The Jamie Foxx Handbook - Everything you need to know about Jamie Foxx

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Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, R&B singer, stand-up comedian, and talk radio host. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical/comedy. He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing two albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, and Intuition.

This book is your ultimate resource for Jamie Foxx. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career, Personal life, Music and Filmography right away: Jamie Foxx discography, Peep This, Unpredictable (Jamie Foxx album), Intuition (Jamie Foxx album), Best Night of My Life, The Blame It Tour, Toys (film), The Truth About Cats & Dogs, The Great White Hype, Booty Call, The Players Club, Held Up, Any Given Sunday, Bait (film), Ali (film), Shade (film), Breakin' All the Rules, Collateral (film), Ray (film), Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story, Stealth (film), Jarhead (film), Miami Vice (film), Dreamgirls (film), The Kingdom (film), The Soloist, Law Abiding Citizen, Valentine's Day (film), Due Date, Kane & Lynch (film)

Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.

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• Autobiography
• Entertainment
• Biography
• Performing Arts

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• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781486435227
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 12 Mo

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Contents Articles Jamie Foxx Jamie Foxx discography Peep This Unpredictable (Jamie Foxx album) Intuition (Jamie Foxx album) Best Night of My Life The Blame It Tour Toys (film) The Truth About Cats & Dogs The Great White Hype Booty Call The Players Club Held Up Any Given Sunday Bait (film) Ali (film) Shade (film) Breakin' All the Rules Collateral (film) Ray (film) Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story Stealth (film) Jarhead (film) Miami Vice (film) Dreamgirls (film) The Kingdom (film) The Soloist Law Abiding Citizen Valentine's Day (film) Due Date Kane & Lynch (film) References Article Sources and Contributors

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Jamie Foxx Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx Foxx promotingStealthin July 2005 Born 13, 1967Terrell,Eric Marlon BishopDecember Texas, United States Occupation musician,Actor, comedian, Singer-songwriter, recordproducer Years active 1991 – present Website

[1] Official site

Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, R&B singer, stand-up comedian, and talk radio host. As an actor, his work in the filmRayearned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical/comedy. He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing two albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, andIntuition.

Early life [2] Foxx was born as Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967, in Terrell, Texas. He is the son of Louise Annette Talley Dixon and Darrell Bishop. Foxx was abandoned seven months after birth, and was subsequently adopted and [3] raised in Terrell by his mother's adoptive parents, Estelle and Mark Talley. Terrell was a racially segregated [4] [5] [6] community at the time. Foxx had a strict Baptist upbringing and began piano lessons at the age of five by his grandmother's orders. As a teenager, he was a part-time pianist and choir leader in Terrell's New Hope Baptist [4] Church. Foxx attended Terrell High School, where he received top grades, played basketball and football as quarterback, and had an ambition to play for the Dallas Cowboys. He was the first player in the school's history to pass for more than [4] [7] [4] 1,000 yards. He also sang in a band called Leather and Lace. After completing high school, Foxx received a [4] [8] scholarship to United States International University, where he studied classical music and composition. He has [5] [9] often acknowledged his grandmother's influence in his life as one of the greatest reasons for his success.

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Jamie Foxx 2 Early career andIn Living Color After accepting a girlfriend's dare, Foxx told jokes and did impressions at a comedy club's open mic night in 1989. When he found that female comedians were often called first to perform, he changed his name to Jamie Foxx, feeling [4] [10] that it was an ambiguous enough name to disallow any biases. He chose his surname as a tribute to comedian [10] Redd Foxx. In addition his recurrentIn Living Colorcharacter LaWanda shared names with Redd's friend and co-worker, LaWanda Page. Foxx joined the cast ofIn Living Colorin 1991 and subsequently played a recurring role in the comedy-drama [11] sitcomRoc. From 1996 to 2001, Foxx starred in his own sitcomThe Jamie Foxx Show, and in 1992 he made his film debut. Film career Foxx made his film debut in the 1992 comedyToys. His first dramatic role came in Oliver Stone's 1999 filmAny Given Sunday, where he [5] portrayed a hard-partying American football player. He was cast in [5] the role in part because of his background as a football player. Foxx has since evolved into a respected dramatic actor. FollowingAny Given Sunday, Foxx was featured as taxi driver Max Durocher in the film Collateralalongside Tom Cruise, for which he received outstanding reviews and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting [5] Actor. His standout performance, however, was his portrayal of Ray Foxx's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Charles in the biopicRay(2004), for which he won the Academy [5] Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Foxx is the second male in history to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the same year for two different movies,CollateralandRay. The only other male actor to achieve this was Al Pacino. In 2005, Foxx was invited to [12] join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Following these successes, Foxx appeared inJarhead,Miami Vice, andDreamgirls, which were box-office hits, and lifted his profile even higher as a bankable star in Hollywood. 2007 brought him the lead role in the filmThe Kingdomopposite Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner and Ashraf Barhom. In September 2007, Foxx was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He said, upon receiving the honor, [13] "[it was] one of the most amazing days of my life." In April 2009, Foxx played the lead role in the dramatic filmThe Soloist.

