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Jamie Foxx

American comedian, actor and singer (born 1967)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Eric Marlon Bishop, known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, comedian, singer, and film producer. He gained his career breakthrough as a featured player in the sketch comedy show In Living Color from 1991 to 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.

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The public source identifies “Jamie Foxx” as american comedian, actor and singer (born 1967). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jamie, Foxx and American.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1994, 1996, 2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jamie, Foxx and American providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1991, 1994, 1996 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jamie Foxx” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.