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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.
Jamie Foxx
Officer Elliot
for Officer Elliot in The Ones That Wait In The Dark
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“The Ones That Wait In The Dark” follows a young anthropologist, Dr. Rowan Stone, who is drawn to a remote Navajo reservation in the American Southwest. Intrigued by local legends of terrifying shape-shifting creatures known as skinwalkers, he embarks on a research project to uncover the truth behind these dark myths. As Rowan delves deeper into the community, he encounters a series of unexplained and increasingly violent events. Livestock and Humans are found mutilated, strange noises echo through the night, and eerie shadows seem to lurk in the Periphery. The locals whisper of a malevolent force, a skinwalker, that has been awakened and is wreaking havoc upon the land and its people. Rowan, skeptical at first, begins to question his sanity as he witnesses bizarre occurrences firsthand.
