Eric Marlon Bishop is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and comedian from Texas who goes by the stage name Jamie Foxx. Foxx is only the second man in history, after Al Pacino, to be nominated for two acting Oscars in the same year for two different films. He first appeared on TV as a member of the cast of In Living Color. In 1996, he got his own sitcom.

He is also well-known for his parts in the movies “Just Mercy“, “Baby Driver”, “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”, and “Django Unchained”. He is one of the world’s 50 most beautiful people.

The Net Worth of Jamie Foxx

American actor, producer, singer, and comedian Jamie Foxx has a $170 million net worth. Jamie is one of the most sought-after and well-paid actors in Hollywood. He can act, sing, write, and produce, among other things.

Eric Marlon Bishop was born on December 13, 1967, in Terrell, Texas. Foxx was taken in by his grandparents, Esther Marie and Mark Talley, soon after he was born. They raised him. Jamie had a very strict Baptist upbringing, but he gives his career success to his grandmother’s influence on his life.

Net Worth:	$170 Million
Age:	55
Born:	December 13, 1967
Gender:	Male
Height:	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Country of Origin:	United States of America
Source of Wealth:	Professional Actor/Singer

He started playing the piano when he was five, and by the time he was in elementary school, he was already well-known for his funny jokes. Foxx got great grades in high school, played basketball, and was the quarterback for the football team. He got a scholarship to study music and performing art composition at the United States International University.

Jamie has been in a lot of great movies, like “Jarhead”, “Miami Vice”, “The Soloist”, “Valentine’s Day”, “I’m Still Here”, “Due Date”, “Horrible Bosses“, “Django Unchained”, “Annie”, “White House Down”, “Horrible Bosses 2”, and “Baby Driver”. Jamie Foxx is also a recording artist who has won a Grammy. The album “Peep This,” which was his first, didn’t get much attention. But the RIAA gave him a double-platinum award for his second album, “Unpredictable,” which was his most popular album.

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Source of Income

Jamie Foxx is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and comedian from the state of Texas. Foxx began his career as a comedian in 1989, which is when he first achieved widespread notoriety. That was the beginning of his career as an actor.

Comedian, Host, and Producer

Foxx started doing stand-up comedy at the beginning of 1989. Then, he helped make and star in The Jamie Foxx Show, a popular sitcom that ran from 1996 to 2001 on the WB Network.

Jamie Foxx started The Foxxhole, a Sirius Satellite Radio channel, in 2007. The channel has talk radio shows, albums of stand-up comedy, music mostly by African-American artists, and a lot of Foxx’s own work. Since the first episode aired on Fox in 2017, Jamie Foxx has been both the host and the executive producer of the show. Jamie Foxx has been the host and executive producer of Beat Shazam since it first aired on Fox in 2017.

Foxx helped make “White Famous,” a 2017 Showtime comedy about Jamie Foxx’s early career. The show only ran for one season before it was canceled. In 2019 on Live in Front of a Studio Audience: ABC, Foxx played George Jefferson in Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons.

Acting Career

Foxx’s acting career began in 1991 when he was cast as a recurring character in the sketch comedy TV show In Living Color. He was in 95 episodes of the show. In 1992, he played the part of Baker in the fantasy comedy film Toys. The movie didn’t do well at the box office, so it didn’t help him get into Hollywood.

In the 1999 movie “Any Given Sunday,” he played football player Willie Beamen. This was his first major film role, and critics praised him for it. In 2004, he was in the movie Collateral, in which a taxi driver is taken hostage, and Ray, a biopic of the musician Ray Charles that did well at the box office and won him a lot of praise.

The Soloist, Miami Vice, and Stealth are all important movies he made in the 2000s. During the 2010s, he was cast in several movies. Some of his best-known movies from the early 2010s are Rio, Django Unchained, and White House Down.

Jamie also played a role in The Amazing Spider-Man, and she started 2014 with the popular sequel Rio 2. After that, he was in the movies Baby Driver, Robin Hood, QT8: The First Eight, and Just Mercy.

