|
Hot Videos
Female Celeb
Wallpapers
|
Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, Grammy-nominated 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 musician Ray Charles.
Personal
He came to Los Angeles in the late 1980s to start a music career. He released an album in 1995, called Peep This and later sang the theme for Any Given Sunday. Even as he pursued a music career, Foxx did stand-up at comedy clubs, mostly on open-mic nights. On his name: "I wrote down all these unisex names at this comedy place because they would always choose the girls to go up... So I wrote down Stacy King, Tracy Brown, Jamie Foxx... And they picked Jamie Foxx. I got up, had a great night and that's how the name stuck." In California, he won the 1991 Oakland Comedy Competition and then joined the cast of In Living Color, which at the time starred Keenen Ivory Wayans.
In 1995, his daughter Corrine Marie Bishop was born. Corrine was Foxx's date to the 2005 Academy Awards.
His first dramatic role came in Oliver Stone's 1999 film Any Given Sunday, where Foxx played a heavy-partying football player. Considering his athletic background, it wasn't much of a stretch. He 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. His real standout performance, however, was his portrayal of Ray Charles in the biopic Ray (2004), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Foxx is only the 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 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; 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.
Characters
* Ace
* Carl "The Tooth" Williams
* Cornbread Turner (Duke)
* T-Dog Jenkins (The Dirty Dozens)
* Tyrone (The Dysfunctional Home Show)
* Wanda
Impressions
All impressions were on "In Living Color" (unless otherwise noted)
* Arsenio Hall
* Bill Cosby
* Don King
* Eddie Murphy
* Garrett Morris
* Jaleel White
* James Brown
* Johnny Gill
* JoJo
* Lionel Richie
* Stevie Wonder (when he hosted SNL)
* Louis Farrakhan
* Martin Luther King, Jr. (when he hosted SNL)
* Martin Lawrence
* Mike Tyson
* Prince
* Sean "Diddy" Combs (when he hosted SNL)
* Shaquille O'Neal
* Sir Mix-A-Lot
* Snoop Dogg
* Tito Jackson
* Tony Blair (in an episode of Chappelle's Show)
Music career
Jamie Foxx
Background information
Genre(s) R&B
Instrument(s) Keyboard
Years active 1994–present
Label(s) Sony BMG, J
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. 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", which also featured 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".
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.
After debuting in the first week 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 silver.
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 w/ 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 8 Dec 06, 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, Jamie Foxx was on Sirius Satellite Radio, announcing his new "Foxxhole" channel.
| Latest news about Jamie Foxx |
Jamie Foxx ft. Gucci Mane "Speak French" - Hot or Not ...Everybody loves Gucci! Here is Jamie Foxx and Gucci Mane Speak French - do you think it's hot or not? Continue reading
NEW EPISODE OF THE JAMIE FOXX SHOWRAP MUSIC , HIPHOP MUSIC , RIHANNA , jay-z , lil wayne , eminem, hiphop videos , beyonce , beyonce pictures , Continue reading
Jamie Foxx - "Speak French" with Gucci Mane | HipHopRuckus.ComI guess Gucci Mane has to fill his resumes and do something for the ladies...and the hood rats... Continue reading
harptio.com: NEW EPISODE OF THE JAMIE FOXX SHOWNew Music: Jamie Foxx feat. Gucci Mane, Pill, Robi... New Video: Trey Songz “I Invented Sex†· Other Island DJs have come & gone, but Edwin Trotm... NEW COUPLE ALERT!!! YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHICH ACTOR. ... Continue reading
Down-South.com - Jamie Foxx - Speak French Ft. Gucci Mane | Down ...download and listen to Jamie Foxx - Speak French Ft. Gucci Mane. Continue reading
Jamie Foxx Ft. Gucci Mane – Speak French | RealTalkNY Brought To ...Jamie Foxx Ft. Gucci Mane - Speak French Props Mr.X. Continue reading
New Music: Jamie Foxx ft. Gucci Mane – Speak French « TaSh; Hip ...Jamie Foxx seems like he is maneuvering back onto the music scene with a track called Speak French. This track is featuring rapper Gucci Mane. I'm starting to think is Gucci Mane trying to be the next Lil Wayne? ... Continue reading
Jamie Foxx Feat. Gucci Mane – “Speak French†« SoulSummer.com ...Jamie Foxx is having a little bit of fun as he teams with Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane for his new single. Pardon their french. Jamie Foxx Feat. Gucci Mane – “Speak Frenchâ€. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required ... Continue reading
Cigna's Sights & Views: Jamie Foxx Plans New Single, Album!Coming off the success of "Blame It" and last year's album, "Intuition", Jamie Foxx is wasting no time releasing his next album, "Body". Due in 2010, his new single, "Speak French" features Gucci Mane and below is the official ... Continue reading
Jamie Foxx ft. Gucci Mane – Speak French | The Hood NerdGucci is killing the airwaves this year.....pretty soon it's gonna be hard to name an artist he hasn't collab'ed with. I'm not sure if this is for Jamie's new. Continue reading
Hollywood Actors Jessica alba Jamie Foxx pictures and Jamie Foxx biography
|
|
|