Jamie Foxx 3 Music Foxx began piano lessons at age five. In 1994, Foxx released an album (on the Fox record label) entitledPeep This. His music career shifted 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 U.S.BillboardHot 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 number one on theBillboardHot 100, and remained there for 10 weeks. In 2005, Foxx was featured on the single "Georgia" by Atlanta rappers Ludacris and Field Mob. The song sampled Ray Charles' hit "Georgia on My Mind." Foxx released his second studio album,Unpredictablein Foxx and Kanye West performing "Gold Digger" December 2005. It debuted at number two, selling 598,000 copies [14] in its first week. The following week, the album rose to number [15] one, selling an additional 200,000 copies. To date, the album has sold 1.98 million copies in the United States, [16] [17] and was certified double Platinum by the RIAA. The album also charted on the UK Albums Chart, where it [18] peaked at number nine. Foxx became the fourth artist to have won an Academy Award for an acting role 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 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards, Foxx won Best Duet/Collaboration with Kanye West for "Gold Digger" and tied with Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You" for Video of the year. On December 8, 2006, Foxx received four Grammy nominations, which included Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals forLove Changesfeaturing Mary J. Blige, Best R&B Album forUnpredictable, Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group forGeorgiaby Ludacris & Field Mob featuring Jamie Foxx, and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for Unpredictablefeaturing Ludacris. On January 22, 2007, Foxx was on Sirius Satellite Radio, announcing his new channel The Foxxhole. The channel features talk-radio programs, stand-up comedy albums, and music primarily by African-American performers, and features much of Foxx's own material as well.The Jamie Foxx Show, Foxx's own talk-radio variety program, airs Friday evenings on The Foxxhole, and features Johnny Mack, Speedy, The Poetess, Lewis Dix, and T.D.P., as his co-hosts. Guests include popular musicians, actors, and fellow comedians. He recorded a song with country superstars Rascal Flatts entitled "She Goes All the Way" for their album,Still Feels Good. Foxx also performed background vocals for artist/songwriter Tank. He and The-Dream are featured on Plies' "Please Excuse My Hands." He also appeared on the remix of Ne-Yo's "Miss Independent" entitled "She Got Her Own." The track also features Fabolous. Foxx then collaborated with rapper The Game on the track "Around The World." Foxx released his third album titledIntuitionfeaturing such artists as Kanye West, T.I., Lil Wayne, and T-Pain. The album's first single, "Just Like Me" featuring T.I., was promoted by a video directed by Brett Ratner and featuring an appearance by Taraji P. Henson. The second single "Blame It" featured T-Pain and became a top 5 single on the Billboard Hot 100 and a number-one single on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The "Blame It" music

Jamie Foxx 4 video, directed by Hype Williams, features cameo appearances by Forest Whitaker, Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Howard, Quincy Jones, and Jake Gyllenhaal, among others. Foxx was also featured on T.I.'s single "Live in the Sky" from the albumKing. On April 6, 2009 Foxx performed the George Strait song "You Look So Good in Love" at the George Strait Artist of the Decade All-Star Concert. Foxx has been a fan of country music for many years. Jamie Foxx hosted the 2009 BET Awards ceremony on June 28, 2009, which featured several tributes to pop star Michael Jackson, who had died three days prior to the show. Aside from performing "Blame It" with T-Pain and "She Got Her Own" with Ne-Yo and Fabolous, Foxx opened the show with a rendition of Jackson's "Beat It" dance routine and closed the show with a cover of The Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" with Ne-Yo. Foxx stated during the ceremony, "We want to celebrate this black man. He belongs to us and we shared him with everybody else." [19] Foxx will release his fourth album,Best Night of My LifeThe first single is "Winner",, on December 21, 2010. [20] featuring Justin Timberlake and T.I.. The second single is "Living Better Now" featuring rapper Rick Ross and [19] the third single is "Fall For Your Type" featuring rapper Drake. Personal life [4] Foxx has a daughter, Corinne Bishop, who was born in 1995. FormerJamie Foxx Showco-star Garcelle [21] Beauvais-Nilon made a public announcement onThe Wendy Williams Showstating that Foxx has a second child. [22] Foxx performed a public service announcement for Do Something to promote food drives in local communities. [23] Foxx, being from Texas, is a Dallas Mavericks Fan. Legal issues In April 2003, Foxx was involved in an incident with two police officers who were attempting to escort him and his sister out of Harrah's casino in New Orleans. Employees claimed they had failed to show identification upon entry. Originally charged with trespassing, disturbing the peace, battery on police officers and resisting arrest, Foxx pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace in exchange for the other charges being dropped, and was sentenced to a [24] [25] six month suspended jail term with two years probation and a $1500 fine. Controversy

