Biography
Jamie Foxx, born Eric Marlon Bishop, is an American actor, comedian, singer and producer. He began performing stand-up comedy in the late 1980s and achieved a breakthrough as a cast member on the sketch series In Living Color from 1991 to 1994. He subsequently created and starred in the sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, which ran from 1996 to 2001.
Foxx gained widespread recognition for his performance as Ray Charles in the 2004 biopic Ray, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has appeared in numerous films including Collateral (2004), Django Unchained (2012) as Django Freeman, Baby Driver (2017) and Soul (2020). In 2023 he voiced Bug in the comedy Strays.
