | Date from Hell | ||
| Ali | Drew 'Bundini' Brown | ||
| 2003 | Shade | Larry Jennings | |
| 2004 | Breakin' All the Rules | Quincy Watson | |
| Collateral | Max | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nominee | |
| Ray | Ray Charles | Academy Award for Best Actor | |
| 2005 | Stealth | Lt. Henry Purcell | |
| Jarhead | Staff Sgt. Sykes | ||
| 2006 | Miami Vice | Ricardo Tubbs | |
| Dreamgirls | Curtis Taylor, Jr. | ||
| 2007 | The Kingdom | Ronald Fleury | |
| 2009 | The Soloist |
Film awards
- Academy Awards
- 2005, Best Actor: Ray
- 2005, Best Supporting Actor: Collateral (nominated)
- BAFTA Awards
- 2005, Best Actor: Ray
- 2005, Best Supporting Actor: Collateral (nominated)
- BET Awards
- 2007, Best Actor: Dreamgirls (nominated)
- 2006, Best Actor: (nominated)
- 2005, Best Actor: Ray
- Black Movie Awards
- 2006, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture: Jarhead (nominated)
- Black Reel Awards
- 2007, Best Actor: Dreamgirls (nominated)
- 2005, Best Actor (Drama): Ray
- 2005, Best Actor (Network/Cable): Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
- 2005, Best Supporting Actor: Collateral
- 2005, Best Actor (Musical/Comedy): Breaking All the Rulez (nominated)
- 2002, Best Supporting Actor: Ali
- 2000, Best Supporting Actor: Any Given Sunday (nominated)
- Boston Society of Film Critics
- 2004, Best Actor: Ray
- Broadcast Film Critics
- 2005, Best Actor: Ray
- 2005, Best Supporting Actor: Collateral (nominated)
- Florida Film Critics
- 2004, Best Actor: Ray
- Golden Globes
- 2005, Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy: Ray
- 2005, Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture: Collateral (nominated)
- 2005, Best Actor in a Television/Mini-Series: Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (nominated)
- Image Awards
- 2007, Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture: Dreamgirls (nominated)
- 2006, Outstanding Male Artist
- 2005, Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture: Ray
- 2005, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture: Collateral (nominated)
- 2005, Outstanding Actor in a Mini-Series/Television Movie: Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
- 2002, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture: Ali
- 2001, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: The Jamie Foxx Show (nominated)
- 2000, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: The Jamie Foxx Show (nominated)
- 1999, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: The Jamie Foxx Show (nominated)
- 1998, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: The Jamie Foxx Show
- Independent Spirit Awards
- 2005, Best Male Lead: Redemption: The Stan Tookie Wiliams Story (nominated)
- Kansas City Film Critics
- 2005, Best Actor: Ray
- MTV Movie Awards
- 2005, Best Male Performance: Ray (nominated)
- 2005, Best Breakthrough Male Performance: Any Given Sunday (nominated)
Music career
Foxx is a Grammy-nominated singer and accomplished musician. He began piano lessons at age five, 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 Kanye West's song, "Slow Jamz", which also featured Twista. 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. 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. Debuting 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 Platinum. 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 with 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 December 8 2006, 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 2007, Foxx was on Sirius Satellite Radio, announcing his new "Foxxhole" channel. Foxx recorded a song with country superstars Rascal Flatts entitled "She Goes All The Way" for their album, "Still Feels Good".
Music awards
- American Music Awards
- 2006, Favorite R&B/Soul Male Artist
- 2006, Favorite R&B/Soul Album: "Unpredictable" (nominated)
- MOBO Awards
- 2006, Best R&B Act (nominated)
- MTV Video Music Awards
- 2006, Best Hip-Hop Video: "Gold Digger" with Kanye West (nominated)
- 2006, Best Ringtone: "Gold Digger" with Kanye West (nominated)
- 2006, Best R&B Video: "Unpredictable" featuring Ludacris (nominated)
- 2004, MTV2 Award: "Slow Jams" with Twista & Kanye West (nominated)
- Soul Train Awards
- 2007, Best R&B/Soul Album, Male: Unpredictable
- 2006, Best Music Video: "Gold Digger" with Kanye West
- 2006, Best R&B/Soul Dance Cut: "Gold Digger" with Kanye West (nominated)
- Vibe Awards
- 2005, Best Collabo: "Gold Digger" with Kanye West (nominated)
- 2004, Best Collabo: "Slow Jams" with Twista & Kanye West (nominated)
Discography
References
- ^ a b c Rader, Dotson. Jamie Foxx. Timesonline.co.uk. 20 November 2005.
- ^ a b Jamie Foxx Biography.
- ^ a b "Oscar's Golden Foxx." Washingtonpost.com. 27 February 2005.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Inside the Actors Studio. Jamie Foxx, Season 11, Episode 1104. 28 November 2004.
- ^ Triple Golden Globe Nominee Jamie Foxx is Cathrine Hughes' Special Guest on "TV One On One." 11 January 2005.
- ^ http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-12-20-foxx_x.htm
- ^ Cohen, Sandy. Deseret Morning News, "Youth spent in church tickled Foxx's funny bone.". 30 September 2007, page E16. Associated Press
- ^ "Jamie Foxx Honored With Walk Of Fame Star." CBS 2 - KCAL 9. 14 September 2007.
- ^ Academy Invites 112 to Membership. Oscars.org. 24 June 2005.
- ^ "Jamie Foxx gets Walk of Fame star". BBC News. 15 September 2007.
^ a b c Rader, Dotson. Jamie Foxx. Timesonline.co.uk. 20 November 2005. ^ a b Jamie Foxx Biography. ^ a b "Oscar's Golden Foxx." Washingtonpost.com. 27 February 2005. ^ a b c d e f g h Inside the Actors Studio. Jamie Foxx, Season 11, Episode 1104. 28 November 2004. ^ Triple Golden Globe Nominee Jamie Foxx is Cathrine Hughes' Special Guest on "TV One On One." 11 January 2005. ^ http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-12-20-foxx_x.htm ^ Cohen, Sandy. Deseret Morning News, "Youth spent in church tickled Foxx's funny bone.". 30 September 2007, page E16. Associated Press ^ "Jamie Foxx Honored With Walk Of Fame Star." CBS 2 - KCAL 9. 14 September 2007. ^ Academy Invites 112 to Membership. Oscars.org. 24 June 2005. ^ "Jamie Foxx gets Walk of Fame star". BBC News. 15 September 2007. ^ Artist Chart Positions. Billboard. Accessed November 8, 2007 ^ a b [[1]].www.bet.com
External links
- Jamie Foxx at the Internet Movie Database
- Jamie Foxx discography at MusicBrainz
- Jamie Foxx Official Site
- Jamie Foxx on Myspace
- Jamie Foxx Official UK Site
- Jamie-Foxx.US Fansite
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