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JAMIE FOXX BIOGRAPHY |
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Jamie Foxx was born December 13, 1967 in Terrell,
Texas. His orginal name was Eric Bishop. When his parents
marriage failed, his grandparents, Mark and Esther Talley,
stepped in and at age 7 months adopted him. During high school,
he played quarterback for his high school team and was good
enough that he got press in Dallas newspapers. He studied music
in college. He released a music album in 1994, "Peep This" and
sings the theme song for his 1999 movie, "Any Given Sunday".
However, in 1989 his life changed when a girl firend challenged
him to get up onstage at the Comedy Club. In fact, he says he
took his androgynous stage name because he learned that women
got preference for mike time on open stage nights. That led to
his being cast in "Roc" and "In Living Color" and ultimately to
his own Fox network tv series.
By the mid-1990s, stand-up comic Jamie Foxx had begun to parlay
his work in comedy clubs and on the TV sketch comedy "In Living
Color" into a feature film career. Foxx had begun performing in
comedy clubs soon after reaching Los Angeles in 1989. Within the
next few years, he appeared on stage at The Comedy Store and The
Improv, and at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem. He won the
1991 Oakland (California) Comedy Competition. That same year,
Foxx joined the cast of Fox's variety show "In Living Color" as
one of the sketch players, creating Wanda, one of the ugliest
women in the world. In 1992, Foxx won his first feature role, a
supporting part to Robin Williams, in "Toys". In 1996, he had
supporting roles in two features, the uneven comedy "The Great
White Hype", as a boxer's manager, and "The Truth About Cats and
Dogs" (1996), as Ben Chaplin's friend trying to make sense of
the confusion. Foxx has continued to perform comedy on TV. He
was a guest on "Paul Rodriguez: Crossing Gang Lines", a 1991 Fox
special, and has appeared on HBO's "Def Comedy Jam". In 1993, he
starred in the one-man concert special, "Jamie Foxx: Straight
From the Foxxhole" (HBO) and three years later was back in his
own sitcom, "The Jamie Foxx Show" (The WB, 1996-2001). In the
latter, he played an ambitious actor who goes to work for
relatives at a somewhat run-down hotel. He's also starred in
films such as Booty Call (1997), Any Given Sunday (1999), Date
from Hell (2000) and Ali (2001). |
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