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person_profile-Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cuba Gooding Jr. Age: 57

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Date of Birth:

Jan 02, 1968

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Cuba Gooding Jr.

    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 his mother and attended four different high schools: North Hollywood High School, Tustin High School, Apple Valley High School, and John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills in Los Angeles. He served as class president in three of them.

    His first job as a professional entertainer was as a break-dancer performing with singer Lionel Richie at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. After high school, Gooding studied Japanese martial arts for three years, before turning his focus toward acting. Early on, he landed guest starring roles on shows like Hill Street Blues (1981) and MacGyver (1985).

    His first major role was in the John Singleton's box office surprise and critical hit Boyz n the Hood (1991). He followed this success with roles in major films like A Few Good Men (1992), Lightning Jack (1994), Outbreak (1995), Men of Honor (2000), Rat Race (2001), and The Fighting Temptations (2003) in which he co-starred alongside Beyoncé Knowles.

    In 1996, he was cast as an arrogant football player on the brink of a career-ending injury in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire (1996). The film was a success and earned him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. His "Show Me The Money" line in the film became a nationwide catchphrase. In 1997, he had a notable supporting role in As Good As It Gets (1997). The next several years, his films were inconsistently successful; Boat Trip (2002), Norbit (2007), and Daddy Day Camp (2007), all of which had received extremely negative reviews and performed poorly at the box office.

    Gooding also starred in a film titled A Murder of Crows, which he co-produced with his long time friend and business partner Derek Broes. The film was Gooding's first attempt at producing.  Since then, he has had series of starring roles in grittier films released direct-to-DVD such as the revenge dramas Hero Wanted and Wrong Turn at Tahoe, as well as the sci-fi action pic Hardwired and the action comedy Lies & Illusions.

    A well-received performance as Ben Carson in Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009) and a small supporting role in Ridley Scott's American Gangster (2007) both proved to be exceptions to this trend. An appearance in the World War II film, Red Tails, produced by George Lucas and with other prominent actors such as Terrence Howard, will mark his only return to the big screen since American Gangster.

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Filmography of

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Found 74 Movies in total

... 2024

The Firing Squad

Samuel Wilson ( Actor )

... 2024

... 2024

TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2024

Skeletons in the Closet

Andres ( Actor )

... 2024

The Weapon

Blue ( Actor )

... 2023

Life in a Year

Xavier ( Actor )

... 2020

Bayou Caviar

Rodney Jones ( Actor )

Writer

... 2018

Selma

Fred Gray ( Actor )

... 2014

Freedom

Samuel ( Actor )

... 2014

Machete Kills

El Camaleon ( Actor )

... 2013

Don Jon

Hollywood Actor #2 ( Actor )

... 2013

The Butler

Carter Wilson ( Actor )

... 2013

Life of a King

Eugene ( Actor )

... 2013

Absolute Deception

John Nelson ( Actor )

... 2013

Summoned

Detective Callendar ( Actor )

... 2013

One in the Chamber

Ray Carver ( Actor )

... 2012

Firelight

DJ ( Actor )

... 2012

Red Tails

Major Emanuelle Stance ( Actor )

... 2012

... 2012

Sacrifice

John Hebron ( Actor )

... 2011

The Hit List

Jonas Arbor ( Actor )

... 2011

Ticking Clock

Lewis Hicks ( Actor )

... 2011

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

archival footage ( Actor )

... 2010

Wrong Turn at Tahoe

Joshua ( Actor )

... 2009

Hardwired

Luke Gibson ( Actor )

... 2009

Lies & Illusions

Isaac ( Actor )

... 2009

The Devil's Tomb

Mack ( Actor )

... 2009

The Way of War

David Wolfe ( Actor )

... 2009

... 2009

Linewatch

Michael Dixon ( Actor )

... 2008

Harold

Cromer ( Actor )

... 2008

Hero Wanted

Liam Case ( Actor )

... 2008

... 2007

American Gangster

Nicky Barnes ( Actor )

... 2007

Daddy Day Camp

Charlie Hinton ( Actor )

... 2007

What Love Is

Tom ( Actor )

... 2007

Norbit

Deion Hughes ( Actor )

... 2007

End Game

Alex Thomas ( Actor )

... 2006

Dirty

Salim Adel ( Actor )

... 2006

Shadowboxer

Mikey ( Actor )

... 2005

Home on the Range

Buck (voice) ( Actor )

... 2004

Radio

Radio ( Actor )

... 2003

The Fighting Temptations

Darrin Hill ( Actor )

... 2003

... 2003

Boat Trip

Jerry Robinson ( Actor )

... 2002

Snow Dogs

Ted Brooks ( Actor )

... 2002

Zoolander

Cuba Gooding Jr. ( Actor )

... 2001

... 2001

Rat Race

Owen Templeton ( Actor )

... 2001

In the Shadows

Draven ( Actor )

... 2001

Pearl Harbor

Doris Miller ( Actor )

... 2001

Men of Honor

Senior Chief Carl Brashear ( Actor )

... 2000

Chill Factor

Arlo ( Actor )

... 1999

A Murder of Crows

Lawson Russell ( Actor )

Producer

... 1999

Instinct

Dr. Theo Caulder ( Actor )

... 1999

What Dreams May Come

Albert Lewis ( Actor )

... 1998

Welcome to Hollywood

Cuba Gooding Jr. ( Actor )

... 1998

As Good as It Gets

Frank Sachs ( Actor )

... 1997

Trading Favors

Liquor Store Clerk ( Actor )

... 1997

Jerry Maguire

Rod Tidwell ( Actor )

... 1996

The Tuskegee Airmen

Billy Roberts ( Actor )

... 1995

Losing Isaiah

Eddie Hughes ( Actor )

... 1995

Outbreak

Major Salt ( Actor )

... 1995

Blown Away

Bomb Squad Class Member ( Actor )

... 1994

Lightning Jack

Ben Doyle ( Actor )

... 1994

Judgment Night

Mike Peterson ( Actor )

... 1993

Daybreak

Torch ( Actor )

... 1993

A Few Good Men

Cpl. Carl Hammaker ( Actor )

... 1992

Judgement

Officer Alvarez ( Actor )

... 1992

Gladiator

Abraham Lincoln Haines ( Actor )

... 1992

Boyz n the Hood

Tré Styles ( Actor )

... 1991

Sing

Stanley ( Actor )

... 1989

Coming to America

Boy Getting Haircut ( Actor )

... 1988