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Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, and comedian. He gained his career breakthrough as a featured player in the sketch comedy show In Living Colour until the show's end in 1994. Following this success, he was given his own sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show, in which he starred, co-created, and produced from 1996 to 2001. Foxx received acclaim for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the film Ray (2004), winning the Academy Award, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild 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. He gained prominence for his film roles in Booty Call (1997), Ali (2001), Jarhead (2005), Dreamgirls (2006), Miami Vice (2006), Horrible Bosses (2011), Django Unchained (2012), Annie (2014), Baby Driver (2017), and Soul (2020). He played the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). For playing Walter McMillian in Just Mercy (2019), he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Foxx also embarked on a successful career as an R&B singer in the 2000s. He earned two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with his features on the singles "Slow Jamz" by Twista alongside Kanye West and "Gold Digger" by the former. His single "Blame It" won him the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Four of his five studio albums 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). Since 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the Fox game show Beat Shazam. In 2021, he wrote his autobiography Act Like You Got Some Sense.

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The Weight Of The Cross is an American neo-Western action thriller miniseries created by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde and developed by Angel for their streaming service of the same name. The second prequel to Wyoming's Cross and the third installment in the franchise by Angel about the American West, it stars Anne Hathaway and Chloë Grace Moretz, the latter reprising her role as Rose Stone, with newcomers Lucas Black, Terry Crews, Carrie Underwood, Stephen Baldwin, Mark Wahlberg, Matthew McConaughey, John Ratzenberger, Jamie Foxx, and Denzel Washington. The entire series is narrated by Dove Cameron, who portrayed Bailey Stone, the protagonist of Wyoming's Cross. Produced by Pinnacle Peak Pictures and Kendrick Brothers, the series's story is set during World War II and follows an older Rose (Hathaway), who finds herself forced to protect her ranch, and more importantly, her family, from Nazi supporters and greedy dealers, and other tyrants who want her land for nothing but profit. The Weight of the Cross premiered on January 1st, 2028, and eventually was released a month later on February 5th; like its predecessors, the series received universal acclaim. Critics, audiences and biblical viewers praised its depth, writing, action sequences, visuals, performances (particularly Hathaway, Black, and Washington), cinematography, score, and emotional weight. A final series is in development, which will also be the last prequel.