Actor
Cuba Gooding Jr.
January 2, 1968 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Notable work
6.9Pearl Harbor (2001)
as Dorie Miller
7.6American Gangster (2007)
as Nicky Barnes
8.1American Horror Story (2011)
as Dominic Banks
6.2Zoolander (2001)
as Cuba Gooding Jr.
6.9Coming to America (1988)
as Boy Getting Haircut
6Don Jon (2013)
as Hollywood Actor #2
7.6A Few Good Men (1992)
as Cpl. Carl Hammaker
7.4As Good as It Gets (1997)
as Frank Sachs
7Jerry Maguire (1996)
as Rod Tidwell
7.3The Butler (2013)
as Carter Wilson
5.7Norbit (2007)
as Deion Hughes
7.2What Dreams May Come (1998)
as Albert Lewis
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