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Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop on December
13, 1967 in Terrell, Texas) is an United
States|American actor and musician. Foxx's early
life was peppered with difficulty. At the age of 7
months Foxx's teenaged mother was unable to take
care of him, and so he was adopted by his
grandmother (who had also adopted his mother.) He
has stated that his youth was steeped in religion
and that he earned family income early in life by
playing piano for local churches.

Foxx acted in a variety of comedic TV series
before moving on to movies.  He was a part of the
original lineup of In Living Color, with Jim
Carrey and the Wayans brothers.  Foxx was also the
star of a sitcom, titled The Jamie Foxx Show.

Foxx's film debut was in Toys (1992), but his
first prominent dramatic role was that of a star
quarterback in the 1999 Oliver Stone film Any
Given Sunday.  In the following years he worked on
several other movies, and in 2004 he received
critical acclaim for his work opposite Tom Cruise
in the action movie Collateral (movie)|Collateral.
 Also that year Foxx starred in a biographical
movie of Ray Charles, titled simply Ray
(movie)|Ray.

In recognition of his work in 2004, Foxx received
an unprecedented three Golden Globe Award
nominations in acting categories. He was nominated
for his lead role in Ray, his supporting role in
Collateral and for his portrayal of death row
inmate and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Stanley
Williams in the television movie Redemption
(film)|Redemption.

Recognition of Foxx's work continued to the
Academy Awards where his performance in Ray earned
him an Academy Award for Best Actor.  This made
him only the third African American male actor to
do so. He also received a nomination for Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting
Actor for Collateral, making him only the tenth
person to have been nominated for both acting
categories in the same year.

Foxx is also a singer.  In 2004 he was featured on
the rapper Twista's   song, "Slow Jamz", also
featuring Kanye West. The song reached No. 1 in
the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart, as well as
No. 3 on the UK singles chart.  Foxx had
previously released an album in 1994 on the Fox
record label entitled Peep This, and had hosted
the 2001 MTV MTV Video Music Awards|Video Music
Awards.

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 a casino.
Employees claimed they had failed to show
identification upon entry. Originally charged with
trespassing, disturbing the peace, battery on
police officers and resisting arrest, Foxx plead
no contest to disturbing the peace in exchange for
the other charges being dropped, and was sentenced
to community service.

During the 2005 Grammy Awards, Foxx performed live
with Alicia Keys and Quincy Jones singing "Georgia
on My Mind" in tribute to the late Ray Charles.

Jamie Foxx has contributed vocals to 50 Cent's The
Massacre album and is scheduled to record an album
on Clive Davis' J Records.

==Filmography==
*The Godfagger (1991) (documentary)
*Toys (1992)
*The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
*The Great White Hype (1996)
*Booty Call (1997)
*The Players Club (1998)
*Held Up (1999)
*Any Given Sunday (1999)
*All Jokes Aside (2000) (documentary)
*Bait (movie) (2000)
*Date from Hell (2001) (short subject)
*Ali (film)|Ali (2001)
*Shade (2003)
*Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)
*Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
*Collateral (movie)|Collateral (2004)
*Ray (movie)|Ray (2004)
*Stealth (movie)|Stealth (2005)
*Foxx's Best In Bed Series (2005)
*Jarhead (2005) (currently in post-production)
*Dreamgirls (2006) (currently in pre-production)
*Miami Vice (2006) (currently in pre-production)
*Damage Control (2007) (currently announced start
of production) (also producer)

== Discography ==

=== Albums ===
* 1994 "Peep This" #78 US

=== Hit singles ===

* 2004 "Slow Jamz" (Twista feat. Kanye West and
Jamie Foxx) #1 US, #3 UK
* 2005 "Gold Digger" (Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx)
#47 US

==External link==
*imdb name | id=0004937 | name=Jamie Foxx
*http://www.westlord.com/jamiefoxx/eng-home.html
Jamie Foxx Website at WestLord