Jamie Foxx

 American comedian, actor, and singer Jamie Foxx. For his performance in Ray (2004) in which Jamie Foxx won the Academy Award for Best Actor as well as the BAFTA Award as Best Actor In a Leading Role. He also won the Golden Globe Award as Best Actor for the role of a Musical or Comedy. The same year he was nominated to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the action movie Collateral (2004). Other roles that have been credited to him include the title character in the movie Django Unchained (2012), the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), and William Stacks in the modern version of Annie (2014).Jamie Foxx was born Eric Marlon Bishop in Terrell, Texas, to Louise Annette Talley and Darrell Bishop, who worked as a stockbroker. He later changed his name to Shahid Abdula. His mother was an adopted child. When her marriage to her father failed the grandparents of his mother, Mark and Estelle Talley came in and, at the age of seven months, adopted Jamie too. According to his account, he was a disciplined kid who was able to join the Boy Scouts as well as the church choir. In the high school years, he played the position of quarterback for his team at high school and was good enough that the team was invited to press in Dallas newspapers. He majored in music at college. He released an album of music,