Connie Kline: the Air Force veteran who raised Corinne Foxx
Connie Kline is an American retired US Air Force veteran and former schoolteacher. She is the mother of actress, model and producer Corinne Foxx, whose father is the Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx. Kline and Foxx had a brief relationship in 1993 and never married.
She has never given an interview. She has no public social media account, has never appeared on a red carpet, and stayed unidentified for more than twenty years while her daughter grew up in public.
That makes her unusual among the people written about in this category, and it also means most of what you will read about her online is guesswork.
Quick facts
| Status | |
|---|---|
| Known for | Mother of Corinne Foxx, former partner of Jamie Foxx |
| Nationality | American |
| Military service | US Air Force, reported as five years |
| Former career | Schoolteacher |
| Later career | Tax and finance |
| Relationship with Jamie Foxx | Brief, 1993. Never married. |
| Daughter | Corinne Foxx, born 15 February 1994 |
| Birth date | Disputed. See below. |
| Public statements | None on record |
Which Connie Kline are you looking for?
Search results for this name mix several different people, and at least one major site has confused two of them.
| Who | Detail |
|---|---|
| Connie Kline | Corinne Foxx’s mother. The subject of this page. |
| Connie Kline | An actress listed on IMDb with a single 1998 credit, born 29 March 1976. A different person. |
| Connie Marie Kline | A woman from Denver, Colorado, who died in 2017. Named in a published obituary. |
| Connie Kreski | American model, Playboy Playmate of the Year 1969, died 1995. Frequently confused by spelling. |
The second entry causes real problems, and we come back to it below.
What is actually documented about her
Very little, and the honest answer is that this is by her own design.
Military service
Multiple outlets report that Kline served in the United States Air Force for roughly five years and is a retired veteran. The detail traces to her own Facebook profile rather than to a published service record. She appears to have stated it herself, which makes it stronger than most claims about her.
This is the single most interesting fact about her and it is the one the aggregator profiles bury under paragraphs about her ex-boyfriend.
Teaching and later work
After her service she worked as a schoolteacher. More recently she has worked in tax and financial services.
Several sites publish the name of her business and the town she lives in. We have not, because she is a private individual who has never sought public attention, and a profile does not become more useful by telling readers where to find her.
Her relationship with Jamie Foxx
Kline met Jamie Foxx, born Eric Marlon Bishop, in 1993. He was then an emerging comedian working on In Living Color, several years before Ray and the Academy Award that followed it.
The relationship was short. Reports describe it as lasting a matter of months, though the precise dates published on some sites are not sourced to anything. They separated before or shortly after their daughter was born and never married.
Foxx has been open about why marriage was never part of his plan, and has spoken about it in general terms in interviews over the years. He has not discussed Kline herself in any detail, and neither has she.
Corinne Foxx, her daughter
Corinne Marie Bishop was born on 15 February 1994 in Los Angeles. She works professionally under her father’s stage name.
Her career
Corinne Foxx built a career independent of the family connection, though she has never pretended the connection did not help.
- She attended Sierra Canyon School, where she was a cheerleader. She appeared on the cover of American Cheerleader in 2011.
- She graduated from the University of Southern California
- The Hollywood Foreign Press Association named her Miss Golden Globe in 2016
- Her acting credits include 47 Meters Down: Uncaged and the series Dollface
- She co-hosts the Fox game show Beat Shazam with her father, and has worked as a producer
- She married Joe Hooten in 2024
The 2023 health crisis
In April 2023 Jamie Foxx suffered a serious medical emergency. Corinne handled the family’s public communications during the period and was widely credited with steering the response.
Foxx later said publicly that his sister and his daughter Corinne saved his life. He returned to the subject in his Netflix special released in December 2024.
Whatever Kline’s own contribution to raising that daughter, it is visible in the outcome, and it is the only real evidence of her parenting that exists in public.
What Jamie Foxx has said about co-parenting
Foxx addressed the arrangement in a 2021 interview with E! News, and it is one of the few on-record comments touching on Kline at all.