He was in the Netflix comedies “Dad, Stop Embarrassing Me!” and “Project Power,” which were about superhumans, and he played Electro in “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” In 2020, he also lent his voice to “Soul,” a computer-animated fantasy comedy-drama.

Music Career

Foxx, a recording artist who has won multiple awards, has released five studio albums. His first album, “Peep This,” released in 1994, was a commercial failure. The RIAA certified his second album “Unpredictable” (2005) as double-platinum, making it his most successful. The album has sold 1.98 million copies in the United States to date. His chart-topping singles include “Unpredictable” (with Ludacris), “Blame It” (with T-Pain), and “Fall for Your Type” (featuring Drake).

Foxx also appeared on the number-one singles “Slow Jamz” by Twista (with Kanye West) and “Gold Digger” by Kanye West. Foxx is well-known for his collaborations across genres. Foxx was featured on 2005 single “Georgia” by Ludacris and Field Mob, which sampled the Ray Charles song “Georgia on my Mind.”

A longtime fan of country music, he recorded “She Goes All the Way” in 2007 with Rascal Flats. He also performed “You Look So Good in Love” by George Strait at the Artist of the Decade All-Star Concert. Fox began his 2009 BET Awards hosting duties with a rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.”

On May 25, 2017, Fox became the host and executive producer of the Fox game show Beat Shazam. On January 31, 2020, the show’s fourth season was confirmed.

Real Estate & Cars Collection

House:

Jamie bought the one-story house in 1997 for about $930k. It was built in 1949 and had been updated. The mansion is on more than 84 acres and is in the Los Angeles, California, suburb of Tarzana. The house is now 6,000 square feet and has 5 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms.

In 2007, Jamie Foxx paid $10.5 million for an eco-friendly property in Hidden Valley. This huge mansion is on more than 40 acres of land and is near Thousand Oaks, which is about 40 miles from downtown Los Angeles.

Cars Collection:

He first spent $495,000 on a Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe. He then kept buying cars that were more expensive, such as:

• Buggati Veyron                    $2 million
• Rezvani Tank                        $350,000
• McLaren 570 S                      $230,000
• Lamborghini Urus                $330,000
• Rolls Royce Cullinan            $500,000
• Mercedes Benz G Wagon    $220,000

Awards and Honor

Jamie Foxx is one of the best actors in Hollywood, and he has won a lot of awards for his work over the years. First, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2005 for his role in the movie Ray.

It was Jamie Foxx’s best year, and he has won a number of other awards, including the

• Ray won awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
• The song “Blame It” with T-Pain won a BET Award.
• The movie Ray won two Golden Globes.
• The movie Ray won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor.

Jamie Foxx won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for his song “Blame It” with T-Pain. Along with this, he was nominated for the Grammy Awards seven times.

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Personal Life

Jamie is known for keeping quiet about his personal life. Corinne, who was born in 1994, and Anelise are his daughters (b.2009). Corinne, his daughter, is a model and an actress. She has worked with Foxx on “Beat Shazam” as a co-host. Foxx and Katie Holmes were together for a long time after she broke up with Tom Cruise in 2012. In August 2019, it was said that their relationship was over.

Foxx and his sister were kicked out of the Harrah’s Casino in New Orleans, Louisiana, in April 2003 because they were involved in a fight. Employees of the casino said that they did not show ID when they got in. Foxx was accused of hitting police officers, resisting arrest, breaking the law, and making noise. He pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace so that the other charges could be dropped. He was put on probation for two years and told to pay a $1,500 fine.

On January 18, 2016, Foxx pulled a drunk driver out of a car that had crashed outside his house and was on fire. The driver was going fast when the truck went off the road and into a ditch, where it rolled over several times.

Final Thoughts

It’s amazing that Jamie Foxx went from being a stand-up comedian to being one of the most famous actors and singers in the world. With a net worth of $170 million, he has had a very successful career. His great performances have earned him praise from critics and many awards. Jamie Foxx is a well-liked figure in the entertainment industry because he can play many different types of roles, add depth and complexity to them, and sing very well. He has definitely left a mark on Hollywood, and that mark will last for many years to come.