Started out as a stand-up comedian, often doing imitations of former president Ronald Reagan. Is only the second male in history to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the same year for two different movies. The first male to do so was Al Pacino. Is the first African-American to be nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year. At the Grammy Awards, he performed "Georgia on My Mind" with Alicia Keys as a tribute to Ray Charles , whom he portrayed in Ray the previous year and became good friends with him before he passed away.
As of January 25, , he became the sixth actor nominated for playing a pianist. The first to be nominated and win was F. Foxx was nominated, and won, for his performance as the legendary musician Ray Charles in the hit biopic Ray He and Holly Hunter have both won Oscars for playing pianists - and for playing the piano themselves in their respective roles.
Only one of a few actors to win the quadruple award crown during motion picture award season. Is a huge fan of the Miami Heat basketball team and professional wrestling. His year-old daughter, Corinne Foxx , accompanied him to the Academy Awards The first to do so was Bing Crosby.
To play Ray Charles from the years to for the movie Ray , he dropped more than 30 pounds, going from to Was listed as a potential nominee on the Razzie Award nominating ballot. He was suggested in the Worst Actor category for his performance in the film Stealth However, he failed to receive a nomination. Idolizes R. Kelly and attributes his musical stylings, as well as personal style, to his influence. In , a region of his Unpredictable Tour advertising campaigns were by filmmaker, Shane Stanley.
Is one of only five performers to have both a Billboard 1 single and an Oscar for acting. While performing as a stand-up comedian, changed his last name to Foxx after one of his favorite comics Redd Foxx and changed his first name to Jamie because it could be a girls name as well.
In comedy clubs, female comics often perform before the male comics so when a club manager read his name on the list, he would often be moved up on the list of performers.
Won 22 awards for his performance as Ray Charles in Ray As of , those are the only two Best Picture Oscar nominated films that either has appeared in. Best friends with Garcelle Beauvais. Actor-director F. Gary Gray celebrated his 50th birthday at Jamie's Los Angeles home.
It was amazing to hear the little buzzing voices all around you. That's for Ray Charles. Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living. I got so many people to thank tonight. First I want to start it out with Taylor Hackford. Taylor, you took a chance, man. I mean that love for Ray Charles was deep, down in the earth. It's cracked open. And it's spilling. And everybody's drowning in this love. I thank you for taking a chance on this film. And thank you for waiting 15 years to get me to do it.
I want to thank you. I want to thank Crusader. I want to thank my agents. I want to thank Rick Kurtzman. I want to thank Kim Hodges. I want to thank Steve Smooke. Let's live this African-American dream. It's beautiful. I'm glad I'm with you. I ain't never leaving you. I got a chance to meet a whole lot of people, experiencing this.
And other people I want to thank, I want to thank my sister. Four feet, eleven inches of nothing but pure love. I want to thank my daughter for telling me just before I got up here, "If you don't win, dad, you're still good. I'm just I just want to say your names. I want to talk to you later. Both of you. Because Oprah got -- allowed me to meet somebody by the name of Sidney Poitier. Show all 18 episodes. Miami Heat Self - Guest Panelist. Narrator voice. Self - Actor-Comedian-Singer.
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Edit Did You Know? Star Sign: Sagittarius. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. After his parents' marriage dissolved, Foxx was adopted by his maternal grandparents when he was less than a year old. He enjoyed sports and music as a child, and attended Terrell High School in his hometown.
After receiving a scholarship, Foxx enrolled at the U. International University in San Diego where he majored in music. It was during college that he was encouraged by friends to take the open mike one night at a comedy club, and his career in entertainment began. Leaving college, Foxx moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in comedy.
In he was hired as a regular cast member on the Fox variety show In Living Color. Foxx left In Living Color in , but in he returned to television with The Jamie Foxx Show , playing a struggling Los Angeles actor who lives in a hotel owned by his aunt and uncle.
By the time his show ended in , Foxx was beginning to be viewed as a talented dramatic actor. This was due in large part to his performance in the sports drama Any Given Sunday Playing football star Willie Beamen, Foxx showed incredible range in his performance and held his own against one of film's greats, Al Pacino.
His next notable film role was in Michael Mann's Ali , and he later earned praise for his performance opposite Tom Cruise in the thriller Collateral While Collateral was a critical and commercial hit, Foxx drew more attention that year for his starring role as Ray Charles in the biopic Ray. Following Ray , Foxx took an interesting array of roles with mixed results.
The military action film Stealth , with Josh Lucas and Jessica Biel , was a critical and financial dud. That same year, he garnered some critical praise for his turn as a marine serving in the Middle East in Jarhead , with Jake Gyllenhaal , but the movie failed to attract much of an audience. His character then transforms Early's backup singers, the Dreamettes, into an all-female supergroup.
The film is loosely based on the '60s pop group the Supremes. Foxx then featured prominently in The Kingdom , a thriller about a terrorist attack on Americans in Saudi Arabia.
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