Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1/2/1968
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Biography
Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Emmy nomination.
He was born in Bronx, New York to Shirley, a singer with the Sweethearts, and Cuba Gooding, Sr., a lead vocalist of soul group The Main Ingredient. He has two brothers, musician Tommy Gooding and fellow actor Omar Gooding, and sister, April Gooding. His family moved to Los Angeles after Gooding Sr.'s music group had a hit single with "Everybody Plays the Fool" in 1972 but abandoned his family two years later. Gooding Jr. was raised by...
Known For
Pearl Harbor
as Doris Miller
Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace
as Balthazar
A Line of Fire
as Javier Cardona
Norbit
as Deion Hughes
Home on the Range
as Buck (voice)
Don Jon
as Hollywood Actor #2
American Gangster
as Nicky Barnes
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
as Ben Carson
Coming to America
as Boy Getting Haircut
Jerry Maguire
as Rod Tidwell
Skeletons in the Closet
as Andres
The Butler
as Carter Wilson
A Few Good Men
as Cpl. Carl Hammaker
Boyz n the Hood
as Tré Styles
Life in a Year
as Xavier
Radio
as Radio
Zoolander
as Cuba Gooding Jr.
As Good as It Gets
as Frank Sachs
Rat Race
as Owen Templeton
Dog Patrol: Operation Santa Paws
as Sheriff Jacobs