Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, stand-up comedian, and talk radio host. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical/comedy. He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing two albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, and Intuition. Foxx was abandoned seven months after birth, and was subsequently adopted and raised in Terrell by his mother's adoptive parents, Estelle and Mark Talley. Foxx had a strict Baptist upbringing and began piano lessons at the age of five by his grandmother's orders. He has often acknowledged his grandmother's influence in his life as one of the greatest reasons for his success. When he found that female comedians were often called first to perform, he changed his name to Jamie Foxx, feeling that it was an ambiguous enough name to disallow any biases. He chose his surname as a tribute to comedian Redd Foxx. From 1996 to 2001, Foxx starred in his own sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, and in 1992 he made his film debut in Toys a comedy directed by Barry Levinson. Following Toys, his first dramatic role came in Oliver Stone's 1999 film Any Given Sunday, where he portrayed a hard-partying American football player. Foxx has since evolved into a respected dramatic actor. 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 standout performance, however, was his portrayal of Ray Charles in the biopic Ray (2004), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Foxx is the second male in history to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the same year for two different movies, Collateral and Ray. In September 2007, Foxx was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Movie | Not Another Church Movie | God | 2025 |
Movie | All-Star Weekend | Malik / Xavier / Cleveland A. Smith | 2025 |
Movie | Spawn | Albert Francis 'Al' Simmons / Spawn | 2025 |
Movie | Tin Soldier | The Bokushi | 2024-09-12 |
Movie | God Is a Bullet | The Ferryman | 2023-06-22 |
Movie | The Burial | Willie E. Gary | 2023-10-06 |
Movie | Strays | Bug (voice) | 2023-08-17 |
Movie | They Cloned Tyrone | Slick Charles | 2023-06-14 |
Series | jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy | Self (Archival Footage) | 2022-02-16 |
Movie | Day Shift | Bud Jablonski | 2022-08-12 |
Movie | 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Self | 2022-11-19 |
Movie | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Max Dillon / Electro | 2021-12-15 |
Series | Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! | Brian Dixon | 2021-04-14 |
Movie | 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Self | 2021-11-20 |
Movie | You're Watching Video Music Box | Self (archive footage) | 2021-12-03 |
Movie | Project Power | Art | 2020-08-14 |
Movie | Soul | Joe Gardner (voice) | 2020-12-25 |
Movie | This Is Stand-Up | Self | 2020-04-12 |
Movie | QT8: The First Eight | Self | 2019-10-21 |
Movie | Just Mercy | Walter McMillian | 2019-12-25 |
Movie | The Black Godfather | Self | 2019-06-07 |
Movie | Rodman: For Better or Worse | Narrator (voice) | 2019-09-01 |
Movie | Hitsville: The Making of Motown | Self | 2019-08-24 |
Movie | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" | George Jefferson | 2019-05-22 |
Movie | Robin Hood | Yahya / John | 2018-11-21 |
Series | Beat Shazam | Himself - Host | 2017-05-25 |
Movie | Sleepless | Vincent Downs | 2017-01-12 |
Movie | Dying Laughing | Himself | 2017-02-24 |
Series | White Famous | Jamie Foxx | 2017-10-15 |
Movie | Baby Driver | Bats | 2017-06-28 |
Series | The F Word | Himself | 2017-05-31 |
Movie | Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life | Self | 2017-06-08 |
Movie | Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic! | Self | 2017-11-22 |
Series | Jackie Robinson | Jackie Robinson (Voice) | 2016-04-11 |
Series | Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party | Himself | 2016-11-07 |
Movie | Rio 2 | Nico (voice) | 2014-03-19 |
Movie | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Max Dillon / Electro | 2014-04-16 |
Movie | A Million Ways to Die in the West | Django | 2014-05-22 |
Movie | Horrible Bosses 2 | Motherfucker Jones | 2014-11-12 |
Movie | Annie | William "Will" Stacks | 2014-12-19 |
Movie | The Concert for Valor | Self | 2014-11-11 |
