{"id":8604,"count":1,"description":"Eric Marlon Bishop\u00a0(born December 13, 1967),\u00a0known professionally as\u00a0Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, comedian, singer, and film producer. He achieved his career breakthrough as a featured player on the sketch comedy show\u00a0In Living Colour\u00a0from 1991 to 1994. Following this success, he was given his own\u00a0sitcom,\u00a0The Jamie Foxx Show, in which he starred, co-created and produced from 1996 to 2001.\n\nFoxx received acclaim for his portrayal of\u00a0Ray Charles\u00a0in the film\u00a0Ray\u00a0(2004), winning the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Actor. That same year, he was nominated for the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor\u00a0for his role in the crime film\u00a0Collateral. He gained further prominence for his film roles in\u00a0Ali\u00a0(2001),\u00a0Jarhead\u00a0(2005),\u00a0Dreamgirls (2006),\u00a0Miami Vice\u00a0(2006),\u00a0Horrible Bosses\u00a0(2011),\u00a0Django Unchained\u00a0(2012),\u00a0Annie\u00a0(2014),\u00a0Baby Driver\u00a0(2017), and\u00a0Soul\u00a0(2020). He also played\u00a0Electro\u00a0in\u00a0The Amazing Spider-Man 2\u00a0(2014) and\u00a0Spider-Man: No Way Home\u00a0(2021) and\u00a0Walter McMillian\u00a0in\u00a0Just Mercy\u00a0(2019).\n\nFoxx also embarked on a successful career as an\u00a0R&B\u00a0singer in the 2000s. He earned two number-one singles on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100, with his features on the singles \"Slow Jamz\" by\u00a0Twista, alongside\u00a0Kanye West, and \"Gold Digger\" by the latter. His single \"Blame It\" won him the\u00a0Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Four of his five studio albums have charted in the top ten of the U.S.\u00a0Billboard 200:\u00a0Unpredictable\u00a0(2005), which topped the chart,\u00a0Intuition\u00a0(2008),\u00a0Best Night of My Life\u00a0(2010), and\u00a0Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses\u00a0(2015). Since 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the\u00a0Fox\u00a0game show\u00a0Beat Shazam. In 2021, he wrote his autobiography, Act Like You Got Some Sense.\n\nDescription above from the Wikipedia article Jamie Foxx, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/actor\/jamie-foxx\/","name":"Jamie Foxx","slug":"jamie-foxx","taxonomy":"actor","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor\/8604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/actor"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/movie?actor=8604"},{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?actor=8604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}