Famous For
Comedian on In Living Color, The Jamie Foxx Show, Collateral, Ray, The Kingdom; Hit album 'Unpredictable'


Quick Bio
After a small part on the TV series Roc, Foxx joined the cast of In Living Color in 1991. Foxx's first dramatic role came in Oliver Stone's 1999 film Any Given Sunday. Following Any Given Sunday, Foxx was featured as taxi driver Max Durocher in the film Collateral alongside Tom Cruise. His standout performance, however, was his portrayal of Ray Charles in the biopic Ray (2004), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Foxx is the second male, and the first African American, in history to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the same year for two different movies, Collateral and Ray. Foxx is a Grammy-nominated singer and accomplished musician.