Marisa Miller

She's said that if she weren’t a model she’d be a sportscaster. Upcoming:. From an early age Marisa loved surfing, was a standout volleyball player on her high school team, and has long been a big sports fan in general. A performance by New Birth can be seen here:[1]. In 2004 she served as a modeling judge in the short-lived reality television series Manhunt: The Search for America's Most Gorgeous Male Model. (The other three to accomplish this feat were Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Barbra Streisand.) Foxx's Upredictable single samples "WildFlower" by New Birth. She's also appeared in other magazines such as Fitness, Shape, and Vogue, as well as worked on campaigns for Nordstrom, J.Crew, and Tommy Hilfiger. 1 album.

Atypically, she was able to move from a start as a nude magazine model to high profile mainstream work with the likes of no less than Victoria’s Secret and the coveted Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue (2001, 2003, 2004, and 2005). Foxx also becomes the fourth artist to have won an Academy Award for acting (for his portrayal of Charles in Ray) and achieved a No. Although she came in third behind Ashley Degenford and Monica Hansen in Perfect 10's first annual model search, she was repeatedly showcased in following issues, including the covers of the Winter 1998, Aug/Sept 1999, and Fall 2004 editions. 1 since February 2005, when Ray Charles' "Genius Loves Company" (Hear Music/Concord) pulled off the feat. Marisa Lee Miller (born Santa Cruz, California, August 6, 1978) is a buxom American model who first gained attention when she appeared in the 1997 premiere issue of Perfect 10 magazine. Unpredictable is the first album to ascend to the top without having debuted at No. 2, Unpredictable rose to the top of the Billboard pop album chart, with 2nd-week sales of 200,000 copies in the United States.

After debuting in the first week at No. Blige's selling 730,000 copies of The Breakthrough that same week. #1 spot due to Mary J. It sold over 598,000 copies in its first week but didn't reach the U.S.

Unpredictable is Jamie Foxx's second studio release. Foxx received a nomination for a 2006 Grammy Award for Best R&B Male Vocal Performance ("Creepin"). During the 2005 Grammy Awards, Foxx performed live with Alicia Keys and Quincy Jones singing "Georgia on My Mind" in tribute to the late Ray Charles. Foxx's second collaboration with Kanye West, "Gold Digger", in which he sung the Ray Charles-influenced hook, went straight to #1 on the Billboard Top 100, and remained there for 10 weeks straight.

The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart, as well as number three on the UK singles chart. His music career went into a higher gear when, in 2004, he was featured on rapper Twista's song, "Slow Jamz", also featuring Kanye West. In 2001, he hosted the MTV Video Music Awards. In 1994, Foxx released an album (on the Fox record label) entitled Peep This, which was only mildly successful.

Foxx is also a singer and accomplished musician. He also has a film hitting the box offices in 2007 called Damage Control. He is starring in a film version of Miami Vice, scheduled for release in 2006. Foxx was seen at many Miami Heat playoff games in the 2005 campaign.

He was nominated for his lead role in Ray, his supporting role in Collateral and for his portrayal of Stanley Williams in the television movie Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story. In recognition of his work in 2004, Foxx received an unprecedented three Golden Globe Award nominations in acting categories. Foxx also became the first black actor to have double nominations in one year. He also received a nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Collateral, making him only the tenth person to have been nominated for both acting categories in the same year.

This made him only the third African-American male actor to win the award (the other two were Sidney Poitier and Denzel Washington). Foxx's portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 film Ray earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor. He also received critical acclaim, and an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, for his role in the 2004 action film Collateral, where he played an ordinary cab driver who was hired for a night by a hitman (Tom Cruise) on a killing spree. Foxx's first prominent dramatic role came in 1999 when Oliver Stone cast him as the star quarterback in the football-based film Any Given Sunday.

Foxx's film debut came in Toys (1992) with Robin Williams. When In Living Color was ended, Foxx was given his own show, The Jamie Foxx Show, which produced 100 episodes from 1996-2001 and still reruns in syndication. In Living Color launched the careers of a number of comedians, including Jim Carrey and the Wayans brothers. Bishop changed his name to "Jamie Foxx" in order to get more opportunities to perform at comedy clubs (since he had noticed that unknown female comedians had an easier time getting booked than unknown men did, he opted for a gender-neutral alias), and he became known for his appearances on comedic TV series and perpetuation of the ebonics stereotype, particularly when he joined the cast of In Living Color during the third season.

. Foxx's early life was peppered with difficulty. Shortly after he was born, he was adopted by his grandparents Mark and Estelle Marie Talley. He is the fourth person in history to have both scored a #1 album and won an Academy Award.

He won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Ray, a biopic about the life of the late musician Ray Charles. Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967 in Terrell, Texas) is an American Academy Award winning actor, Grammy Award nominated Multi-Platinum selling R&B singer and Comedian. 2005: "Creepin'" (from So Amazing). 2005: DTP, "Georgia" (from the album Disturbing Tha Peace).

2005: Twista, "When I Get You Home" (from the album The Day After). 2005: Kanye West, "Gold Digger" (from the album Late Registration). 2005: 50 Cent, "Build You Up" (from the album The Massacre). 2004: Twista, "Slow Jamz" (from the album Kamikaze).

1). 2003: MC Lyte, "Where Home Is" (from the album Da Undaground Heat, Vol. 2005: Unpredictable #1 (3 weeks) US [Certified: Platinum]. 1995: Peep This #78 US.