Cuba Gooding Jr.
Known for Acting · 121 credits
- Born
- 1968-01-02 (age 58)
- Place of birth
- The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Cuba Mark 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 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 served as class president in three of them.
His first job as a professional entertainer was as a break-dancer performing with singer Lionel Richie at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. After high school, Gooding studied Japanese martial arts for three years, before turning his focus toward acting. Early on, he landed guest starring roles on shows like Hill Street Blues (1981) and MacGyver (1985).
His first major role was in the John Singleton's box office surprise and critical hit Boyz n the Hood (1991). He followed this success with roles in major films like A Few Good Men (1992), Lightning Jack (1994), Outbreak (1995), Men of Honor (2000), Rat Race (2001), and The Fighting Temptations (2003) in which he co-starred alongside Beyoncé Knowles.
In 1996, he was cast as an arrogant football player on the brink of a career-ending injury in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire (1996). The film was a success and earned him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. His "Show Me The Money" line in the film became a nationwide catchphrase. In 1997, he had a notable supporting role in As Good As It Gets (1997). The next several years, his films were inconsistently successful; Boat Trip (2002), Norbit (2007), and Daddy Day Camp (2007), all of which had received extremely negative reviews and performed poorly at the box office.
Known For
TV Shows (31)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Conan
2010
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
American Horror Story
2011
as Dominic Banks
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
as Self
Sesame Street
1969
The View
1997
as Self
MacGyver
1985
as Billy Colton / Ray Collins
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
Hill Street Blues
1981
Empire
2015
as Puma
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Last Leg
2013
as Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
American Crime Story
2016
as O. J. Simpson
The Oscars
1953
as Self
227
1985
V Graham Norton
2002
as Self
Entertainment Tonight
1981
as Self
The Bronx Zoo
1987
The Untouchables
1993
Mancuso, F.B.I.
1989
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016
as Self
The Book of Negroes
2015
as Sam Fraunces
Nasty Boys
1990
as Poptop
MADtv
1995
as Self
Big Time in Hollywood, Fl
2015
as Cuba Gooding Jr.
Lily Allen and Friends
2008
as Self - Guest
Movies (90)
Pearl Harbor
2001
as Dorie Miller
Norbit
2007
as Deion Hughes
American Gangster
2007
as Nicky Barnes
Don Jon
2013
as Hollywood Actor #2
Outbreak
1995
as Major Salt
A Few Good Men
1992
as Cpl. Carl Hammaker
Men of Honor
2000
as Senior Chief Carl Brashear
Coming to America
1988
as Boy Getting Haircut
Jerry Maguire
1996
as Rod Tidwell
A Line of Fire
2025
as Javier Cardona
Home on the Range
2004
as Buck (voice)
Zoolander
2001
as Cuba Gooding Jr.
Boyz n the Hood
1991
as Tré Styles
The Butler
2013
as Carter Wilson
The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends
2007
as Loofah (voice)
What Dreams May Come
1998
as Albert Lewis
As Good as It Gets
1997
as Frank Sachs
Rat Race
2001
as Owen Templeton
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
2009
as Ben Carson
Machete Kills
2013
as El Camaleón 2
Life in a Year
2020
as Xavier
Gladiator
1992
as Abraham Lincoln Haines
Radio
2003
as Radio
Blown Away
1994
as Bomb Squad Class Member
Boat Trip
2002
as Jerry Robinson
Snow Dogs
2002
as Ted Brooks
Red Tails
2012
as Major Emanuelle Stance
Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace
2024
as Balthazar
Instinct
1999
as Dr. Theo Caulder
Judgment Night
1993
as Mike Peterson
America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001
as Self
Selma
2014
as Fred Gray
Losing Isaiah
1995
as Eddie Hughes
The Devil's Tomb
2009
as Mack
Life of a King
2013
as Eugene Brown
Chill Factor
1999
as Arlo
Hero Wanted
2008
as Liam Case
Ticking Clock
2011
as Lewis Hicks
Daddy Day Camp
2007
as Charlie Hinton
Hardwired
2009
as Luke Gibson
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
as Billy Roberts
What Love Is
2007
as Tom
Daybreak
1993
as Torch
The Fighting Temptations
2003
as Darrin Hill
End Game
2006
as Agent Alex Thomas
The Weapon
2023
as Blue
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
as (archive footage)
Welcome to Hollywood
2000
as Cuba Gooding Jr.
Dirty
2005
as Salim Adel
Shadowboxer
2005
as Mikey
The Hit List
2011
as Jonas Arbor
Wrong Turn at Tahoe
2009
as Joshua
Quantum Supremacy
2026
as Captain Marcus Monroe
One in the Chamber
2012
as Ray Carver
Harold
2008
as Cromer
Lies & Illusions
2009
as Isaac
Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story
1992
as Tyree
Making Rat Race
2002
as Himself
Linewatch
2008
as Michael Dixon
A Murder of Crows
1999
as Lawson Russell
Judgement
1992
as Officer Alvarez
Trading Favors
1997
as Liquor Store Clerk
Sing
1989
as Stanley
Freedom
2014
as Samuel
Absolute Deception
2013
as John Nelson
Lightning Jack
1994
as Ben Doyle
TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Sacrifice
2011
as John Hebron
In the Shadows
2001
as Draven
Bayou Caviar
2018
as Rodney Jones
The Way of War
2009
as David Wolfe
Timmy Muldoon and the Search for the Shadoweyes Bandit
2013
as Shadoweyes
Skeletons in the Closet
2024
as Andres
Dog Patrol: Operation Santa Paws
2025
as Sheriff Jacobs
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007
as Self
Firelight
2012
as DJ
The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'
2011
as Self
Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend
2003
as Self
For NYC
2020
Giving Thanks
as Calvin
Summoned
2013
as Detective Callendar
A Dairy Tale
2004
as Buck (voice)
Break the Cycle
The Firing Squad
2024
as Samuel Wilson
Atlas King
Above the Break
as Frank Kitner
Lotus
Padilla
The Madness of Judge Jeremiah Doherty
Double Victory: The Tuskegee Airmen at War
2012
as Narrator (voice)
About Cuba Gooding Jr.
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… With 121 credits spanning from 1953 to 2026, Cuba Gooding Jr. has appeared in 90 films and 31 TV shows.
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- Pearl Harbor (2001) — as Dorie Miller
- Norbit (2007) — as Deion Hughes
- American Gangster (2007) — as Nicky Barnes
- Don Jon (2013) — as Hollywood Actor #2
- Outbreak (1995) — as Major Salt
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