Earl Marlon Bishop, better known to everyone by his nickname Jamie Foxx, is a well-known American singer, songwriter, actor, TV producer and a stand-up comedian who has been able to amass an estimated net worth valued at $110 million. For his work Jamie has earned many awards, including a BAFTA award, and now he is one of the richest musicians in the United States. He is the main personality on his own TV show called “The Jamie Foxx Show”, and until today he remains an active personality in the world of show business.
Jamie Foxx Net Worth $110 Million
Eric Marlon Bishop was born on December 13, 1967, in Terrell, Texas, US. He was raised by his grandparents from the mother’s side. During his school years Earl was an active teenager interested in music. Actually he started to play piano from five years old and later while attending the Terrell’s New Hope Baptist Church he was a pianist and also a choir leader. He finished school with great marks, and moreover he was known among the other kids as a great football and basketball player. He was even dreaming about associating his future life with sports, but when he got a chance to study classical music, he made a decision to pursue a career as a musician, and that’s how Foxx’s net worth started to grow.
Jamie Foxx started his career in show business in 1989 as a stand-up comedy performer, and was even able to increase his net worth while participating in a show of comedians called “In Living Color”. After three seasons the show ended, so Jamie created his own and called it simply “The Jamie Foxx Show” which aired from 1996 until 2001. In this show Earl M. Bishop had anopportunity to meet such popular people as Christopher B. Duncan, Garrett Morris, Garcelle Beauvais and Ellia English.
“The Jamie Fox Show” won several awards, such as NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Comedy Series and Kids’ Choice Awards, USA. This show actually increased Jamie Foxx’s net worth and also made him a household name among American people.
As a musician Jamie Foxx also managed to show his talent and increase his net worth as he released four albums. His debut album “Peep This” came out in 1994, later “Unpredictable” and “Intuition” were released, and the most recent one, “Best Night Of My Life”, was released in 2010, all of which could only make Foxx’s net worth bigger.
Earl Marlon Bishop is also known as a great actor, who performed in such popular movies as “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”, “Breakin’ All The Rules”, “A Million Ways to Die in the West”, “The Soloist”, “Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story” and many others. Furthermore, he has also been a voice actor and voiced Nico from the popular 3D animated family musical comedy film called “Rio”, so there is no doubt about how rich is Jamie Foxx. J. Foxx increases his net worth with every movie he appears in, and he doesn’t plan to stop his career any time soon.
