Jamie Foxx

Born Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967, he broke through as a sketch player on In Living Color from 1991 to 1994, then landed his own sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show, which he starred in, co-created, and produced until 2001. In 2004 he inhabited Ray Charles so fully he took the Academy Award for Best Actor — and earned a second Oscar nomination that same year for Collateral. He built a second career as an R&B singer, scoring two number-one Billboard singles with features on "Slow Jamz" and "Gold Digger," and a Grammy for "Blame It"; four of his five albums cracked the top ten, with Unpredict…