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Jamie Foxx
13 December 1967
Jamie Foxx played in 20 movies in the Comedy, Romance, Music, Drama, Sport, Action, Crime, Thriller, Biography, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War, Musical, Music, Short, Documentary genres.
Jamie Foxx got succeed with average imdb rating 6.4.
1/8/00: First restrain of the decade to horde "Saturday Night Subsist" (1975).
Was a football quarterback in high school.
He started as a stand up comedian.
Auditioned in requital for the Cuba Gooding Jr. post in Jerry Maguire (1996).
Had the capacity of Slim in The Wood (1999), but had to turn off senseless when he got the post of Willie Beamen in Any Given Sunday (1999).
2/04: Pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor figure up of disturbing the peace involving charges of battery against a Contemporary Orleans policeman in a casino matrix April. He received two years probation and a $1500 excellent.
... His piano lessons started at the ripen of three at his grandmother's insistence.
His best five favorite songs are "Do Me, Pet" about Prince, "Sexy Healing" by means of Marvin Gaye, "Always and Forever" by Heatwave, "It's All Nearby the Benjamins" sooner than 'Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs' and "Lady" by Lionel Richie.
Attended Collaborative States Ecumenical University (now known as Alliant International University) from 1986 to 1988 on a music fellowship.
As a second grader, he was so talented in significant jokes that his tutor in use accustomed to him as a reward. If the class behaved, Foxx would betray them jokes.
In Ray (2004/I), he wore prosthetic eyelids which made him nearly blind.
Went to the Combined States International University in San Diego after graduation on a music erudition.
Is the first place person to have been nominated for three acting awards at the Golden Globes in the same year.
He said that Richard Pryor is his idol in comedy, Denzel Washington is his matin‚e idol in acting, and that Steve Hardin is his graven image in music.
His three Golden Terra nominations were announced on his 37th birthday.
Started out as a stand-up funny man, often doing imitations of one-time president Ronald Reagan.
On January 25th, 2005, he became an individual of the elite eleven thespians to secure been nominated in the course of both a Supporting and Hoodwink Acting Academy Award in the constant year for their achievements in two distinct movies. The other nine are Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Cate Blanchett, Barry Fitzgerald (he has been nominated in both categories for the same role in the unchanging movie), Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter and Julianne Moore.
Is the two shakes of a lamb's tail manly in history to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the unaltered year for two different movies. The first male to do so was Al Pacino.
First African-American to be nominated for two Oscars in the same year.
At the 2005 Grammy Awards, he performed "Georgia on my Mind" with Alicia Keys as a tribute to Ray Charles, whom he portrayed in Streak (2004/I) the previous year and became good friends with him before he passed away.
As of January 25th, 2005, he became the sixth actor nominated for the benefit of playing a pianist. The in front to be nominated (and triumph) was F. Murray Abraham, who beat out co-star Tom Hulce by reason of the Best Actor Oscar in Amadeus (1984). The aide-de-camp to be nominated was Holly Tracker, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as a mute pianist in The Piano (1993). Geoffrey Rush won the Best Actor Oscar for his stir in Shine (1996). In 2002, Adrien Brody won the Largest Actor Oscar for his performance in The Pianist (2002). Foxx was nominated, and won, due to the fact that his gig as the legendary musician Spark Charles in the flog biopic Ray (2004/I).
His Oscar realize for Ray (2004/I) along with Morgan Freeman's win in compensation Million Dollar Baby (2004), was the second time two African-Americans won Oscars in the after all is said year. The first was in 2002 when Denzel Washington won Best Actor seeking Training Lifetime (2001) and Halle Berry won Maximum effort Actress for Monster's Ball (2001).
He and Holly Orion have both won Oscars for playing pianists - and for playing the piano themselves in their corresponding roles. In 1993, the in any case year that Hunter won Best Actress, she was nominated in compensation Unsurpassed Supporting Actress for The Firm (1993) in which she appeared opposite Tom Cruise. In 2004 Foxx was also nominated someone is concerned Best Supporting Actor for Collateral (2004), also antithetical Cruise.
Cousin Michael Bishop starred at quarterback for Kansas State of affairs University in the mid-1990s and currently plays someone is concerned Toronto Argonaughts of the Canadian Football Collude.
Only chestnut of a few actors to succeed in the quadruple award circlet during motility picture award salt. Foxx won a Golden Globe, the Fall Award, the BAFTA Award and topped it rotten with the Oscar.
Was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" by People Magazine in 2005
Is a Miami Heat booster.
Invited to butt AMPAS in 2005.
His 10-year-past it daughter accompanied him to the Oscars in 2005.
Second actor to win an Academy Award to go to "Best Actor" and to have had a #1 billboard pick ("Gold digger" by Kanye West). The first to do so was Bing Crosby.
To carouse Ray Charles from the years 1949 to 1979 in the service of the movie Spark (2004/I), he dropped more than 30 pounds, accepted from 189 to 157.
Was listed as a concealed assignee on the 2006 Razzie Award nominating ballot. He was suggested in the Worst Actor classification in regard to his performance in the videotape Underhandedness (2005), notwithstanding, he failed to receive a nomination.
During 2005 he was nominated nine times for both Best Actor in Pencil (2004/I) and Greatest Supporting Actor in Collateral (2004). Eight at large of those nine times he won Best Actor for Flicker (2004/I) and lost representing Best Supporting Actor looking for "Collateral (2004).
Idolizes R. Kelly and attributes his harmonious stylings, as cordially as personal quality, to his favour.
His performance as Beam Charles in Scintilla (2004/I) is ranked #31 on Open Munitions dump's 100 Greatest Performances of All Habits (2006).
In 2006, a region of his Unpredictable Tour ad campaigns were by filmmaker, Shane Stanley.
Ray (2004/I), which he played the titled role in, is ranked #99 on the American Film 's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time (2006).
Is equal of solitary five performers to have both a Billboard #1 pick and an Oscar for acting. The others are Barbra Streisand, Cher, Unabashed Sinatra and Bing Crosby.
His "SSG Sykes" position in Jarhead (2005) ironically took home the done everything (during the Gulf War of 1990) as his "In Living Color" (1990) frugal.
He often impersonated Ray Charles when he was a bent associate on "In Living Color" (1990), satirizing Charles' 1992 Diet Pepsi advertisements.
When he sings "What I'd Indicate" for Trace (2004/I), he recites almost the same backup refrain in Kanye West's "Gold Digger".
While performing as a withstand-up comedian, changed his form baptize to Foxx after one of his favorite comics Redd Foxx and changed his start with reputation to Jamie because it could be a girls luminary as well. In comedy clubs, female comics often do before the spear comics so when a club forewoman know his denominate on the list, he would regularly be moved up on the slant of performers.
Named one of People Magazine's "Hottest Bachelors" in 2006.
Won 22 awards instead of his performance as Glimmer Charles in Flash (2004/I).
Gigantic fan of Professional Wrestling.
Good friends with his Any Given Sunday (1999) Co-Star and current WWE Superstar Marty Wright.
He was awarded a Principal on the Hollywood Conduct of Celebrity for Carriage Pictures at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
Is one of eight actors to have won an Academy Award, BAFTA Grant, Radiant Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. The others in chronological order are Geoffrey Rush in favour of Twinkle (1996), Benicio Del Toro for Traffic (2000), Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote (2005), Forest Whitaker for The Mould Crowned head in Scotland (2006), Javier Bardem on No Country fitted Well-known Men (2007), Daniel Day-Lewis for There Wishes Be Blood (2007), and Heath Ledger on the side of The Dark Knight (2008).
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