Movie | White House Down | President James Sawyer | 2013-06-27 |
Movie | David Blaine: Real or Magic | Self | 2013-11-19 |
Movie | Any Given Tuesday | Self | 2013-10-17 |
Series | Circus Halligalli | Unknown | 2013-02-25 |
Movie | Django Unchained | Django Freeman | 2012-12-25 |
Movie | Always Whitney Houston | Self | 2012-01-01 |
Movie | Eddie Murphy: One Night Only | Self | 2012-11-14 |
Movie | Horrible Bosses | Motherfucker Jones | 2011-07-08 |
Movie | A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
Movie | Rio | Nico (voice) | 2011-04-03 |
Movie | Plies: Goon In the Trap | 2010-02-09 | |
Movie | Valentine's Day | Kelvin Moore | 2010-02-10 |
Movie | Due Date | Darryl | 2010-11-03 |
Movie | I'm Still Here | Jamie Foxx | 2010-09-10 |
Movie | Thunder Soul | Himself | 2010-03-13 |
Movie | We Are One With President-Elect Barack Obama | Self | 2009-01-18 |
Movie | DJ SWB Volume 6 | This Is How We Do | Self | 2009-02-09 |
Movie | Law Abiding Citizen | Nick Rice | 2009-10-15 |
Movie | The Soloist | Nathaniel Ayers | 2009-04-24 |
Movie | Mistarello Presents: Hard Body Blends Volume 4 | Self (archive footage) | 2009-05-27 |
Movie | DJ Juice: The King is Back Mixtape Blend DVD Vol. 70 | Self (archive footage) | 2009-07-06 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Himself | 2007-02-22 |
Movie | Sesame Street: Elmo's Christmas Countdown | Self | 2007-12-23 |
Movie | The Kingdom | Ronald Fleury | 2007-08-22 |
Movie | Dreamgirls | Curtis Taylor Jr. | 2006-12-25 |
Movie | Miami Vice | Det. Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs | 2006-07-27 |
Movie | Jarhead | Staff Sgt. Sykes | 2005-11-04 |
Series | The Tyra Banks Show | Unknown | 2005-09-12 |
Movie | Stealth | Henry Purcell | 2005-07-27 |
Movie | Kanye West: College Dropout [Video Anthology] | Self (segment "Slow Jamz") | 2005-03-22 |
Movie | Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story | Stan 'Tookie' Williams | 2004-03-03 |
Movie | Collateral | Max Durocher | 2004-08-04 |
Movie | Breakin' All the Rules | Quincy Watson | 2004-05-14 |
Movie | Ray | Ray Charles | 2004-10-29 |
Movie | Genius. A Night for Ray Charles | Self | 2004-10-07 |
Movie | Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet, #*%$#@!! | Self | 2003-01-01 |
Movie | Jamie Foxx Unleashed: Lost, Stolen and Leaked! | Himself | 2003-03-25 |
Series | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Unknown | 2003-09-08 |
Movie | Shaq's All Star Comedy Roast 2: Emmitt Smith | Self | 2003-06-17 |
Movie | Shade | Larry Jennings | 2003-05-18 |
Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
Movie | Jamie Foxx: I Might Need Security | Himself | 2002-02-23 |
Movie | It's Black Entertainment | Self | 2002-02-08 |
Series | Driven | Unknown | 2002-01-16 |
Movie | Ali | Drew 'Bundini' Brown | 2001-12-10 |
Series | BET Awards | Unknown | 2001-06-19 |
Series | Hard Knocks | Unknown | 2001-08-01 |
Movie | Bait | Alvin Sanders | 2000-03-17 |
Series | 106 & Park | Unknown | 2000-09-11 |
Movie | Any Given Sunday | Willie Beamen | 1999-12-22 |
Movie | Held Up | Michael | 1999-10-08 |
Movie | The Players Club | Blue | 1998-04-08 |
Series | TRL | Unknown | 1998-09-14 |
Movie | Booty Call | Bunz | 1997-02-26 |
Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
Series | Moesha | Unknown | 1996-01-23 |
Movie | The Truth About Cats & Dogs | Ed | 1996-04-26 |
Movie | The Great White Hype | Hassan El Ruk'n | 1996-05-03 |
Series | The Jamie Foxx Show | Jamie King | 1996-08-28 |
Series | The Daily Show | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
Series | Inside the Actors Studio | Unknown | 1994-08-14 |
Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
Movie | Jamie Foxx: Straight from the Foxxhole | Himself | 1993-11-06 |
Movie | Toys | Baker | 1992-12-18 |
Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
Series | Roc | Unknown | 1991-08-25 |
Series | In Living Color | Self - Various Characters | 1990-04-15 |
Series | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Unknown | 1988-09-05 |
Series | MTV Video Music Awards | Host - Himself | 1984-09-14 |
Series | Wetten, dass..? | Unknown | 1981-02-14 |
Series | Saturday Night Live | Unknown | 1975-10-11 |
Series | The Grammy Awards | Unknown | 1959-11-29 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
Series | Today | Unknown | 1952-01-14 |