Cuba Gooding Jr.
Born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA — Jan 02 1968
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 tw…
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Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Credits
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Sesame Street
American Horror Story
Dominic Banks
MacGyver
Billy Colton
American Crime Story
O. J. Simpson
Hill Street Blues
The Oscars
Self
Empire
Puma
227
Norbit
Deion Hughes
Pearl Harbor
Doris Miller
A Few Good Men
Cpl. Carl Hammaker
Mancuso, F.B.I.
Don Jon
Hollywood Actor #2
Coming to America
Boy Getting Haircut
Nasty Boys
Poptop
Life in a Year
Xavier
Zoolander
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Outbreak
Major Salt
A Line of Fire
Javier Cardona
American Gangster
Nicky Barnes
As Good as It Gets
Frank Sachs
Men of Honor
Senior Chief Carl Brashear
Boyz n the Hood
Tré Styles
Jerry Maguire
Rod Tidwell
Home on the Range
Buck (voice)
The Bronx Zoo
The Butler
Carter Wilson
Radio
Radio
Selma
Fred Gray
What Dreams May Come
Albert Lewis
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Ben Carson
The Untouchables
Big Time in Hollywood, Fl
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Rat Race
Owen Templeton
Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace
Balthazar
Blown Away
Bomb Squad Class Member
Machete Kills
El Camaleón 2
Boat Trip
Jerry Robinson
Snow Dogs
Ted Brooks
Gladiator
Abraham Lincoln Haines
Red Tails
Major Emanuelle Stance
Instinct
Dr. Theo Caulder
Judgment Night
Mike Peterson
The Book of Negroes
Sam Fraunces
MADtv
Self
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
(archive footage)
America | A Tribute to Heroes
Self
Chill Factor
Arlo
End Game
Agent Alex Thomas
Daybreak
Torch
Daddy Day Camp
Charlie Hinton
Shadowboxer
Mikey
The Weapon
Blue
The Fighting Temptations
Darrin Hill
Hardwired
Luke Gibson
Losing Isaiah
Eddie Hughes
Hero Wanted
Liam Case
Sacrifice
John Hebron
Welcome to Hollywood
Cuba Gooding Jr.
The Tuskegee Airmen
Billy Roberts
In the Shadows
Draven
For NYC
The Devil's Tomb
Mack
A Murder of Crows
Lawson Russell
What Love Is
Tom
Lightning Jack
Ben Doyle
Ticking Clock
Lewis Hicks
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
Self
Sing
Stanley
Summoned
Detective Callendar
Dirty
Salim Adel
Lies & Illusions
Isaac
Trading Favors
Liquor Store Clerk
Judgement
Officer Alvarez
Dog Patrol: Operation Santa Paws
Sheriff Jacobs
Freedom
Samuel
Harold
Cromer
Absolute Deception
John Nelson
Wrong Turn at Tahoe
Joshua
Linewatch
Michael Dixon
The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends
Loofah (voice)
Life of a King
Eugene Brown
A Dairy Tale
Buck (voice)
TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy
Self (archive footage)
Quantum Supremacy
Captain Marcus Monroe
Bayou Caviar
Rodney Jones
The Hit List
Jonas Arbor
The Way of War
David Wolfe
Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story
Tyree
One in the Chamber
Ray Carver
Skeletons in the Closet
Andres
Firelight
DJ
The Firing Squad
Samuel Wilson
The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
Self
Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
Self
Atlas King
Above the Break
Frank Kitner
Making Rat Race
Himself
Giving Thanks
Calvin
Break the Cycle
Double Victory: The Tuskegee Airmen at War
Narrator (voice)
Padilla
The Madness of Judge Jeremiah Doherty
Timmy Muldoon and the Search for the Shadoweyes Bandit
Shadoweyes