Jamie Foxx

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Janet Milburn
7/3/23

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Biological son of Mark Talley and <private> Nelson
Adopted son of <private> Abdullah and <private> Dixon (Talley)

Jamie Foxx
Added October 20, 2019 by Karen Sue Showell (Stribling)
Collection:Biographical Summaries of Notable People
Birth:Dec 13 1967 - Terrell
Parents:Louise Annette Talley Dixon, Darrell Bishop, Esther Marie Talley, Mark Talley
Siblings:Deidra Dixon, Diondra Dixon
Children:Corinne Bishop, Annalise Bishop

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Jamie Foxx Was Abandoned As A Baby And 45 Years Later He Tracks Down Birth Mom For Answers

We have heard stories of actors and musicians facing similar issues and the story of Jamie Foxx’s childhood abandonment had left everyone in tears. Life for the multitalented actor, musician, comedian, and Oscar-winner wasn’t always so smooth.

Jamie Foxx was born Eric Marlon Bishop (1967) in Terrell, Texas, to Louise Annette Talley and Darrell Bishop, who worked as a stockbroker and had later changed his name to Shahid Abdula. His mother was an adopted child. At just 7 months old, he was is abandoned by both his parents, leaving him to be raised and officially adopted by his maternal grandparents, Mark and Esther Talley. Esther Talley had a profound impact on her adopted son, and in interviews, Foxx credits her as being his inspiration.

“My grandmother was 60 years old when she adopted me,” Foxx remarked to Josh Tyrangiel ofTime. “She ran a nursery school and had a library in the house. She saw me reading early, saw I was smart and believed I was born to achieve truly special things.”

Foxx has said that he had a very rigid upbringing that placed him in the Boy Scouts and the church choir and started piano lessons at the age of three at his grandmother’s insistence. Although strict, Estelle undeniably provided Jamie with a loving and nurturing home and was an incredible support to him. He was appreciative that his grandmother was there to give him the care and support he needed to become successful in life but, that never stopped him from wondering about his biological parents and why they left him. It was a constant struggle to comprehend that they never reached out to him.

Jamie was only seventeen when Mark Talley died. But Estelle Talley didn’t pass away until October 2004, at the age of ninety-five. Jamie was left heartbroken.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Foxx

Eric Marlon Bishop, professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and singer. As an actor, his work in the 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/comedy. He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing two albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, and Intuition.

After his parents' marriage dissolved, Foxx was adopted by his maternal grandparents when he was less than a year old.

Estelle Marie Nelson wife of Mark Talley, maternal grandmother of Jamie Foxx
Birth
7 May 1908 - Terrell County, Texas, USA
Death
23 October 2004 - Terrell, Kaufman, Texas, USA
Mother
Alice Timpleton
Father
Jesse Nelson
Born in Terrell County, Texas, USA on 7 May 1908 to Jesse Nelson and Alice Timpleton. Estelle Marie Nelson married Mark Talley and had 1 child. She passed away on 23 October 2004 in Terrell, Kaufman, Texas, USA.

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Jamie Foxx - Wikipedia
Born in Terrell, Texas, Foxx is the son of Darrell Bishop (renamed Shahid Abdula following his conversion to Islam), who sometimes worked as a stockbroker, and Louise Annette Talley Dixon.

He enjoyed sports and music as a child, and attended Terrell High School in his hometown.

After accepting a girlfriend's dare, Foxx told jokes and did impressions at a comedy club's open mic night in 1989. When he found that female comedians were often called first to perform, he changed his name to Jamie Foxx, feeling that it was an ambiguous enough name to disallow any biases. He chose his surname as a tribute to comedian Redd Foxx.

Foxx joined the cast of In Living Color in 1991 and subsequently played a recurring role in the comedy-drama sitcom Roc. From 1996 to 2001, Foxx starred in his own sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, and in 1992 he made his film debut.

Foxx made his film debut in the 1992 comedy Toys. His first dramatic role came in Oliver Stone's 1999 film Any Given Sunday, where he portrayed a hard-partying American football player. He was cast in the role in part because of his background as a football player. Foxx has since evolved into a respected dramatic actor. Following Any Given Sunday, Foxx was featured as taxi driver Max Durocher in the film Collateral alongside Tom Cruise, for which he received outstanding reviews and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His standout performance, however, was his portrayal of Ray Charles in the biopic Ray (2004), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Foxx is the second male in history to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the same year for two different movies, Collateral and Ray. The only other male actor to achieve this was Al Pacino. In 2005, Foxx was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Following these successes, Foxx appeared in Jarhead, Miami Vice, and Dreamgirls, which were box-office hits, and lifted his profile even higher as a bankable star in Hollywood. 2007 brought him the lead role in the film The Kingdom opposite Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner and Ashraf Barhom.

In September 2007, Foxx was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He said, upon receiving the honor, "[it was] one of the most amazing days of my life."

In April 2009, Foxx played the lead role in the dramatic film The Soloist.

