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Jamie Foxx

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Also known as Eric Marlon Bishop, Eric Bishop

American actor, comedian, and singer (born 1967)

OverviewAI-generated

Jamie Foxx is an American male artist whose career began in 1989. He is recognized for his work in genres including hip hop, R&B, soul, and dance hall. His musical output has been tagged with rnb, soul, Hip-Hop, and rap. Foxx has received recognition in the Academy Award Best Actor collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.

He has two children and maintains a net worth of 85000000. His official website is jamiefoxxmusic.com. On Last.fm, he has 1263026 listeners and 11693881 plays. He also has 4706828 social media followers.

Foxx is listed as an author with four works, including "Baby Driver" and "Act Like You Got Some Sense." Crossref lists five works associated with him.

Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • Baby Driver
  • Act Like You Got Some Sense - Carton of 10 Signed Copies
  • Act Like You Got Some Sense
  • Jamie Foxx show

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1967-12-13
hip hop rnb and dance hallsoul

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,263,026
Total plays
11,693,881

Tags

rnbsoulHip-Hopraphip hop

Eric Morlon Bishop, Jr. (born December 13, 1967 in Terrell, Texas), better known by his stage name Jamie Foxx, is an Academy Award winning actor, Grammy Award winning multi-platinum selling R&B singer, and critically acclaimed comedian. As a singer he has three multi-platinum releases; 1994’s Peep This, 2005’s Unpredictable and 2008’s Intuition. His fourth studio album, Best Night of My Life, will be released December 21. Foxx received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on September 14, 2007.

via Last.fm · Jamie Foxx

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Encyclopedic overview

Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, comedian, singer, and film producer. He gained his career breakthrough as a featured player in the sketch comedy show In Living Color from 1991 to 1994. Following this success, he was given his own sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show, in which he starred, co-created and produced from 1996 to 2001.

Foxx received acclaim for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the film Ray (2004), winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. That same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film Collateral. He gained further prominence for his film roles in Ali (2001), Jarhead (2005), Dreamgirls (2006), Miami Vice (2006), Horrible Bosses (2011), Django Unchained (2012), Annie (2014), Baby Driver (2017), and Soul (2020). He also played Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) and Walter McMillian in Just Mercy (2019).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jamie Foxx” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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