Ray (film)

Ray (2004) is an independent American musical biographical film chronicling the storied life and career of legendary blues musician Ray Charles. Written, produced and directed by Taylor Hackford, "Ray" stars Jamie Foxx in the title role, along with Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell, Harry Lennix, Terrence Howard, Larenz Tate, Richard Schiff, and Regina King. 
Charles himself had planned to attend an opening of the completed film, but died of liver disease in June, several months before its premiere.
==Plot==
The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s. The film touches on his brother's drowning death at a young age, and how it haunted him throughout his life, as well as his struggles with drugs, alcohol, racial issues in the civil rights era, and love interests.
==Cast==
*Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles
**C. J. Sanders as Young Ray Robinson
*Sharon Warren as Ray Charles' mother, Aretha Robinson
*Kerry Washington as Della Bea Robinson
*Regina King as Margie Hendricks
*Renee Wilson as Pat Lyle
*Larenz Tate as Quincy Jones
*Harry Lennix as Joe Adams
*Clifton Powell as Jeff Brown
*Curtis Armstrong as Ahmet Ertegun
*Richard Schiff as Jerry Wexler
*Kurt Fuller as Sam Clark
*Richard A. Smith as Til
*Patrick Bauchau as Dr. Hacker
*Terrence Dashon Howard as Gossie McKee
*Chris Thomas King as Lowell Fulson
*Wendell Pierce as Wilbur Brassfield
*Tequan Richmond as Ray Charles, Jr
*Bokeem Woodbine as David "Fathead" Newman
*Aunjanue Ellis as Mary Ann Fisher
*Denise Dowse as Marlene Andres
*Warwick Davis as Oberon
*David Krumholtz as Milt Shaw
*Johnny O'Neal as Art Tatum
*Rick Gomez as Tom Dowd
==Awards==
Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as well as the Golden Globe, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild and Critics' Choice awards, becoming the second actor to win all five major lead actor awards for the same performance, and the only one to win the Golden Globe in the Musical or Comedy (rather than the Drama) category.
==Images==
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==References==
Category:2004
Category:2004 films
Category:2004 in film
Category:Biographical films
Category:American biographical films
Category:American films
Category:American drama films
Category:Biography
Category:Drama
Category:Music
Category:Films based on actual events
Category:Rated PG-13