On the April 17, 2009 episode ofThe Jamie Foxx Showon Foxxhole Radio, Foxx and his co-hosts made several sexually suggestive and disparaging jokes regarding teenaged singer Miley Cyrus, in response to a caller's comment [26] on a recent altercation between Cyrus and rock band Radiohead. Foxx issued a public apology onThe Tonight Show with Jay Lenoseveral days later in response to growing public outcry as well as televised criticism by Cyrus's [27] father, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. He also supported gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams' efforts to avoid being executed for robbery and multiple murders, and took a starring role in the related movie "Redemption".

Jamie Foxx Discography Peep This(1994) Unpredictable(2005) Intuition(2008) Best Night of My Life(2010) Tours  The Unpredictable Tour (2006)  The Blame It Tour (2009) Filmography Year Film

1992Toys 1996 The Truth About Cats & Dogs The Great White Hype

1997Booty Call 1998The Players Club 1999Held Up Any Given Sunday

2000Bait 2001Date from Heaven Ali

2003Shade

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Bunz Blue Michael Willie Beamen Nominated — BET Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Male Performance Alvin Sanders Drew 'Bundini' BET Award for Best SupportingActor Brown NAACP Image Award for OutstandingSupportingActor in a Motion Picture Larry Jennings

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Jamie Foxx 2004Breakin' All the RulesQuincy WatsonNominated — BET Award for Best Actor, Musical or Comedy CollateralMaxBET Award for Best SupportingActor Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best SupportingActor Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best SupportingActor – Motion Picture Nominated — NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated — Online Film Critics SocietyAward for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Satellite Award for Best SupportingActor - Motion Picture Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role RayRay CharlesAcademyAward for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a LeadingRole BET Award for Best Actor Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor NAACP Image Award for OutstandingActor in a Motion Picture National Board of Review Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Seattle Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Redemption: The Stan Tookie TookieBET Award for Best Actor, Network/Cable Television Williams Story NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie 2005StealthLt. Henry Purcell JarheadStaff Sgt. SykesNominated — Black Movie Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor

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Jamie Foxx 2006Miami Vice Dreamgirls

2007The Kingdom 2009The Soloist Law Abiding Citizen

2010Valentine's Day Due Date 2011Kane & Lynch

Ricardo Tubbs Curtis Taylor, Nominated — BET Award for Best Actor Jr. Nominated — NAACP Image Award for OutstandingActor in a Motion Picture Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture euryRonald Fl Nathaniel AyersNominated- Black Reel Awards- Best Actor Nick RiceNominated- BET Awards- Best Actor Nominated- Image Awards- Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Kelvin Briggs Jim James Seth Lynch

Awards and nominations

Television Awards  Image Awards  1998, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series:The Jamie Foxx Show  1999, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series:The Jamie Foxx Show(nominated)  2000, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series:The Jamie Foxx Show(nominated)  2001, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series:The Jamie Foxx Show(nominated)

Music awards  American Music Awards

 2009, Favorite R&B/Soul Male Artist (nominated)  2006, Favorite R&B/Soul Male Artist (winner)  2006, Favorite R&B/Soul Album:Unpredictable(nominated)

 BET Awards  2006, Best Male R&B Artist (nominated)  2006, Best Collaboration ("Unpredictable") with Ludacris (nominated)  2009, Best Collaboration T-Pain("Blame It") with (Winner)  2009, Video of the Year: ("Blame It") (nominated)  2009, Best Male R&B Artist (nominated)  Grammy Awards  2010, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group T-Pain("Blame It") with (winner)  2010, Best Contemporary R&B Album (Intuition) (nominated)  2010, Best R&B Song ("Blame It") (nominated)  2007, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Unpredictable") with Ludacris (nominated)  2007, Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group ("Georgia") with Ludacris & Field Mob (nominated)  2007, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group ("Love Changes") with Mary J. Blige (nominated)  2007, Best R&B Album (Unpredictable) (nominated)  2006, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Slow Jamz") with Twista & Kanye West (nominated)  2006, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance ("Creepin") (nominated)

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