While pursuing his acting career, Foxx also delved into music. He released his first album in 1994 entitled Peep This. However, it was not until 2004 that his music career shifted into higher gear when he was featured on rapper Twista's song, "Slow Jamz", which also featured Kanye West. The song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, as well as number three on the UK singles chart. Foxx's second collaboration with Kanye West, "Gold Digger," in which he sang the "I Got a Woman" Ray Charles-influenced hook, went straight to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and remained there for 10 weeks. In 2005, Foxx was featured on the single "Georgia" by Atlanta rappers Ludacris and Field Mob. The song sampled Ray Charles' hit "Georgia on My Mind."

Foxx released his second studio album,Unpredictable in December 2005. It debuted at number two, selling 598,000 copies in its first week. The following week, the album rose to number one, selling an additional 200,000 copies. To date, the album has sold 1.98 million copies in the United States, and was certified double Platinum by the RIAA. The album also charted on the UK Albums Chart, where it peaked at number nine. Foxx became the fourth artist to have won an Academy Award for an acting role and to have achieved a number-one record album in the US. (The other three to accomplish this feat were Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Barbra Streisand.) Foxx's first single from the album, the title track "Unpredictable" (featuring Ludacris), samples "Wildflower" by New Birth. The song peaked inside the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and also made the UK top 20 singles chart. The second US single from the album was "DJ Play a Love Song," which reunited Foxx with Twista. In the UK, however, the second single was "Extravaganza," which saw Foxx once again collaborate with Kanye West. He was not, however, featured in the song's music video.

At the 2006 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards, Foxx won Best Duet/Collaboration with Kanye West for "Gold Digger" and tied with Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You" for Video of the year. On December 8, 2006, Foxx received four Grammy nominations, which included Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for Love Changes featuring Mary J. Blige, Best R&B Album for Unpredictable, Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for Georgia by Ludacris & Field Mob featuring Jamie Foxx, and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for Unpredictable featuring Ludacris.

On January 22, 2007, Foxx was on Sirius Satellite Radio, announcing his new channel The Foxxhole. The channel features comedy and music primarily by African-American performers, and features much of Foxx's own material as well. The Jamie Foxx Show, a talk-radio program, airs Friday evenings on The Foxxhole, and features Johnny Mack, Speedy, Claudia Jordan, The Poetess, and Lewis Dix as his co-hosts. Guests include popular musicians, actors, and fellow comedians.

He recorded a song with country superstars Rascal Flatts entitled "She Goes All the Way" for their album, Still Feels Good. Foxx also performed background vocals for artist/songwriter Tank. He and The-Dream are featured on Plies' "Please Excuse My Hands." He also appeared on the remix of Ne-Yo's "Miss Independent" entitled "She Got Her Own." The track also features Fabolous. Foxx then collaborated with rapper The Game on the track "Around The World."

Foxx released his third album titled Intuition featuring such artists as Kanye West, T.I., Lil Wayne, and T-Pain. The album's first single, "Just Like Me" featuring T.I., was promoted by a video directed by Brett Ratner and featuring an appearance by Taraji P. Henson. The second single "Blame It" featured T-Pain and became a top 5 single on the Billboard Hot 100 and a number-one single on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The "Blame It" music video, directed by Hype Williams, features cameo appearances by Forest Whitaker, Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Howard, Quincy Jones, and Jake Gyllenhaal, among others. Foxx was also featured on T.I.'s single "Live in the Sky" from the album King.

On April 6, 2009 Foxx performed the George Strait song "You Look So Good in Love" at the George Strait Artist of the Decade All-Star Concert. Foxx has been a fan of country music for many years.

His fourth album "Body", was released on March 2, 2010. The first single is "Speak French".

Foxx will mentor the four finalists on season 9 of American Idol in songs of the cinema week.

Personal life

Foxx in 2005
Foxx has two daughters: model, actress and television producer Corinne Foxx, born in 1994;[8] and another daughter born in 2009.[66] Corinne made her formal debut at the Bal des débutantes in November 2014 and was named Miss Golden Globe 2016 on November 18, 2015.[67]

In 2008, Foxx filmed a public service announcement for Do Something to promote food drives in local communities.[68]

From 2013 to 2019, Foxx was rumored to be in a relationship with actress Katie Holmes.[69][70]

On January 18, 2016, he rescued a young man from a burning vehicle that crashed outside his home. The driver, Brett Kyle, was driving his truck "at a high rate of speed" when it left the road, traveled into a drainage ditch, and rolled over several times. Kyle was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.[71][72]

On October 26, 2020, Foxx announced via Instagram that his 36-year-old sister Deondra Dixon had died. She was born with Down syndrome and had been an ambassador for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation.[73]

On April 12, 2023, Foxx's daughter, Corinne, announced that he had been hospitalized after an unspecified medical emergency, but that he was recovering.[74][75] On May 12, amid conflicting reports about the nature of Foxx's condition, including rumors that he was gravely ill, Corinne Foxx said that her father had been "out of the hospital for weeks, recuperating".[76] Since late April, Foxx has reportedly been treated in a "physical rehab facility in Chicago" that specializes in "strokes and brain injuries".[77]
Source: Wikipedia

Added by Janet Milburn 7/3/23

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