Jamie Foxx

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Jamie Foxx (2013)
Jamie Foxx (2013)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Peep this
  US 78 08/06/1994 (10 weeks)
Unpredictable
  DE 43 05/05/2006 (3 weeks)
  CH 66 05/07/2006 (3 weeks)
  UK 9 
silver
silver
05/06/2006 (7 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum
07/01/2006 (34 weeks)
intuition
  US 3 
platinum
platinum
03/01/2009 (40 weeks)
Best Night of My Life
  US 6th 01/08/2011 (17 weeks)
Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses
  US 10 06/06/2015 (7 weeks)
Singles
Infatuation
  US 92 07/30/1994 (2 weeks)
Slow Jamz ( Twista feat. Kanye West & Jamie Foxx)
  DE 58 04/05/2004 (4 weeks)
  US 1 12/06/2003 (22 weeks)
Gold Digger (Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx)
  DE 35 10/31/2005 (9 weeks)
  UK 2 
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum
10/01/2005 (74 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
Seven times platinum
× 7
Seven times platinum
07/30/2005 (39 weeks)
Unpredictable (feat. Ludacris )
  DE 73 04/21/2006 (4 weeks)
  CH 85 05/06/2006 (1 week)
  UK 16 04/15/2006 (8 weeks)
  US 8th 
platinum
platinum
12/03/2005 (22 weeks)
DJ Play a Love Song ( feat.Twista )
  US 45 
gold
gold
05/06/2006 (14 weeks)
Extravaganza (feat. Kanye West )
  DE 99 08/11/2006 (1 week)
  UK 43 06/24/2006 (4 weeks)
Live in the Sky ( TI feat. Jamie Foxx)
  UK 83 10/28/2006 (1 week)
Just Like Me (feat. TI )
  US 49 12/27/2008 (18 weeks)
She Got Her Own (with Ne-Yo and Fabolous )
  US 54 12/27/2008 (20 weeks)
Blame It (feat. T-Pain )
  US 2 
platinum
platinum
January 31, 2009 (27 weeks)
Digital Girl ( feat.Drake , Kanye West and The-Dream )
  US 92 08/22/2009 (1 week)
Winner (feat. Justin Timberlake & TI )
  US 28 04/24/2010 (11 weeks)
Fall for Your Type (feat. Drake )
  US 50 December 25, 2010 (18 weeks)
You Changed Me (feat. Chris Brown )
  US 93 06/13/2015 (2 weeks)
Jam (Kevin Gates feat. Trey Songz , Jamie Foxx & Ty Dolla Sign )
  US 97 02/20/2016 (1 week)

Jamie Foxx (* 13 December 1967 as Eric Marlon Bishop in Terrell , Kaufman County , Texas ) is an American actor , musician and comedian . He became the third African-American actor for a starring role with the Oscar awarded.

Life

Jamie Foxx grew up with his grandmother; his parents divorced when he was seven months old. Under pressure from his grandmother, he learned to play the piano. Foxx wanted to go to the Army after school , but got the advice from his trainer to make something of his artistic talents. So he began a career as a stand-up comedian in small clubs in Los Angeles , where he imitated Ronald Reagan , among others . He appeared in the TV comedy In Living Color in the early 1990s . He became known in the USA with the sitcom Jamie Foxx Show, which has been broadcast since 1996, and various other sketch shows. In 1997 and 2000 he went on tour with his program. The stage name Foxx he chose is a tribute to the American comedian Redd Foxx , who in turn had chosen his stage name based on the baseball star Jimmie Foxx , who died in 1967, the year Jamie Foxx was born.

Jamie Foxx (2005)

Foxx also celebrated successes musically. His first album, Peep This, climbed to # 12 on the US Billboard charts in 1995. The follow-up work Unpredictable even briefly reached first place in December 2005. In 2010 he sang with We Are the World 25 for Haiti , thereby campaigning for Haiti .

His first film role he took on the side of Robin Williams in the film Toys . After initially acting in comedies, he got his first serious role in the football drama Every Damn Sunday from Oliver Stone . His breakthrough role as the opponent of Tom Cruise in Collateral (2004) earned him his first Oscar nomination (2005, for best supporting actor). For the film Ray (2004), in which he played the blind legendary musician Ray Charles , he won the 2005 Golden Globe in the category of Best Actor in a Comedy / Musical and the Oscar for Best Actor. Foxx became the third African-American actor to win an Oscar for a leading role after Sidney Poitier (1963, Lilien auf dem Felde ) and Denzel Washington (2002, Training Day ) .

In 2007 he starred alongside Jennifer Hudson , Anika Noni Rose and Beyoncé Knowles in the film Dreamgirls , which won two Academy Awards.

For the US 3D animation film Rio (2011) he dubbed the yellow belly girl Nico.

Foxx is the father of two daughters.

Foxx's voice actor is mostly Charles Rettinghaus . In some films he is also spoken of by Dietmar Wunder , among others in Stichtag , since Rettinghaus already Robert Downey jr. synchronized.

Filmography (selection)

Discography

Foxx and Kanye West perform "Gold Digger" live

Albums

(with single decouples)

  • Peep This (1995)
    • Infatuation (1994)
    • Experiment (1994)
  • Unpredictable (2005)
    • Unpredictable feat. Ludacris
    • Extravaganza feat. Kanye West (2006)
    • DJ Play a Love Song feat. Twista (2006)
    • Can I Take U Home (2006)
  • Intuition (2008)
    • Just Like Me feat. TI
    • She Got Her Own feat. Ne-Yo & Fabolous
    • Blame It feat. T-Pain (2009)
    • I Don't Need It (2009)
    • Digital Girl feat. Drake, Kanye West and The-Dream (2009)
  • Best Night Of My Life , 2010
    • Winner feat. Justin Timberlake, TI
    • Fall For Your Type feat. Drake
  • Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses , 2015
    • You Changed Me feat. Chris Brown

Other singles

  • Slow Jamz (with Twista feat. Kanye West), 2003
  • Gold Digger (with Kanye West ), 2005
  • Georgia (with Field Mob feat. Ludacris), 2005
  • Live in the Sky (with TI ), 2006
  • Please Excuse My Hands (with Plies feat. The-Dream), 2008
  • Straight to the Dancefloor (with Lil Wayne ), 2009
  • Where Do We Go (with Pitbull ), 2011
  • Party Ain't A Party (with 2 Chainz ), 2014
  • Focus (with Ariana Grande ), 2015

Video albums

  • 2005: I Might Need Security (US:Double platinum× 2Double platinum )

Awards

Foxx 'star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
  • Oscar
    • 2005: Best Actor in a Leading Role for Ray
    • 2005: Nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Collateral
  • Golden Globe
    • 2005: Best Actor Performance in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for Ray
    • 2005: Nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for Collateral
    • 2005: Nomination, Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Film for Television for Redemption
  • Golden Raspberry
    • 2019: Nomination for Worst Supporting Actor for Robin Hood

After Frank Sinatra , Cher , Barbra Streisand , Bing Crosby and Eminem , he is the sixth artist to both win an Oscar and land a number 1 hit.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE CH UK US
  2. ↑ TrailerLounge ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.trailerlounge.de
  3. ↑ Jamie Foxx interview in the FAZ
  4. ↑ http://www.amazon.de/Best-Night-Life-Jamie-Foxx/dp/B002R55ID0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292957819&sr=8-1

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Foxx, Jamie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bishop, Eric Marlon (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor, musician and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Terrell , Kaufman County , Texas , United States