33 Facts About Jamie Foxx

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

2. Jamie Foxx is the son of Darrell Bishop, who sometimes worked as a stockbroker, and Louise Annette Talley Dixon.

3. Shortly after his birth, Jamie Foxx was adopted and raised by his mother's adoptive parents, Estelle Marie, a domestic worker and nursery operator, and Mark Talley, a yard worker.

4. Jamie Foxx was raised in the black quarter of Terrell, which at the time was a racially segregated community.

5. Jamie Foxx began playing the piano when he was five years old.

6. Jamie Foxx joined the cast of In Living Color in 1991, where his recurrent character Wanda shared a name with Redd's friend and co-worker, LaWanda Page.

7. In 2001, Jamie Foxx starred opposite Will Smith in Michael Mann's biographical drama Ali.

8. In 1994, Jamie Foxx released an album entitled Peep This, which was not commercially successful.

9. In 2003, Jamie Foxx made a cameo in Benzino's music video for "Would You", which features LisaRaye McCoy and Mario Winans.

10. In 2005, Jamie Foxx featured on the single "Georgia" by Atlanta rappers Ludacris and Field Mob, which sampled Ray Charles' hit "Georgia on My Mind".

11. Jamie Foxx released his second studio album, Unpredictable, in December 2005.

12. Jamie Foxx became the fourth artist to have both won an Academy Award for an acting role and to have achieved a No 1 album in the US, joining Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Barbra Streisand.

13. In September 2007, Jamie Foxx was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: "[it was] one of the most amazing days of my life," said Jamie Foxx.

14. Jamie Foxx featured alongside The-Dream on Plies' "Please Excuse My Hands.

15. Jamie Foxx collaborated with rapper The Game on the track "Around the World".

16. Jamie Foxx hosted the 2009 BET Awards ceremony on June 28, 2009, which featured several tributes to pop star Michael Jackson, who had died three days prior to the show.

17. Jamie Foxx belongs to us and we shared him with everybody else.

18. In 2011, Jamie Foxx featured on the rapper Pitbull's album Planet Pit, in the song "Where Do We Go".

19. In 2012, Jamie Foxx starred in the title role of the Quentin Tarantino written and directed Django Unchained.

20. On November 25, 2012, at BET's Soul Train Awards, Jamie Foxx joked: "It's like church in here.

21. In 2013, Jamie Foxx was cast as President James Sawyer in White House Down alongside Channing Tatum.

22. In 2017, Jamie Foxx starred as Bats, a trigger-happy gang member, in Edgar Wright's action film Baby Driver.

23. On May 22, 2019, Jamie Foxx appeared as George Jefferson in Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons on ABC.

24. Jamie Foxx starred in Project Power, directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dominique Fishback, which was released on August 14, 2020, by Netflix.

25. Jamie Foxx reprised his role as Electro in Spider-Man: No Way Home, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

26. In 2021, Jamie Foxx released the memoir Act Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me, which focused on his family life, both as a child and as an adult.

27. On May 29, 2018, Jamie Foxx was cast as Al Simmons in a planned reboot of the Spawn film franchise, to be directed by Todd McFarlane.

28. In 2015, Jamie Foxx became attached to portray former boxer Mike Tyson in a biographical drama film Finding Mike; in 2020, he began to exercise in order to gain muscle for the role.

29. In 2018, a woman reported to the Las Vegas Police Department that Jamie Foxx assaulted her in 2002.

30. In 2008, Jamie Foxx filmed a public service announcement for Do Something to promote food drives in local communities.

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

32. On January 18, 2016, Jamie Foxx rescued a young man from a burning vehicle that crashed outside his home.

33. On October 26, 2020, Jamie Foxx announced via Instagram that his 36-year-old sister Deondra Dixon had died.