He has often acknowledged his grandmother's influence in his life as one of the greatest reasons for his success. Foxx was raised in the black quarter of Terrell, which at the time was a racially segregated community. He has had little contact with his birth parents, who were not part of his upbringing. Shortly after his birth, Foxx was adopted and raised by his mother's adoptive parents, Esther Marie (Nelson), a domestic worker and nursery operator, and Mark Talley, a yard worker. He is the son of Darrell Bishop (renamed Shahid Abdula following his conversion to Islam), who sometimes worked as a stockbroker, and Louise Annette Talley Dixon.
2.5 2013–present: White House Down, Baby Driver, Hollywood, And Spawn RebootĮric Marlon Bishop was born in Terrell, Texas on December 13, 1967.2.4 2010–2012: Best Night of My Life and Django Unchained.2.2 2003–2006: Ray, Unpredictable, and Dreamgirls.2.1 1989–2003: Beginnings and acting debut.Foxx also starred in the sketch comedy show In Living Color and his own television sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show (1996–2001), in which he played Jamie King, Jr.įoxx is also a Grammy Award-winning musician, producing four albums, which have charted in the top ten of the US 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). in Dreamgirls (2006), Detective Ricardo Tubbs in the 2006 film adaptation of TV series Miami Vice, Ghetto in Fallout: Radioactive (2011), the title role in the film Django Unchained (2012), the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Will Stacks in Annie (2014), and gangster Bats / Leon Jefferson III in Baby Driver(2017). Other acting roles include Staff Sergeant Sykes in Jarhead (2005), record executive Curtis Taylor, Jr. Since spring 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the Fox game show Beat Shazam. That same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film Collateral. For his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film Ray, he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Non-fanon means if it is not fanmade or it is also canon.Įric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, songwriter, record producer, film producer, and comedian.
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