As the actor recuperates from a “medical complication,” EW rounds up his most notable performances.
Years ago, a young boy named Eric Marlon Bishop aspired to be a professional football player.
That’s whenJamie Foxxwas born.
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The actorselected his gender-neutral stage namewhen he realized that female performers were often called first at open mics.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Its story is also big-hearted and ultimately redemptive, with a sympathetic view of the women at its core.
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Where to watchThe Players Club: Amazon Prime Video (to rent)
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Where to watchThe Soloist: Max
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It was a lifestyle.
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Where to watchIn Living Color: Not available to stream
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Where to watchAny Given Sunday: Amazon Prime Video (to rent)
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Electro, inMarc Webb’stroubledfollow-up toThe Amazing Spider-Man(2012), towers above his contemporaries.
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Where to watchThe Amazing Spider-Man 2: Starz
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What the series gets right is mostly due to Foxx’s performance.
Where to watchThe Jamie Foxx Show: Max
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Where to watchAli: Starz
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But I wanted to play the Black guy.
Where to watchBaby Driver: Amazon Prime Video (to rent)
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Where to watchJust Mercy: Amazon Prime Video (to rent)
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Where to watchSoul: Disney+
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(Though his 90-minute cut ofDeath Proofcomes very close, as well.)
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Where to watchDjango Unchained: Paramount+
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Though this may be among the hardest gigs in Hollywood, Foxx makes it look tremendously easy on screen.
Not only does Cruise havethe flashier role, buthe’s Tom Cruise.
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In a terrific film, Foxx is one of the very best things.
Where to watchCollateral: Pluto TV
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Fresh off ofCollateral,Raysent Foxx into the Hollywood stratosphere and won him a well-deserved Oscar for Best Actor.
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His performance here is real, vital, and filled with emotion.
You feel his pain, with some sequences practically begging you to turn away from the screen.
Where to watchRay: Hulu
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