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{{Short description|American actor, singer, and comedian (born 1967)}}
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Foxx gained his career breakthrough as a featured player in the sketch comedy show ''[[In Living Color]]'' until the show's end in 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. He gained prominence for his film roles in ''[[Booty Call]]'' (1997), ''[[Ali (film)|Ali]]'' (2001), ''[[Jarhead (film)|Jarhead]]'' (2005), ''[[Dreamgirls (film)|Dreamgirls]]'' (2006), ''[[Miami Vice (film)|Miami Vice]]'' (2006), ''[[Horrible Bosses]]'' (2011), ''[[Django Unchained]]'' (2012), ''[[Annie (2014 film)|Annie]]'' (2014), ''[[Baby Driver]]'' (2017), and ''[[Soul (2020 film)|Soul]]'' (2020). He played the supervillain [[Electro (Marvel Comics)|Electro]] in ''[[The Amazing Spider-Man 2]]'' (2014) and ''[[Spider-Man: No Way Home]]'' (2021). For playing [[Walter McMillian]] in ''[[Just Mercy]]'' (2019) he received a [[Screen Actors Guild Award]] nomination.
 
Foxx also embarked on a successful career as an [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]] singer in the 2000s. He earned two number-one singles on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], with his features on the singles "[[Slow Jamz]]" by [[Twista]] alongside [[Kanye West]], and "[[Gold Digger (Kanye West song)|Gold Digger]]" by Kanyethe Westformer. His single "[[Blame It]]" won him the [[Grammy 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. [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]: ''[[Unpredictable (Jamie Foxx album)|Unpredictable]]'' (2005), which topped the chart, ''[[Intuition (Jamie Foxx album)|Intuition]]'' (2008), ''[[Best Night of My Life]]'' (2010), and ''[[Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses]] ''(2015). Since 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] game show ''[[Beat Shazam]]''. In 2021, he wrote his autobiography ''Act Like You Got Some Sense''.
 
== Early life ==
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===2003–2006: Career stardom ===
[[File:Jamie Foxx with Kanye West.jpg|thumb|upright|Foxx and [[Kanye West]] performing "[[Gold Digger (Kanye West song)|Gold Digger]]"]]
In 2003, Foxx featured on the [[rapper]] [[Twista]]'s song, "[[Slow Jamz]]", together with [[Kanye West]], which reached No. 1 on the USU.S. [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] singles chart and #3 on the [[UK Singles chart]]. His second collaboration with [[Kanye West]], "[[Gold Digger (Kanye West song)|Gold Digger]]," in which Foxx sang the [[Ray Charles]]-influenced "[[I Got a Woman]]" hook, then went straight to No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, remaining there for 10 weeks. In 2005, Foxx featured on the single "[[Georgia (Field Mob and Ludacris song)|Georgia]]" by Atlanta rappers [[Ludacris]] and [[Field Mob]], which sampled Ray Charles' hit "[[Georgia on My Mind]]".
 