He described Corinne growing up conscious that her friends’ parents were married while hers were not, and then watching a number of those marriages come apart as the children got older. His point was that the structure mattered less than the stability.
Coverage consistently describes the co-parenting relationship as cordial. Neither party has ever contradicted that.
The Foxx family today
| Child | Born | Mother |
|---|---|---|
| Corinne Foxx | 1994 | Connie Kline |
| Anelise Bishop | 2008 | Kristin Grannis |
| Third child | Announced 2026 | Alyce Huckstepp |
Both of Foxx’s daughters were present during his recovery in 2023. The two mothers have taken the same approach to publicity, which is to avoid it.
How she was identified
For roughly twenty years, the identity of Corinne Foxx’s mother was genuinely unknown to the public. Foxx did not name her, Corinne did not name her, and no outlet had established it.
That ended around 2016, when a tabloid investigation identified her. She did not respond, did not give a statement, and did not start giving interviews afterwards.
Ten years on, she still has not. That is a fairly consistent position to hold under pressure.
What the internet gets wrong about Connie Kline
The pages competing for this name contradict each other on the basics, and one error is demonstrable rather than merely doubtful.
| Claim | Problem |
|---|---|
| Born 29 March 1976 | This is the birth date of a different Connie Kline, an actress with a single credit on IMDb. A major site appears to have copied it from that profile. It would also make her fifteen at the time of the relationship. |
| Born 26 March 1969 | A different site, a different date, no source for either. |
| The relationship ran precisely January to June 1993 | Presented with unusual confidence for a claim nobody attributes to anything. |
| Her height, weight and ethnicity | Published in a profile-summary box. None of it is sourced, and none of it belongs in a biography. |
| A specific net worth | No financial disclosure exists. |
The 1976 birth date is worth dwelling on. It is not a small slip. Two people share a name. One has an IMDb page with a date on it. A site copied that date across to a different woman without checking whether the resulting timeline made sense. That is the research standard operating across most of this search result.
Her net worth
No verified figure exists.
Kline has never made a financial disclosure. She worked in the Air Force, then in teaching, then in tax services, none of which produce public earnings records for an individual. Figures published for Jamie Foxx are his.
Any number attached to her name was invented to fill a heading.
Where she is now
She lives privately in California and continues to work in tax and financial services.
She has made no public statement in the decade since she was identified, does not appear at her daughter’s professional events, and maintains no public social presence. No reliable source reports more than that, and this page will not speculate past it.
FAQs
Who is Connie Kline?
A retired US Air Force veteran and former teacher. She is the mother of actress Corinne Foxx.
Was Connie Kline married to Jamie Foxx?
No. They had a brief relationship in 1993 and never married.
How many children does she have?
She has one daughter with Jamie Foxx, Corinne, born in 1994.
What did Connie Kline do in the military?
She served in the United States Air Force, reported as about five years.
How old is Connie Kline?
Her birth date is disputed. The dates circulating online come from unsourced profiles, and one belongs to a different person entirely.
Does she have a relationship with Jamie Foxx now?
They co-parented Corinne and coverage consistently describes the relationship as cordial.
Is Connie Kline on social media?
She has no public account. Profiles using her name are unverified.
What is Connie Kline’s net worth?
No figure has ever been documented.
Who are Jamie Foxx’s other children?
Anelise Bishop, born 2008 to Kristin Grannis, and a third child announced in 2026.
The short version
Connie Kline served in the Air Force, taught school, and had a short relationship with a comedian in 1993. She raised their daughter, then declined for thirty years to say a public word about any of it.
When a tabloid finally named her, she did not use the moment. She has given no interviews since. Her daughter has built a career and spoken warmly about her upbringing, which is the only evidence of Kline’s parenting that exists in public and probably the only kind she wanted.
The competing profiles fill the silence with a height, a weight, an ethnicity, a business address and a birth date lifted from a stranger with the same name. None of that tells you anything. The Air Force service does.
JacksonPadilla is a writer at Around Celebrities, covering celebrity families, relationships, biographies, and the stories behind the stars. With a focus on clear and engaging storytelling, Kole helps readers discover the people and connections beyond the spotlight.
