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Cuba Gooding Jr.

Also known as Cuba Gooding, Jr., Cuba M. Gooding Jr.

American actor

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Cuba Gooding Jr. is an American actor known for his film and television work. He is notable for winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1996 film "Jerry Maguire."

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Cuba Gooding Jr. appears in Vinony's Best Supporting Actor collection — one of 167 entries. It also appears in Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Vinony's link graph records 683 inbound references to Cuba Gooding Jr., and connects out to Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, Academy Awards and Broadway theatre.

It is catalogued under topics including 1968 births, 20th-century African-American male actors and 20th-century American male actors.

Vinony links it to 64 Wikipedia language editions.

Film & TV

The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

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,…

Known for

Quantum Supremacy — Captain Marcus Monroe2026
Atlas King2026
Dog Patrol: Operation Santa Paws — Sheriff Jacobs2025
A Line of Fire — Javier Cardona2025
The Firing Squad — Samuel Wilson2024
Skeletons in the Closet — Andres2024
TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy — Self (archive footage)2024
Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace — Balthazar2024
The Weapon — Blue2023
For NYC2020

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: New York City
Child: Mason Gooding
Father: Cuba Gooding Sr.
Sibling: Omar Gooding
Occupation: actor
Languages spoken: English language
Award: star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Image: Cuba Gooding Jr 2022 (cropped).jpg
Residence: Los Angeles

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nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Commons category: Cuba Gooding Jr.
date of birth: 1968-01-02
ethnic group: African Americans
Commons gallery: Cuba Gooding, Jr.
start of work period: 1986-00-00

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Encyclopedic overview

Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991), he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor playing a football star in Jerry Maguire (1996). His other notable films include A Few Good Men (1992), Judgment Night (1993), Lightning Jack (1994), As Good as It Gets (1997), Men of Honor (2000), Pearl Harbor (2001), Snow Dogs (2002), Radio (2003), Norbit (2007), Linewatch (2008), and he played Dr. Ben Carson in the film Gifted Hands (2009). He played in Red Tails (2012), and The Butler (2013). He has done voice acting in Home on the Range (2004) and The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007).

For his portrayal of O. J. Simpson in the FX drama series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016), he earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He also co-starred that year in the FX series American Horror Story: Roanoke (2016).

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