Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx in DreamWorks Pictures' and Paramount Pictures' Dreamgirls - 2006

Biography

Born 12/13/1967

First discovered by audiences as a confident, fresh faced comic who was proficient at playing outrageous characters and sending up famous celebrities, actor Jamie Foxx cut his teeth on the small screen when he joined the popular television sketch comedy, "In Living Color" (Fox, 1990-94) after its...
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Awards

  • In 2005, received Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
  • In 2005, received Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
  • In 2005, received British Academy Film Award for Best Actor

Highlights

  • In 2009, Portrayed Nathaniel Ayers, a musical prodigy who developed schizophrenia in Joe Wright's "The Soloist"
  • In 2008, Released third album titled Intuition, featuring such artists, Kanye West, T.I., Lil Wayne and T-Pain
  • In 2007, Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (September)

Family & Companions

  • Leila Arcieri: Companion (Accompanied Foxx to the "Collateral" premiere in August 2004; no longer together)
  • Mark Talley: grandfather (Maternal grandfather; adopted Foxx at 7 months old and raised him)

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