Cuba Gooding Jr.

Acting · Born 1968-01-02 in 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 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…

Filmography

• Judgment Night as Mike Peterson
• A Few Good Men as Cpl. Carl Hammaker
• Boyz n the Hood as Tré Styles
• Pearl Harbor as Doris Miller
• Chill Factor as Arlo
• Dirty as Salim Adel
• As Good as It Gets as Frank Sachs
• The Weapon as Blue
• American Gangster as Nicky Barnes
• The Fighting Temptations as Darrin Hill