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}} Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, comedian, writer, film producer, and film director. As an actor, his work in the 2004 Ray Charles biographical film ''Ray'' earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical or comedy. The same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the action film ''Collateral''. Other prominent roles include the title role in the film ''Django Unchained'' (2012), the supervillain Electro in ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'' (2014) and William Stacks in the 2014 version of ''Annie''. Foxx also starred in the 1990-1994 sketch comedy show ''In Living Color'' and his own television show from 1996 to 2001, the sitcom ''The Jamie Foxx Show'', in which he played Jamie King. He is also a Grammy Award-winning musician, producing three albums which have charted highly on the US ''Billboard'' 200: ''Unpredictable'' (2005), which topped the chart, ''Intuition'' (2008), and ''Best Night of My Life'' (2010). == Early life == Foxx was born in Terrell, Texas on December 13, 1967. He is the son of Darrell Bishop (renamed Shahid Abdula following his conversion to Islam),〔http://www.jamie-foxx.us/jamie/facts/〕 who sometimes worked as a stockbroker, and Louise Annette Talley Dixon. Shortly after his birth, Foxx was adopted and raised by his mother's adoptive parents, Esther Marie (Nelson), a domestic worker and nursery operator, and Mark Talley, a yard worker.〔(''Inside the Actors Studio''. Jamie Foxx, Season 11, Episode 1104. ) November 28, 2004.〕 He has had little contact with his birth parents, who were not part of his upbringing. Foxx was raised in the black quarter of Terrell, which at the time was a racially segregated community.〔Rader, Dotson. (Jamie Foxx. ) Timesonline.co.uk. November 20, 2005.〕 He has often acknowledged his grandmother's influence in his life as one of the greatest reasons for his success.〔 Foxx began playing the piano when he was five years old. He had a strict Baptist upbringing,〔 and as a teenager he was a part-time pianist and choir leader in Terrell's New Hope Baptist Church.〔 His natural talent for telling jokes was already in evidence as a second grader, when his teacher would use him as a reward: if the class behaved, Foxx would tell them jokes. Foxx attended Terrell High School, where he received top grades and played basketball and football (as quarterback). His ambition was to play for the Dallas Cowboys, and he was the first player in the school's history to pass for more than 1,000 yards.〔 He also sang in a band called Leather and Lace.〔 After completing high school, Foxx received a scholarship to United States International University, where he studied classical music and composition.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jamie Foxx」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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