American comedian, actor, and singer Eric Marlon Bishop was born December 13, 1967. He became widely known for his performance as Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film Ray in which he was awarded the Academy Award, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics Choice Movie Award as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. The actor was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor that year for his performance as Collateral. Since 2017 Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the Fox game show Beat Shazam.Other performances include the role of Staff Sergeant Sykes in the film Jarhead (2005), record executive Curtis Taylor Jr. Jarhead (2005), record executive Curtis Taylor Jr. in Dreamgirls (2006) as well as the role of Detective Ricardo Tubbs in the 2006 film adaptation of the TV show Miami Vice, the title role in the film Django Unchained (2012), the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Will Stacks in Annie (2014) and gangster Bats and Leon Jefferson III in Baby Driver (2017) and also as Walter McMillian in Just Mercy (2019) and received a SAG Award nomination. In the year 1991, Foxx joined the cast as a regular on the sketch comedy show In Living Color until the show's end in 1994.
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