Jamie Foxx’s leap from TV to the big screen — in an era when the chasm between the two was gapingly vast — is one of the most notable cases of the early 2000s.
Only four years separate the end of The Jamie Foxx Show on the now defunct WB network and the actor’s staggering achievement of winning the Best Actor Oscar (for Ray) and being nominated for Best Supporting Actor (for Collateral) in the same year, 2005.
Since then, he’s headlined Django Unchained, co-starred in a couple of Spider-Man movies, voiced the lead in Pixar’s Soul and won a Grammy for his side career as a rapper.
Television’s caught up to film in many respects since The WB days, but news of Foxx’s return to the small screen — in a multi-cam family sitcom of all things —.
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