
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Born
1968-01-02
Place of birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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
Doris Miller

American Horror Story
Dominic Banks

American Gangster
Nicky Barnes

Zoolander
Cuba Gooding Jr.

Coming to America
Boy Getting Haircut

Don Jon
Hollywood Actor #2

As Good as It Gets
Frank Sachs

A Few Good Men
Cpl. Carl Hammaker

Jerry Maguire
Rod Tidwell

The Butler
Carter Wilson

Norbit
Deion Hughes

Men of Honor
Senior Chief Carl Brashear

What Dreams May Come
Albert Lewis

Outbreak
Major Salt

Selma
Fred Gray