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
A Line of Fire
as Javier Cardona
Don Jon
as Hollywood Actor #2
The Butler
as Carter Wilson
The Weapon
as Blue
A Few Good Men
as Cpl. Carl Hammaker
Bayou Caviar
as Rodney Jones
Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace
as Balthazar
Radio
as Radio
Pearl Harbor
as Doris Miller
Boat Trip
as Jerry Robinson
Home on the Range
as Buck (voice)
Absolute Deception
as John Nelson
Sacrifice
as John Hebron
Ticking Clock
as Lewis Hicks
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
as Ben Carson
Norbit
as Deion Hughes
Chill Factor
as Arlo
As Good as It Gets
as Frank Sachs
Rat Race
as Owen Templeton
Daybreak
as Torch