USA: Jamie Foxx gets his star on the Hollywood "Walk of Fame."

Getting a star on the Hollywood "Walk of Fame" is a dream come true for Academy Award winning actor Jamie Foxx. Multi-talented Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx received the 2,347th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Friday (September 14), two weeks before the release of his newest film "The Kingdom." The late-morning ceremony took place in front of the Kodak Theatre, where Foxx received his best actor Academy Award in 2005 for his portrayal of musician Ray Charles in "Ray." In "The Kingdom," Foxx portrays an FBI special agent who assembles an elite team of agents to go into Saudi Arabia to find a terrorist who detonated a bomb inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh. "I want to thank the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for allowing my dream to come true," said Foxx "My grandmother would bring us to Los Angeles when we were kids and we would walk and see the stars and now to be a part of history, they can never take this away from me. For as long as I live and for as long as the earth exist, my star will be right there and I want to thank everyone who supports me. I want to thank my mother, my father, my sisters and my daughter and my friends and all of my extended family. I can't thank you enough." Honorary Hollywood Mayor Johnny Grant noted during the ceremony that Foxx could qualify in all five Walk of Fame star categories. Born Eric Marlon Bishop on Dec. 13, 1967, in Terrell, Texas, Foxx was a high school quarterback who went on to study classical piano at Juilliard after taking lessons from the age of three. In 1989, a girlfriend challenged him to go onstage at a comedy club, leading to a career as a successful standup comic. Foxx's stand-up comedy success led him to being cast in 1991 on the Fox Broadcasting sketch comedy series "In Living Color." From 1996-2001 he starred in The WB comedy, "The Jamie Foxx Show." Foxx's big break in his movie career came in 1999 when director Oliver Stone cast him as quarterback Willie Beamen in the football drama "Any Given Sunday." Foxx went on to co-star with Tom Cruise in the 2004 film "Collateral," for which he received a best supporting actor Oscar nomination. His other movie credits include "Dreamgirls" and "Miami Vice."

ITN Source | September 20, 2007

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