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Jamie Foxx
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Jamie Foxx at Naval Air Station North Island prior to a premiere screening of the Stealth movie.

<tr><td style="text-align:left;">Birth name</td><td>Eric Marlon Bishop</td></tr>

Born December 13, 1967
Terrell, Texas
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Academy
 Awards 		Won: Best Actor (2004) for Ray

Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967 in Terrell, Texas), is an American Oscar-winning actor, Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling R&B singer, pianist, and comedian. He won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Ray, a biopic about the life of the late musician Ray Charles.

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[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, fictious 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

[edit] Music Career

<tr><th>Years active</th><td>1994-present</td></tr><tr><th>Genres</th><td>R&B</td></tr><tr><th>Labels</th><td>Sony BMG Music Entertainment
J Records</td></tr>

Music Career

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, which was only mildly successful. 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", also featuring 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".

Foxx received a nomination for a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance ("Creepin").

Unpredictable is Jamie Foxx's second studio release. It sold over 598,000 copies in its first week but reached the U.S. #1 spot in its 2nd week.

After debuting in the first week at No. 2, 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 No. 9. It has since been certified silver.

Foxx became the fourth artist to have won an Academy Award for acting (for his portrayal of Charles in Ray) and achieved a No. 1 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 BET Awards of 2006, Jamie 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 (Be Without You) for Video of the year.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] Filmography

Upcoming:

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

[edit] Singles

[edit] Solo Singles

Year Title Chart Positions
US Hot 100 US R&B/Hip-Hop UK Singles Chart
1994 "Infatuation"
 #92 #36 -
1994 "Experiment"
 - #88 -
2005 "Unpredictable"
(featuring Ludacris) 		#8 #2 #16
2006 "Extravaganza" [2]
(featuring Kanye West) 		- #52 #43
2006 "DJ Play A Love Song"
(featuring Twista) 		#45 #5 TBR
2006 "Can I Take U Home"
 - #48 -

[edit] Collaborations

Year Title Chart Positions
US Hot 100 US R&B/Hip-Hop UK Singles Chart
2004 "Slow Jamz"
(Twista featuring Jamie Foxx & Kanye West) 		#1
[1 Week] 		#1 #3
2005 "Gold Digger"
(with Kanye West) 		#1
[10 Weeks] 		#1
[8 Weeks] 		#2
2005 "Georgia"
(Ludacris featuring Jamie Foxx & Field Mob) 		#39 #31 —
2006 "Live In The Sky"
(T.I. featuring Jamie Foxx) 		— #76 —

[edit] Guest vocals

[edit] Album appearances

[edit] Compilation appearances

  • 2005: "Creepin'" (from So Amazing)

[edit] External links

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