Jamie Foxx Profile, Age, Height, Weight, Family, Affairs, Biography & More

Jamie Foxx is an American actor, comedian, and singer. He became widely known for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film Ray, for which he won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics’ Choice Movie Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. That same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film Collateral. Since 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the Fox game show Beat Shazam.

Other acting roles include Staff Sergeant Sykes in Jarhead (2005), record executive Curtis Taylor Jr. in Dreamgirls (2006), Detective Ricardo Tubbs in the 2006 film adaptation of TV series Miami Vice, the title role in the film Django Unchained (2012) , the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Will Stacks in Annie (2014), gangster Bats / Leon Jefferson III in Baby Driver (2017) and as Walter McMillian in Just Mercy (2019), where he received a SAG Award nomination.

In 1991, Foxx joined the cast as a featured player in the sketch comedy show In Living Color until the show’s end in 1994. Following this success, he was given his own television sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, in which he starred, co-created and produced, airing for five highly rated seasons from 1996 to 2001 on The WB Television Network.

Foxx is also a Grammy Award-winning musician, producing four albums, which have charted in the top ten of the U.S. Billboard 200: Unpredictable (2005), which topped the chart, Intuition (2008), Best Night of My Life (2010) , and Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses (2015).

Foxx has two daughters: model, actress and television producer Corinne Foxx, born in 1994; and another daughter born in 2009. Corinne made her formal debut at the Bal des Debutantes in November 2014 and was named Miss Golden Globe 2016 on November 18, 2015.In 2008, Foxx filmed a public service announcement for Do Something to promote food drives in local communities.

From 2013 to 2019, Foxx was rumored to be in a relationship with actress Katie Holmes.

On January 18, 2016, he rescued a young man from a burning vehicle that crashed outside his home. The driver, Brett Kyle, was driving his truck “at a high rate of speed” when it left the road, traveled into a drainage ditch, and rolled over several times. Kyle was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.

On October 26, 2020, Foxx announced via Instagram that his 36-year-old sister Deondra Dixon had died. She was born with Down syndrome and had been an ambassador for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation.