Cuba Gooding Jr.
Acting
Born January 2, 1968 · 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 · 40 titles
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Daily Show
Sesame Street
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Conan
American Horror Story
Saturday Night Live
The Graham Norton Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The View
MacGyver
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Hill Street Blues
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
American Crime Story
Empire
The Last Leg
The Oscars
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
V Graham Norton
227
Entertainment Tonight
Pearl Harbor
Coming to America
Norbit
A Few Good Men
Jerry Maguire
American Gangster
Don Jon
Home on the Range
Outbreak
As Good as It Gets
Mancuso, F.B.I.
Rat Race
Boyz n the Hood
What Dreams May Come
Zoolander
The Untouchables
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
Instinct