Foxx would also portray [[Ray Charles]] in the biographical film ''[[Ray (film)|Ray]]'' (2004), for which he won the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]]<ref name="actors" /> and the [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role]]. Foxx is the third male in history (after [[Barry Fitzgerald]] and [[Al Pacino]]) to receive [[List of actors nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year|two acting Oscar nominations in the same year for two different movies]], ''[[Collateral (film)|Collateral]]'' and ''[[Ray (film)|Ray]]''. In 2005, Foxx was invited to join the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 24, 2005 |title=Academy Invites 112 to Membership. |url=http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2005/05.06.24.html |publisher=Oscars.org}}</ref>
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Foxx released his second studio album, ''[[Unpredictable (Jamie Foxx album)|Unpredictable]]'', in December 2005. It debuted at No. 2, selling 598,000 copies in its first week,<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Hasty |first=Katie |date=December 28, 2005 |title=Blige's 'Breakthrough' Bows at No. 1 |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/bliges-breakthrough-bows-at-no-1-60255/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623065736/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/60255/bliges-breakthrough-bows-at-no-1 |archive-date=June 23, 2013 |access-date=February 23, 2009}}</ref> rising to No. 1 the following week and selling an additional 200,000 copies.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Hasty |first=Katie |date=January 4, 2006 |title=Foxx Overtakes Blige on Album Chart |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/foxx-overtakes-blige-on-album-chart-60198/amp/ |url-status=live |magazine=Billboard |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630134905/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/60198/foxx-overtakes-blige-on-album-chart |archive-date=June 30, 2013 |access-date=February 23, 2009}}</ref> To date, the album has sold 1.98&nbsp;million copies in the United States, and was certified double [[music recording sales certification|Platinum]] by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Cohen |first=Jonathan |date=2008-11-06 |title=Jamie Foxx Taps Into 'Intuition' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/jamie-foxx-taps-into-intuition-1043568/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630134712/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1043568/jamie-foxx-taps-into-intuition |archive-date=June 30, 2013 |access-date=2023-05-15 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=RIAA – Gold & Platinum |url=http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&artist=jamie%20foxx&format=ALBUM&startYear=1958&endYear=2009&sort=Artist&perPage=25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018074626/http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&artist=jamie%20foxx&format=ALBUM&startYear=1958&endYear=2009&sort=Artist&perPage=25 |archive-date=October 18, 2015 |access-date=February 23, 2009 |website=[[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]]}}</ref> The album also charted on the [[UK Albums Chart]], where it peaked at No. 9.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jamie Foxx – Unpredictable – Music Charts |url=http://acharts.us/album/14257 |access-date=February 23, 2009 |website=αCharts}}</ref> Foxx became the fourth artist to have both won an Academy Award for an acting role and to have achieved a No. 1 album in the U.S, joining [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Bing Crosby]] and [[Barbra Streisand]].
 
Foxx's first single from the album, the title track "Unpredictable" (featuring [[Ludacris]]), peaked in the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] Top 10 singles and also made the UK Top 20 singles chart; the track samples "[[Wildflower (Skylark song)|Wildflower]]" by [[New Birth (band)|New Birth]]. The second USU.S. single from the album was "DJ Play a Love Song," which reunited Foxx with [[Twista]]. In the UK, the second single was "Extravaganza", which saw Foxx once again collaborate with [[Kanye West]], although Foxx did not feature in the song's music video.
 
[[File:Jamie Foxx Navy.jpg|thumb|upright|Foxx promoting ''[[Stealth (film)|Stealth]]'' in July 2005]]
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==== Upcoming projects ====
On May 29, 2018, Foxx was cast as [[Spawn (character)|Al Simmons]] in a planned ''[[SpawnKing (2025 film)|reboot of the ''Spawn]]'' film franchise]], to be directed by [[Todd McFarlane]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fleming |first=Mike Jr. |date=May 29, 2018 |title=Jamie Foxx Set For 'Spawn,' Creator Todd McFarlane's Dark Blumhouse Adaptation |url=https://deadline.com/2018/05/spawn-jamie-foxx-todd-mcfarlane-jason-blum-blumhouse-movie-1202399090/ |access-date=May 29, 2018 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |location=Los Angeles, California}}</ref> In 2015, Foxx became attached to portray former boxer [[Mike Tyson]] in a biographical drama film ''Finding Mike''; in 2020, he began to exercise in order to gain muscle for the role.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 19, 2020 |title=Mike Tyson movie, Jamie Foxx body transformation, impersonation video |url=https://www.foxsports.com.au/boxing/mike-tyson-movie-jamie-foxx-body-transformation-impersonation-video/news-story/6b25f87d39e11b5ea3c7589f0ad6f20f}}</ref> In 2021, the project turned into a miniseries, to be directed by [[Antoine Fuqua]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Campbell |first=Scott |date=March 22, 2021 |title=Jamie Foxx's Mike Tyson Biopic Shifts to a Limited Series With Martin Scorsese Exec Producing, Antoine Fuqua to Direct |url=https://collider.com/jamie-foxx-mike-tyson-series-martin-scorsese-antoine-fuqua/ |website=Collider}}</ref>
 
==Personal life==
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