American actor, singer and comedian Jamie Foxx was rushed to hospital in a hospital in the city of Atlanta, in the state of Georgia, due to a “medical complication”, as reported by his family members through social networks.
The daughter of the Oscar winner for radius (2004), Corinne, was responsible for posting a statement on Instagram in the last few hours: “We wanted to share that my father, Jamie Foxx, experienced a medical complication on Tuesday. Fortunately thanks to the quick intervention and great attention he’s already on the mend“, begins the text, which does not reveal the reason for the hospitalization.
“We know how much he is loved and we appreciate your prayers. The family requests privacy during this time,” Corinne concluded.
Although no North American media has been able to contact Foxx’s relatives so far, entertainment news site TMZ reported that the artist’s health incident occurred Tuesday morning in Atlanta and generated such concern that members of his family who were not in town rushed to accompany him.
a successful career
The 55-year-old Texas-born actor was in the South American city filming a comedy for Netflix titled Back in actionwhich will mark the return of Cameron Diaz after his retirement from the industry nine years ago.
The film, which was shot in England last month, is directed by Seth Gordon and also stars Glenn Close, Andrew Scott and Kyle Chandler.
Actor, comedian, record producer and R&B singer, Jamie Foxx real name is Eric Marlon Bishop.
He began playing the piano at an early age and later took classical piano classes at university. In 1994 he recorded his first album under his own titled record label Check this out, with which he achieved little commercial success. In 2001 she hosted the MTV Video Music Awards.
He became known to the musical public with his collaboration on the single Slow jam from Twista with Kanye West. This song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #3 in the UK. His second musical appearance was in Kanye West’s hit, Gold diggernumber one on the Hot 100 for ten weeks.
In 2005 he collaborated on the theme Georgia with Ludacris and Field Mob. The song sampled the classic Georgia in my mind by Ray Charles, who sang at the 2005 Grammys with Alicia Keys and Quincy Jones.
In cinema, he became known for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the biopic radius of 2004, for which won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor, being one of the few African-American actors to win major film industry awards.
That same year, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime drama collateral. He also played ex-slave Djando in a Tarantino film and the character of Electro In The Extraordinary Spiderman 2 in 2014 and in Spider-Man: There’s no way back home of 2021.
Source: Clarin
