Celebrity Name : Jamie Foxx

Celebrity Real Name : Eric Bishop

Date of Birth : December 13, 1967

Birth Location : Terrell, Texas

Biography of Eric Bishop :
Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967 in Terrell, Texas), is an American Oscar-winning actor, Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling R&B singer, pianist, and comedian. He won the 2004 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Ray, a biopic about the life of the late musician Ray Charles.

Music Career :
Jamie Foxx is a singer and accomplished musician. He started playing piano at a young age, and later took classical piano lessons while attending college. In 1994, Foxx released an album (on the Fox record label) entitled Peep This, which was only mildly successful. In 2001, he hosted the MTV Video Music Awards.

Trivia :
* No relation to Redd Foxx whose real name was John Sanford. However, Jamie used the last name Foxx as a tribute to Sanford.
* His selection for the title role in Ray was personally approved by Ray Charles himself. Charles had helped train Foxx in understanding his process at the piano.
* Has a daughter that he took with him to the 2005 Academy Awards
* He had a very minor role as a soldier in Eddie Murphy’s 1988 comedy motion picture, Coming to America.
* He claims in a comedic way that he was the person who covered Janet Jackson’s breast in a semi-nude photoshoot including his own nude photo with his genitalia covered by “Michael Jackson’s” hand. The photos he presented in MTV Icon are obviously digitally edited. The special does not repeat anymore due to the Jackson trial.
* Cousin of Michael Bishop, a quarterback in the Arena Football League and Canadian Football League with the Chicago Rush and the Toronto Argonauts respectively. Bishop was also a former quarterback with the New England Patriots.[wikipedia]